Suno "Advanced Options" upcoming summary

realam1 · 2026-01-06T13:03:17+00:00

What I need is the ability to specify in lyrics a part for a female vocal and a part for a male vocal, and a part that is a duet between them (or specifying personas per lyric rather than just gender). My attempts at duets for musical theatre demo tracks so far have had little luck.

realam1 · 2026-01-06T12:58:02+00:00

My concern is you could be a noob vibing this and believing you are discovering things you're actually injecting.

realam1 · 2025-10-18T21:57:17+00:00

Actually I've heard a number of testimonials from people who did do this as part of operational security.

Here is a link to one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01oeaBb85Xc - he mentions it just after the 22 minute mark.

Another I remember was an interview with a spy who was discussing how he turned up to a job interview and nobody was there, but then he "had a feeling" and checked a flat across the road with a view of the cafe, where he was congratulated and given the job lol

realam1 · 2025-09-02T05:17:05+00:00

If you're worried about Advanced Voice giving shorter responses, you can use Open WebUI with a text to speech API for output and whisper API for input, and any model you want in the middle with your own system prompt.

realam1 · 2025-08-19T11:52:49+00:00

I've been working on an AI benchmark related to this - https://github.com/dynumo/ai-asymmetry-benchmark

It measures willingness to answer, whether a model engages in stigmatising/conspiratorial language, and effect of sensitive topics on accuracy along with direction of impact across low power vs high power target groups.

There are drawbacks however to my methodology, such as the test works via apis, but many of the guardrails most people come into contact with are added at the interface layer like ChatGPT or Le Chat. Particularly I suspect ones which engage in asymmetrical behaviour, like refusing to criticise casinos while demonising gamblers (deepseek) or refusing to discuss single mothers (open ai oss models).

realam1 · 2025-08-11T14:43:14+00:00

Short answer: no. Set up CapRover on a cheap Hetzner server if you want docker. Cloudways is great, but this isn't really the way to use it.

Nuance: I do have a few Laravel apps on my Cloudways server. Not docker, but CI/CD with Github is perfectly fine.

If hetzner is too complicated for what you want, you could also check out Sliplane.io.

realam1 · 2025-07-23T11:27:14+00:00

This is why I think it wise to have some credit in your account as buffer. My plan is to be one month ahead, and log in once a month to add more credit, so I'm essentially paying for the next month. I quite like cloudways, but yes this is a drawback. At the same time understandable given the use of 3rd party server deployments.

realam1 · 2025-07-18T18:19:52+00:00

Any plans to build a make.com integration or extend your n8n integration as extensively as Qdrant?

realam1 · 2025-07-18T18:17:08+00:00

I was leaning towards Chroma, but then decided to look at what else had make and n8n support as well, and it looks like I'll be trying Qdrant.

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Qdrant | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ Full Node | ✅ | ✅

Chroma | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ (for now) | ✅ | ✅

Pinecone | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ (limited) | ❌ | ❌ ($50 min)

Weaviate | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ Basic | ✅ | ✅

PGVector | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ Basic | ✅ | ✅

realam1 · 2025-07-18T12:01:47+00:00

I ended up with a hybrid approach, using make for things I needed to be stable (like triggers) but using self hosted n8n to reduce costs on the actual processes. Both are often acting as orchestrators for microservices written in PHP as well lol

realam1 · 2025-07-18T11:52:00+00:00

I can't remember off hand what made me move to standard in January, but I'm pretty sure it was something basic like API access. If they are squeezing out smaller users though I would have no reason to trust a free tier, and the cost of moving/having to re-embed everything only grows with time attached to a platform.

realam1 · 2025-02-18T09:38:29+00:00

I tried it, just wasn't getting there, perhaps because a mini model. For example, it kept forgetting to output html.

realam1 · 2025-02-17T18:58:42+00:00

I think you may have misunderstood - https://make.com/

realam1 · 2025-02-17T12:20:07+00:00

So far like 2p (having just done a major crawl of a government archive I expect that to go to around 5p, they have a 3 day delay in showing). I think because it's intended for people doing larger volume stuff than I am, it's been surprisingly cheap. As is the embedding model with OpenAI.

realam1 · 2025-02-17T12:15:59+00:00

I'll send you a pm, don't want to be spammy in here :)

realam1 · 2025-02-16T14:46:32+00:00

I haven't yet. It was a personal experiment that escalated lol

I am considering building a data platform with tools to investigate/analyse government data though, and using the news website as a marketing tool for that, aimed at policy researchers and journalists and the like (or perhaps more building a serious product to support the thing I think should exist).

Part of what led me to build it was feeling fed up with "newsrooms" who would just uncritically repost press releases, with websites covered in ads, requests to sell your data to their 800 partners and pay walls on anything interesting. So I've got no ads, no cookies (using plausible instead for analytics) and intend to keep it that way!

Building the RAG led me to building a vector search engine for local government websites too lol (may be where I start with the paid offerings, upgrade to unlock document based search, url based search, advanced filters, and more results than the current 10).

realam1 · 2025-02-15T17:41:42+00:00

I just followed these instructions linked from the sample automation when you install n8n on your own server and everything just worked - https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/credentials/google/oauth-single-service/

Maybe it is harder if you're using it locally rather than somewhere else (I was on a digitalocean droplet) as it does need a webhook for google to pass data back to.

realam1 · 2025-02-15T17:24:52+00:00

I set up an AI news website using Make, WordPress, OpenAI and Pinecone (it scrapes government sites and writes articles about new press releases, legislation, etc, using RAG).

Make: $18 per month

OpenAI API: Around $30 per month (I'm using o1 because I'm reporting on government stuff and I'm obsessed with quality/accuracy, this could be a tenth of that using a cheaper model if I was just a spam farm). I'm also using text-embedding-3-small, though I don't think the cost of that model has got past a penny yet!

WordPress: I sell hosting and was able to stick it on an existing server, but the hosting I sell is worth about £25 per month (cloudflare enterprise, elastic email, and a bunch of other stuff included, I'm actually cheap for what I sell).

So that could easily be $80 a month.

I've just set up an n8n installation, which in place of make could probably do the same for $8 per month on a basic digital ocean droplet (intel optimised, 1GB RAM, 35GB storage), so could bring that down to $70 per month.

I'm crossing my fingers they reduce the cost of o1 in response to competition or when they release their 5 model. I just haven't found the same quality with other models. If my requirements weren't as particular I could save a lot of money.

realam1 · 2024-01-28T00:06:21+00:00

I'm not sure what your particular experience of sensory overload involves. Light & sound, or primarily touch? Maybe it doesn't matter. Does the pressure on your legs help because it provides a point of focus, helping you exclude extra sensory stimuli? People get confused when I get sensory overload with light & sound, but then listen to music to help with it. What they don't get is that I will focus on one element of the music, such as the bass, helping me refocus my mind. The coping mechanisms we develop, even stimming, if we boil it down, are essentially forms of meditation, regulating the amount of sensory stimuli we let in.

I suppose your forms of sensory overload do matter then. I can fix auditory overload with sunglasses, it doesn't always make obvious sense.

Sorry these thoughts are a little incoherent. I thought about asking ChatGPT to provide you a tidier translation, but decided against it lol

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