{"id":181414,"date":"2025-09-25T19:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/181414\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T19:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:17:13","slug":"ai-music-company-suno-launches-daw-to-rival-logic-ableton-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/181414\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Music Company Suno Launches DAW to Rival Logic, Ableton &#038; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSuno, a leading generative AI music company, has announced the launch of Suno Studio, its new digital audio workstation (DAW) \u2014 or, as the company calls it, a \u201cgenerative audio workstation.\u201d The product combines all of Suno\u2019s tools for music generation into one product, including generating individual stems, editing in a multi-track timeline and starting with any audio (samples, stems, even a hummed melody) and transforming it into something new, and exporting everything as audio and MIDI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tUltimately, the product shows that Suno is not just interested in being the engine behind songs made at the click of a button \u2014 it\u2019s interested in rivaling longtime professional DAWs like Logic, Ableton and FL Studio as well as newer browser-based options like Bandlab. \u201cThe goal is: however you know how to express a musical idea, whether it\u2019s through piano, through humming something, through tapping on the table, through uploading a demo, or through a list of adjectives and genres \u2014 however you know how to express a musical idea, we want to let you hear it come to life,\u201d says Suno product manager Henry Phipps in an exclusive interview with Billboard about the new tool.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/suno-lawsuit-ai-company-pirated-youtube-songs-record-labels\/\" class=\"c-lazy-image__link lrv-a-unstyle-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Suno-logo-new-2025-billboard-1800.jpg\" alt=\"Suno logo\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe beta version of Suno Studio is available on Thursday (Sept. 25) to all users with a Premier Plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTo introduce and finetune Suno Studio, the company has been quietly working with songwriting camps to get it into the hands of professional musicians, including a recent one at Rick Rubin\u2019s famous Shangri-La studios in Malibu, Calif., hosted by Frank Ocean and Jay-Z producer Om\u2019Mas Keith. \u201cThe music creation camp I did with Suno at Shangri-La was a high-profile art meets science experiment,\u201d says Keith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ve done probably nine or ten [camps] so far,\u201d Paul Sinclair, Suno\u2019s new chief music officer, tells Billboard. \u201cWe\u2019ve got five more already lined up. We are going to Asia for the next few weeks, and there\u2019s even more for October and November.\u201d Producers at these camps have also included THURZ of Party in My Living Room, Rance of 1500 or Nothin\u2019, DONUT and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cBut we\u2019re not running these camps. Someone will come to us and say, \u2018I would like to do a writer\u2019s camp and I would like Suno to be part of it,&#8217;\u201d says Sinclair.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/ai-firms-steal-music-scrape-copyright-icmp-investigation\/\" class=\"c-lazy-image__link lrv-a-unstyle-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758827833_25_glennharvey_2025_08_28_billboard_f1-1800.jpg\" alt=\"AI scraping\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tPhipps adds, \u201cI go to them as tech support\u2026 These are people interested in exploring the future, basically. All of these people have no trouble making incredible records on their own, they\u2019re just interested in trying something brand new\u2026It\u2019s been interesting. At each of these camps, the creative in charge always has a very different way of interacting with Suno.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re witnessing a paradigm shift taking place in studios right now as AI becomes a part of more artists\u2019 creative process,\u201d said\u00a0Mikey Shulman, co-founder and CEO of Suno, in a statement. \u201cStudio was built to expand the toolkit for musicians; it intentionally does not prescribe workflows so that human talent can remain front and center. What\u2019s been most inspiring for us is putting the technology in the hands of artists and watching them experiment with what\u2019s possible, all with their creativity, knowledge and talent remaining in the driver\u2019s seat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThis is the latest in a string of announcements from the leading generative AI music company in recent months. In early June, Suno debuted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/suno-new-editing-features-users-more-control\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new editing features<\/a>, like its \u201ccreative slider\u201d and stem extraction tools, to give users more control. Later that month, the company announced its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/suno-acquires-wavtool-a-music-editing-tools\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acquisition of WavTool, <\/a>a browser-based DAW. And in July, the company revealed that it had hired former Atlantic Records general manager Sinclair as its first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/suno-hires-paul-sinclair-chief-music-officer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">chief music officer<\/a> to \u201cunlock new experiences between artists and fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe major music companies \u2014 including Sinclair\u2019s former employer, Warner Music Group \u2014 are still pursuing<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/major-label-lawsuit-ai-firms-suno-udio-copyright-infringement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0lawsuits<\/a>\u00a0against Suno and its competitor Udio, alleging that the companies have infringed on their copyrighted sound recordings on \u201can almost unimaginable scale\u201d by using them to train models without a license. In early June, it was reported that\u00a0the majors were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/major-record-labels-music-licensing-talks-ai-companies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in licensing talks <\/a>with Suno and Udio<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/major-record-labels-music-licensing-talks-ai-companies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a>to see if private licensing agreements could be reached.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMost recently, on Friday (Sept. 19), the majors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/suno-lawsuit-ai-company-pirated-youtube-songs-record-labels\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">updated their lawsuit <\/a>against Suno to also include claims that Suno scraped their songs from YouTube, taking a cue from Anthropic\u2019s recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/anthropic-ai-pay-1-5-billion-settle-lawsuit-book-authors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$1.5 billion copyright settlement<\/a> while citing an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/ai-firms-steal-music-scrape-copyright-icmp-investigation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exclusive\u00a0Billboard\u00a0report<\/a> on mass piracy in AI training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suno, a leading generative AI music company, has announced the launch of Suno Studio, its new digital audio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,498,100263,74],"class_list":["post-181414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-music-news","tag-suno","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}