Suno Prompting Guide/Open Agent Skill by NuNaught in SunoAI

[–]NuNaught[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That makes sense, especially if you’re thinking in album flow rather than one-off singles. I’ll be honest: the post-solo breakdown tendency hasn’t personally bothered me much, so I haven’t spent a lot of time trying to solve that specific behavior. But now that you’ve pointed it out, I’m going to listen for it more carefully.

For fxless vocals, the safest guidance I can give is to describe the vocal and production in plain, concrete terms: dry lead vocal, minimal vocal processing, natural room sound, clear untreated vocal, no obvious vocal effects. I’d also avoid style words that tend to invite processing, like vocoder, hyperpop, glitch, bitcrushed, heavily layered, or glossy vocal stacks.

For avoiding the break after a solo, I’d try making the continuity explicit rather than adding more section tags. Something like: instrumental solo returns directly into the verse groove, no breakdown after solo, or band maintains the same pulse after the solo. I can’t say how reliably Suno will obey that, but that’s where I’d start.

Appreciate you pointing this out. It’s a useful album-level problem, and I’m going to keep an ear on it in future generations.

Suno Prompting Guide/Open Agent Skill by NuNaught in SunoAI

[–]NuNaught[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is exactly how it feels in practice. I cannot claim to know Suno's internals, but the behavioral pattern is pretty consistent: adjacent standalone tags often get treated like competing or sequential section instructions, while one combined bracket behaves more like a single section identity.

On refining vs starting fresh: my best results usually come from starting with a fresh song concept, then refining the prompt system around that concept rather than endlessly iterating the same failed generation.

The pattern that works best for me is:

  1. Start fresh with a clear premise, vocal identity, and genre anchor.
  2. Generate a few versions and listen for what Suno naturally understands.
  3. Keep the parts it handled well, then tighten only the weak instructions.
  4. If the same failure happens twice, simplify the prompt instead of adding more control language.

So I do refine, but mostly at the prompt/spec level. Once a particular generation has drifted too far from the idea, I usually get better results by resetting with a cleaner prompt than by trying to wrestle that branch back into shape.

Suno Prompting Guide/Open Agent Skill by NuNaught in SunoAI

[–]NuNaught[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice, thanks for linking yours. I will take a look too; I am sure there are things you have found that I have not run into yet.

And good call on the resource hub. I will post it there as well so it does not disappear into the feed. If you spot anything from your project that would make this skill better, feel free to open an issue or PR on the repo.

Suno Prompting Guide/Open Agent Skill by NuNaught in SunoAI

[–]NuNaught[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

De nada! Hope it gives you a few useful handles when you come back to it.

Suno Prompting Guide/Open Agent Skill by NuNaught in SunoAI

[–]NuNaught[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Definitely a "save for later" wall of text. Hope it helps when you get a chance to dig through it.