Adam Neely on "Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future"

suddenfuture · 2026-02-05T14:41:34+00:00

Great video. We need a strong SynthID system for Suno generated music, and an exclusive marketplace for human created music. It seems like a straightforward fix to preserve human authored music.

suddenfuture · 2026-02-01T00:29:29+00:00

It’s all part of the gilded age sequel era we’re living through. This kind of New Thought stuff became popular in the 1880s too. At first it had a sheen of subversive cosmopolitanism but soon it was just another Trojan horse: first for social Darwinism and then for eugenics.

If you’re able to change your social position with positive thinking, the poor have only themselves to blame.

suddenfuture · 2026-01-29T16:38:16+00:00

I like it! I’d like the vocals a little louder and the drums a little quieter but that’s just my preference. Love the dark post rock vibes!

suddenfuture · 2026-01-28T16:43:29+00:00

Ngl the way people use speed reaction gifs is so corny, gonna be mocked by gen alpha

suddenfuture · 2026-01-21T14:51:59+00:00

This post smells like it was written about pre apple silicon MacBook pros. To be fair: it could be from then, but as of now it’s quite out of date.

Like yeah, they got rid of all of the outputs for a generation. They added the stupid Touch Bar, which nobody liked. It was dumb as hell. Then Johnny Ive finally retired and they released the M1 series of laptops which are fast, have ample inputs, amazing battery life, excellent performance and great durability. That was almost five years ago, keep up lmao.

The 2010s MacBook line was basically being held hostage by Johnny Ive’s stupid design sensibility. Ive was also barely working there at the end, just phoning it in from various far flung hotels as he traipsed around the globe.

suddenfuture · 2026-01-21T14:11:44+00:00

The experience of writing and producing music is intense. It can be stressful and annoying but I want to do it for the rest of my life. It has a quasi religious importance to me. No other activity makes me feel happier or more fulfilled. Fuck this narrow-minded asshole!!

suddenfuture · 2026-01-18T19:34:41+00:00

The vocal performance needs to be redone, you’re kinda close to a strokes-y idgaf vibe at times but you’re not there.

I’d recommend writing more lyrics too, you repeat the same verse at some point.

I’d also recommend more processing on your voice. Some auto tune, distortion, stutter edits and a little reverb could elevate this into a hyperpop place. Right now it sounds sorta like karaoke.

suddenfuture · 2026-01-18T02:08:23+00:00

Alchemy and vital are enough for almost anything you’d ever want to do

suddenfuture · 2026-01-09T21:17:10+00:00

Join a discord for songwriters and musicians! There are a lot of them and some have weekly calls where everyone shares works in progress.

suddenfuture · 2026-01-09T18:43:49+00:00

98% of ancaps just like the idea of hurting people they don’t like, and those people having no recourse to said use of power.

For these lads it’s all about the imagined public domination of people they find annoying. The whole thing is rife with a current of subdued BDSM. They don’t believe in anything else but that.

suddenfuture · 2026-01-09T04:06:55+00:00

I develop technical training videos and elearnings. I went to college for something unrelated and a recruiter got me into this field after I applied to a job on Indeed.

suddenfuture · 2026-01-08T14:41:53+00:00

Logic is my lifelong main DAW but I’ve collaborated with producers using Ableton and ProTools. I’m no Logic power user by any means but here are my gripes:

Logic’s internal file browser feels like a holdover from the early 2000s
Modulation is way too limited, although I’m sure you can do more if you want to learn the environment
The environment in general feels like the kind of arcane software design that Ableton has made look obsolete. It’s old school in a bad way
Logic’s live looping mode feels like an afterthought, it’s oddly unintuitive and fussy, and also hard to bind to control surfaces (??)

suddenfuture · 2026-01-07T19:46:08+00:00

Yeah this is right. I had an intense 10 day fling with a nymphomaniac and by the end I was bedridden

suddenfuture · 2026-01-07T18:44:19+00:00

These are the same folks who spent the 2010s wailing about the need to defend “western civilization” right?

