Glossary

The words the writer and this guide use, in the order you meet them.

Patch: One complete result: the three Suno boxes (Lyrics, Style of Music, Exclude styles), the slider settings, and an analysis of the piece.
Engine: What writes the patch. The song engine sets lyrics as a sung, dark, electronic pop song; the track engine builds an instrumental-first electronic track from a brief. How the writer picks one.
Brief: A few words about a mood, a place or a scene, as opposed to lyrics. A brief makes a track.
Knob: Any control in the writer that changes the patch.
Family: One of 12 song genres, from minimal art-pop to futurepop. Picking one makes a song.
Style: One of 103 electronic genres in 25 scenes, from Berlin techno to liquid drum & bass. Picking one makes a track.
Flavour: A sub-type of a style, for the seven styles that cover several scenes. Flavours.
Era: The decade a track sounds like, from the 1980s to the 2020s. Eras.
Arc: The energy shape of the piece over time: where it builds, peaks and drops.
Seed: The number that selects one variation. The same text, knobs and seed always give the same patch; another seed gives a sibling.
Layer: One part of a patch you can reroll on its own. Arrangement: sections and the energy path. Sound: instruments, groove, textures and mix. Wording: the words in the tags and the spoken lines. Each has its own seed; 0 follows the main seed. Style, BPM, key and voice stay with the main seed.
Mutation: 0–100: how far the patch may drift from its family or style. At 0 it draws only from its own palette; higher values borrow from neighbouring ones.
Tag density: 1–5, from bare to maximal: how much detail the section tags in the Lyrics box carry.
Hook and topline: The hook is the phrase a track sings; the topline is the shape in which it is sung, from a single chant to every stanza. Hooks.
Variation bank: Eight sibling patches from the same text and knobs, side by side, to compare and pick from.
Library: The patches you saved, kept in this browser. Rate them after trying them in Suno.
Taste: A lean on what Auto picks, learned from your ratings: families and styles you rated well come up more often.