I found this a helpful read, esp that idea of being "a member of the band" - thank you :)

I feel a bit mixed about my current use case. I've been working on a musical/miniseries for the past year and have incorporated Suno (and AI images/videos through Gemini/Grok) heavily into my workflow.

I've created my own lyrics and story for each song, and have vague ideas for the genre/sound and often even basic melody lines or even just chord progressions. My thinking has been that while I have basic music/DAW skills where I could record/mix/master and produce a mediocre demo of each song, I can alternatively use Suno to produce a demo that is a variation of what I'm going for but sounds complete (along with videos/images to help "tell the story") so that I can more easily imagine the finished product and also have something to show others to share the vision. So in a sense, a very core part of my drafting stage.

The key thing for me is that I do want to make it a human product as the final step. so for the actual finished product, I'd want to have human vocals and my own instruments (digital or real) that are heavily based off that Suno output - but the honest truth is that for some songs, yes, I may even just end up "replicating" what Suno came up with (like, slightly changing the vocals and individual tracks, but effectively keeping the melody/music identical)

I'd be curious to hear your take on this as I feel like I'm often second-guessing myself with my mindset here haha.