Accessing the Studio

Soul Sound Studio is a members-only web app at beza.work. It runs entirely in your browser — no download required. It installs as a PWA on your phone or desktop.

Signing In

Interface Overview

The studio has three tabs: Prompt Studio, Lyric Workshop, and Manual. The header shows your generation count, the language selector, and the settings gear. Everything lives in one browser window.

Settings Panel

Click the ⚙ gear icon to open your preferences. You will see your account email, tier status, generations remaining, and the output language selector. Use it also to sign out.

Personas

A persona is a complete artist identity — name, location, label, style description, voice, themes, default BPM, key, and mode. Selecting a persona loads its defaults and shapes every AI feature in the studio.

Creating a Persona

Click + New above the persona grid. The modal has two tabs:

Editing and Deleting

Click the ✎ pencil icon on any persona card to edit it. The same modal opens in Manual tab. To delete, open the edit modal and click Delete This Persona at the bottom.

Your Personas Are Private

Each user's personas are stored separately in their own browser. No user can see another user's personas.

Free vs Paid

All AI features — Generate All, Auto-Generate Lyrics, Auto-Title, Lyric Workshop Assessment, and Persona Analyse & Build — count toward your generation limit.

When you hit the limit, a message shows the exact time remaining until reset. Your tier and remaining count are always visible in the ⚙ Settings panel.

Core Workflow

On first login, a Start Here Workflow Guide appears above the sections. Six numbered steps, each clickable to open the relevant section directly. Dismiss it with "Got it, hide this" once you know the order. The guide reappears on a new device or after clearing local storage.

Instrumental / Vocal / Both

The mode toggle is the most important control in the studio. It changes what gets generated across the Style field, Lyrics field, and the Auto-Generate button.

The 15 Sections + Chord Generator

Each section is collapsible — click the header to open or close it. A gold dot appears on Section 12 when the Director's Note has content. Sections 13–15 are new in v3.2. Section 02b (Chord Progression Generator) is new in v3.3.

01 — Tempo / BPM

Exact BPM is the single biggest groove lever. It locks Suno's internal clock. The BPM display glows amber — use the slider or click a preset. The active preset shows in gold.

02 — Key & Mode

Select a root key and a mode — they combine into a single harmonic instruction giving Suno harmonic identity.

02b — Chord Progression Generator

Sits between Key & Mode and Rhythmic Feel. Generates a harmonically correct, artist-flavoured chord progression from your current key, mode, and artist identity — no API call needed for seeded artists.

Flavour buttons

Six flavour modes shape what the generator produces:

Generate

For seeded artists (Roo, Calhoun, Tesfay, Dawit) the generator uses a Markov transition engine — weighted probability tables built from real voice-leading theory, plus artist-specific mutations. Roo gets gospel turnarounds. Calhoun ends on V7. Tesfay never resolves to tonic. Dawit loops back to root. Every press produces a different result. For user-created artists, a Haiku API call reads the persona bio and themes.

Editing the progression

Every chord appears as an editable pill. Hover to reveal the ✕ delete button. Click any pill to open the swap panel — showing the full diatonic palette for your key and mode. Click any swap option to replace that chord in place. Use the Shuffle (⟳) button to randomise the order.

Inserting chords into lyrics

Three ways to get chord tags into the Lyrics field — Suno reads [Am] and [Am F C G] as structural instructions, never as sung text:

Web Audio Preview

Click ▶ Preview to hear the progression in the browser — no API, no server. Each chord plays for one bar at your current BPM. The active chord pill glows teal during playback. Click ■ Stop to interrupt. The sound is a warm Rhodes-adjacent tone — sine waves with slight detune, lowpass filter, and a room delay.

Add to Style

Click ↓ Add to Style to append the progression to the Style field as a plain-text instruction: chord progression Am F C G (i-VI-III-VII) in A Mixolydian. This is separate from the bracketed tags in the Lyrics field — the Style instruction tells Suno the harmonic palette, the Lyrics tags tell it when to use each chord.

03 — Rhythmic Feel

A performance description — how the musicians are playing, not how the music feels emotionally. One selection only.

04 — Arrangement Timeline

Builds the structural narrative of the track. Suno reads these as ordered scene cues — sequence matters. Drag the ⌧ handle on any tag to reorder without clearing.

05 — Hook Intensity

06 — Genre DNA

Select up to 3 genres. Suno blends them in proportion to the order selected — first selected = dominant influence. Browse 757 genres across 26 families using the category tabs, or search by name in the search bar.