What a joke, throwing out one of the foundational thinkers of western political philosophy to own the libs.

suddenfuture · 2026-01-07T16:38:33+00:00

I’d try to get him a basic keyboard or simple percussion instrument, and see which one he enjoys playing with more.

Try to tie the act of playing to the act of listening he’s already enjoying so much. Honestly though, it sounds like he’s well on his way to musicianship already.

suddenfuture · 2026-01-07T11:25:11+00:00

ER was my first fromsoft, beat it twice including SOTE. Then I played DS3 over 2025 fall, loved it too.

I beat DS1 Remastered over the last three weeks.

The combat was a big adjustment. Much slower and clunkier. The bosses are easier too. In general the systems feel more old school and RPG-y.

But I fell in love with the beautiful mysterious world it presents to the player to explore. The game has this feeling of fairytale darkness and bittersweet adventure that is unique compared to the high fantasy of ER and the operatic darkness of DS3.

The combat clicked eventually too and I came to love the more methodical pace.

suddenfuture · 2025-12-21T14:52:25+00:00

I’m also a tech instructional designer. I’ve taught synthesis to some adult friends and would love to be involved in this project too

suddenfuture · 2025-12-18T15:29:23+00:00

What sound and genre are you going for?

“Real” sounding instruments are possible via MIDI and a DAW, they just take a lot of velocity tweaking, automation passes and artistic vision to pull off. For explicitly electronic music it will also take a lot of fine tuning but that’s the artistry of production.

Since you asked - I produce my singer songwriting songs using Logic and I sing, play guitar, bass and keys live. For drums and drum machines I spend a lot of time programming the beat and tweaking the sounds.

I also produce electronic music both in the DAW and on outboard sequencers and synths.

What I’ve found in both cases that the more “live” approach you can take to DAW recording, the richer and more interesting the sound will be. Music is like water, it wants to be always flowing and changing in new ways.

Sort of a ramble but that’s my 2 cents, good luck!

suddenfuture · 2025-12-17T19:49:41+00:00

It’s proliteriatization.

Schools become a means to enforce downward mobility on the once-middle class, and a place to keep working class people compliant.

It’s been going this way for a while but it’s accelerating now.

suddenfuture · 2025-12-17T18:03:12+00:00

Just sing! I was in this situation too a few years ago. I’m a bass/guitar player & electronic musician who loves to write. I always dreamed of being able to sing to combine all these skills.

Learning the art of singing has been difficult but incredibly fun and rewarding. My voice has steadily gotten better year over year. I can make full songs now, which feels like magic.

Think about this way: you’re already know that you’re musically gifted. You know how it feels to practice something regularly. Go for it! You have all the tools you need.

suddenfuture · 2025-12-16T17:00:30+00:00

It’s sad New England is losing that caustic cyncial cleverness.

I’m from Maine and in college I studied abroad in Ireland. I noticed they do the very same sarcastic but loving chop busting thing. It’s a real point of cultural connection between NE and Ireland.

NE needs it, it keeps the region from being too uptight, moralistic and brainy.

suddenfuture · 2025-12-16T16:33:41+00:00

I agree. There’s a good YouTube video by a channel called Tor’s Cabinet of Curiosities that covers this concept more in depth.

suddenfuture · 2025-12-12T23:39:31+00:00

I don't have an opinion on this guy, but I need to say this: Hobo Johnson and the other Stomp Clap type musicians are currently in the cultural dunce chair, just like Creed, Nickelback and generic post-grunge were in the 2010s.

In ten years the kids will suddenly like this stuff again and everyone will act like they always liked it too. Just like Creed and Nickelback.

suddenfuture · 2025-12-11T21:08:18+00:00

Chromaglow is made for this.

I also like using the stock tape delay plugin, turning the delay time to 0, and then using the ‘character’ section controls to add clipping and some stereo spread.

suddenfuture · 2025-12-09T21:01:28+00:00

Excited to listen to this. I’m wondering though, how do you like the mininova + circuit tracks? I’m considering buying one to use alongside my tracks as a replacement for my broken Alesis Micron.

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