Suno v6 · lyrics or a brief → custom-mode patch

Writer

Lyrics or a poem make a sung song, a brief of a few words an instrumental track. Every patch is a function of your text and a seed. How it works

Lyrics or brief

Example text

Without an account you can try the examples with any style, arc and the first eight seeds. to use your own text and every knob.

Knobs
What these do: style, shape, voice and variation
Style
Auto lets the text decide: lyrics make a song, a brief a track. A family makes a dark-pop song, a style an electronic track.
Flavour
A sub-type of the style, for the seven styles that cover several scenes.
Era
The decade the track sounds like. Auto reads a year or decade in the first line of the brief.
Arc
The energy shape over time: where the piece builds, peaks and drops.
Vocals
Who sings, and how. A track stays instrumental unless its style or this knob asks for spoken words, chops or a sung topline.
Topline
How much of the text a track sings: one phrase, a two-line loop, or whole verses.
Hook
The phrase the track sings. Blank picks one from your text; the suggestions are the phrases that sing best.
Delivery
Dense, rhyming sections are rapped unless you set this to always sung. Always spoken speaks every section.
Target length
Sets the bar counts of the arrangement sheet, so Suno writes a full club track instead of a short loop.
BPM
Blank takes the style's usual tempo. BPM and key go first in the Style box.
Seed
Picks one variation. The same text, knobs and seed always give the same patch; Reroll tries another.
Mutation
How far the patch may drift from its style: 0 stays in its own palette, higher values borrow from neighbouring ones.
Tag density
How much detail the section tags in the Lyrics box carry, from bare to maximal.

More in the guide: two engines, tracks, glossary.

Layers · reroll one part, keep the rest
What these do: change one part of the patch only
Arrangement
The sections, their order and length, and the energy path.
Sound
Instruments, groove, textures and mix.
Wording
The words in the tags, and the spoken lines of a track.

Each layer has its own seed; 0 follows the main seed. Style, BPM, key and voice stay with the main seed. Glossary: layer

Tag sheet
What these do: what the Lyrics box carries besides your words
CAPS
Suno sings capitals louder, so only the one line at the energy peak is set in capitals.
(backing vocals)
Words in parentheses are sung as echoes and answers.
[adlibs]
Short calls inside a line, in the families that use them.
Bar counts
Each section tag names its length, such as [Drop | 32 bars].
Lock key
Names the key next to the BPM in the Style box, so sections from different takes fit together.
*atmosphere cues*
Sound effects between asterisks, which Suno plays and does not sing.
[End]
Tells Suno where the piece ends, so it does not trail on. It works most of the time, not always.
Library ratings
Auto favours the families and styles you rated well in your library.

Guide: the typography Suno reads

live · regenerates as you type

Patch

Suno's sliders and switches for this patch. Set them before you create.

How the energy moves through the piece, and checks against Suno's limits. A check that names a line selects it in your text.

Energy per section

Sections

Checks