Category tabs with a gold dot match your active persona's genre DNA — start there. Persona-relevant tabs are highlighted automatically when you switch artists.

07 — Instrumentation

Select as many instruments as needed. First selected = lead voice of the track. Selected instruments show in green. Browse 160+ model-specific instruments across 17 families using the family and type filters.

08 — Playing Techniques

Performance instructions at the note level — the most specific controls in the studio. 67 techniques across 8 instrument categories. Organised by tabs: Universal, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keys, Horns, Strings, World.

Universal techniques (Call & Response, Syncopation, Gospel Cadences, Blues Triplets etc.) are always shown regardless of instrument selection — they apply to the full band.

09 — Production Style

How the record sounds — not just how it plays. One selection only.

10 — Mix Perspective

Where do you feel you're standing? Adjusts reverb, depth, and stereo width.

11 — Sonic References

Song + year + label = a sonic photograph. Far more precise than an artist name alone. Select up to 3. First selected = dominant influence. The rank row at the top of the section shows your selection order — 1st (dominant), 2nd (strong blend), 3rd (light influence). A gold number badge appears on each selected chip showing its rank.

12 — Director's Note

Free text — scene, narrative, specific cues, anything not covered by the other sections. A gold dot appears on the section header when this field has content. When a persona is built by AI and has unmatched genre influences, they are automatically appended here.

Output Fields

Use ↓ Copy All Three Fields to copy all three at once, formatted and ready to paste directly into Suno.

Style Breakdown Panel

After every Generate All, a Style Breakdown panel appears below the Style field. Click the header to expand it. Each row shows exactly where a piece of the Style field came from — Genre DNA, Tempo, Instrumentation, References, Suno Control — colour-coded by section group.

The breakdown turns the Style field from a black box into a transparent, editable recipe. If something sounds wrong in Suno, this is where you diagnose it.

Bracket Toolbar

One-tap tags that insert directly at the cursor position in the Lyrics field. In Instrumental mode, vocal performance tags are automatically hidden.

How It Works

The Lyric Workshop is a dedicated space for writing and refining lyrics. The AI assesses your work against your active persona's voice rules — not generic songwriting standards.

Assessment Scores

Accepting Rewrites

Click Accept Rewrite on any line rewrite. The studio finds the original line in your lyrics and replaces it automatically. The textarea flashes green on a successful match. If the match fails — because you've edited the line since the assessment — the rewrite is appended at the bottom for you to cut and paste into position.

After accepting rewrites, reassess. Version history saves every draft automatically.

Lyric Workshop — Integrated Flow

The Lyric Workshop is now a single unified canvas where you write, generate, assess, and refine — then send finished lyrics to the output box in one click.

The Workflow

What's New in v3.4

v3.4 is the largest update since v3.2. Every major section has been redesigned or expanded.

Style Breakdown Panel

Every time you hit Generate All, a Style Breakdown panel appears below the Style field in the sidebar. It auto-opens on the first generate. Click the header bar to collapse and expand it.

The breakdown shows exactly what contributed to your Style field — section by section, colour-coded by group:

Each row has a ↗ jump button — click it to open that section in the Prompt Studio and scroll directly to it. If anything is truncated (total over 1000 chars), those rows appear struck through in red with a note showing which sections were cut.

Custom Chip Creators

Sections 06, 07, 08, and 11 each have a creator input at the bottom. If you can't find what you need in the built-in database, type it and let the AI build it.

All custom chips are saved permanently to your account — they appear every time you log in. They work exactly like built-in chips: they feed into the Style field, are read by gmv(), and are included in Generate All output.

Lyric Workshop — Context Strip

A permanent strip runs across the top of the Lyric Workshop, always reflecting the live state of the Prompt Studio. You never have to switch tabs to remember what you set up.

The strip updates automatically when you switch artists, change a section selection, or hit Generate All. On mobile it scrolls horizontally.

Voice Rules Panel

Click the Voice Rules button at the right of the context strip. A panel expands below showing the full lyric coaching rules for your active persona — the rules the AI uses when assessing your lyrics. Roo's rules include "specific concrete details, not mood words" and "man speaks with certainty, not searching." Calhoun's include "time as a physical presence" and "short declarative lines, long silences implied between." Write to these rules deliberately and your assessment scores will reflect it.

Previous Release Notes — v3.2

Section 13 — Fight Suno Defaults

One-click chips that override Suno's most common bad habits. These feed directly into the Style field. Key options:

Section 14 — Exclude From Generation

Tell Suno explicitly what NOT to include. Select instruments or elements to exclude, or type your own in the free-text field. These are prepended as negative instructions in the Style field.

Section 15 — Vocal Direction

Only visible in Vocal or Both modes. Two controls: delivery style (Raw & Gritty, Gospel Power, Intimate Whisper etc.) and vocal range (Bass through Soprano). Both feed into the Style field.

Energy Arc (Section 05)

Added inside Hook Intensity. Describes how the song's energy moves over time — Slow Build, Full From Start, Peak & Pull Back, Verse-Chorus Contrast, Sustained Tension, or Build to Resolution.

Chord Progression Generator — Full Reference

How the engine works

For seeded artists, the generator uses a weighted Markov chain. Each mode has a transition table — from chord index X, chord Y is more likely than chord Z, based on real voice-leading practice. In Mixolydian the bVII has the strongest pull back to I. In Dorian the IV is the brightness chord. In Phrygian the bII is the hallmark move. After the Markov walk, artist mutations apply: Roo gets a 50% chance of a IV-I gospel turnaround before the final chord. Calhoun always ends on V7 in blues flavour. Tesfay has a 70% chance of ending on VII instead of resolving to tonic. Dawit loops back to root — circular, not linear.

Per-section chord annotation

When Generate All runs, chord tags are inserted after every section header in the Lyrics field. The subset of the progression used varies by section role:

All comma-suffixed arrangement timeline sections are matched — [Chorus, full band lift, hook lands hard] is correctly identified as a chorus and gets the second-half chord subset. If a section already has a chord tag, a second pass never injects a duplicate.

Scale coverage

The engine has transition tables for all 9 modes in the Key & Mode section: Major, Minor, Mixolydian, Dorian, Phrygian, Pentatonic Minor, Pentatonic Major, Blues Scale, and Ambassel Pentatonic. Unknown modes fall back to Major.

Onboarding Guide

On first login, a 5-step guided flow walks you through the studio in the right order. Each step has a primary action and a Skip option.

After the first-run flow, a progress strip appears below the tab bar. Five steps are shown with connecting dots — grey (pending), gold pulsing (active), green with checkmark (complete). Click any step to revisit it. The strip disappears automatically once all 5 steps are complete.

Dismissing the overlay

Three ways to close the onboarding overlay without taking an action:

Persona Preset Packs

Export any persona as a .json file and share it with other Soul Sound Studio users. The file includes the full persona plus all band musicians assigned to it.

Exporting

Click the ↓ button on any persona card. The file downloads named after the persona (e.g. roo-billups-preset.json).

Importing

Click ↑ Import in the Roster header. Select a .json preset file. The persona loads instantly into your grid with band musicians included.

Auto-Title

Click Auto-Title next to the Title field. Generates 5 title options drawn directly from your lyrics — the language, imagery, and story in what you've written. Genre, feel, and themes are used as supporting context. A picker appears — click any title to set it.

Output Language

The language selector in the header — and in the Settings panel — controls what language the AI writes in. This affects Auto-Generate Lyrics, Auto-Title, and the Lyric Workshop assessment feedback.

The Style field always stays in English — Suno requires English prompts. Only the content you write and read changes language.

Available languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya, Swahili, Yoruba, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Hindi. Your language selection is saved and restored across sessions.

Exporting Your Work

Keyboard Shortcuts

Suno Rules & Hard Limits

Frequently Asked Questions

My session history disappeared after clearing my browser.

History and state are saved to your browser's localStorage. If you cleared browser data, history is gone. Use Export .txt to save prompts permanently before clearing.

Can I use the studio without filling in all 12 sections?

Yes. At minimum, select your persona and hit Generate All — you get a working prompt. The more sections you fill in, the more precise the output.

The AI-built persona description didn't match some of my genres.

Any genre or influence not found in the 245-genre database is automatically added to the Director's Note field as a custom note. You can also add it manually to the Lyrics field or Director's Note for Suno.

Can I create personas for someone else's artists?

Yes — the persona system is fully user-defined. You can create personas for any artist, real or fictional, as long as you don't include real artist names in the Suno prompt output (the Style field). Use location, label, and style description instead.

My session expired. How do I log back in?

Sessions last 30 days. When yours expires, the login screen appears automatically. Your saved state and history are stored locally and restore once you're back in.

Can I use the studio on my phone?

Yes — install it as a PWA from beza.work in your mobile browser. All features work on mobile.

I want to add a new genre to the database.

Contact the studio. Genre additions require codebase updates — they're not self-service. The current database covers 245 genres across 22 families.

How do I upgrade to a paid account?

Contact the studio directly. Tier upgrades are applied manually to your account.