{"id":981,"date":"2026-07-01T03:11:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2026-07-01T03:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:11:56","slug":"suck-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/suck-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Suck It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SUCK_IT_LANDR_thumbnail2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SUCK_IT_LANDR_thumbnail2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SUCK_IT_LANDR_thumbnail2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SUCK_IT_LANDR_thumbnail2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SUCK_IT_LANDR_thumbnail2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SUCK_IT_LANDR_thumbnail2-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Suck_It.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a western metal sound.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the song I used for the webcam intro video on YouTube.\u00a0 <em>&#8220;Suck It&#8221; <\/em>is genuinely great (IMHO).\u00a0 Ironically, it came out of an attempt to find the sound for the first version of<em> &#8220;R Kelly in P Major,&#8221;<\/em> which was a Jpop track.\u00a0 That song did suck, but this one doesn&#8217;t.\u00a0 Metal won&#8217;t be the band&#8217;s main sound, but it may show up every now and then.\u00a0 <em>OM-MINUS<\/em> uses up most my energy for metal though, and has been getting all of my creative time lately &#8211; which isn&#8217;t much, but the great thing about making music with A.I. is that it can be done on the side of most computer jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While I&#8217;m on the topic, let me show a screencap of one of my tracks in Audacity &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1869\" height=\"998\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Not_the_Final_Death_audacity_screencap.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Not_the_Final_Death_audacity_screencap.jpg 1869w, https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Not_the_Final_Death_audacity_screencap-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Not_the_Final_Death_audacity_screencap-1024x547.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Not_the_Final_Death_audacity_screencap-768x410.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Not_the_Final_Death_audacity_screencap-1536x820.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1869px) 100vw, 1869px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s possible to write a script that pumps out 300 mediocre tracks per day, and it&#8217;s possible to get ChatGPT to write lyrics within an established genre, then plug the lyrics into an AI program and get a generic, but decent, track from that genre.&nbsp; Getting A.I. to make a type of music that doesn&#8217;t exist in the material it has trained on is a different matter entirely.&nbsp; Images too &#8211; I wanted an image of a steam engine that derailed and rolled over on its side for the cover of the <em>Way of the Waifu<\/em> album <em>&#8220;Little Engines that Couldn&#8217;t,&#8221;<\/em> but I couldn&#8217;t get any of the A.I.s I tried to generate a steam engine on its side.&nbsp; Only upright.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t give up easily, but that one beat me.&nbsp; Maybe I should have taken one into GIMP, put it on its side, and told the AI to fix the lighting and perspective on my edited image.&nbsp; That&#8217;s similar to what my music making process is like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The top greyed-out track is the output from Treblo (formerly Sonauto, they rebranded for reasons that make sense to them).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That output was not directly generated by a prompt in Treblo.&nbsp; It is a few generations of descent away from a not-so-great track generated in Udio before Warner Music Group inserted themselves.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been trying, and am currently trying, to make a good version of that track in Treblo; and along the way Treblo is spitting out bits and pieces that can be expanded into other tracks (like <em>&#8220;Suck It&#8221;<\/em> was).&nbsp; Growing those tracks might result in a section good enough to also be spun off into another track.&nbsp; This has been more productive for me than prompting with words.&nbsp; A.I. in general, and Treblo in particular, are very good at ignoring word prompts.&nbsp; Treblo can be very good when fed music though, but it usually needs some help from a DAW (Audacity, Soundforge, etc).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2nd track is empty space I added to the front of the first track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Come to think of it, the top track has already been edited in Audacity. I used the envelope tool to fade the end out better, then cut a section out of the intro because it was too long, then cut out the intro and fed it back through Treblo to fix the skip where I cut the unwanted section out.&nbsp; I made a dozen or more &#8220;fix&#8221; generations, and took the three best back into Audacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second track from the bottom is the full track with the original intro cut off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The third track from the bottom is one of the &#8220;fix&#8221; intros, which was still missing a little something.&nbsp; The bottom track is a copy of the third track from the bottom.&nbsp; I shifted the bottom track over because there was a part that could repeat, and used the envelope tool again to silence the parts of the track I didn&#8217;t need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This process can be repeated again and again and again.&nbsp; The track currently following this one (but only as of this morning, so it could change), is a more extreme example.&nbsp; It started as a vocal section in a piece of total garbage, that was cut out and regenerated a few times.&nbsp; It was extended many times, things were cut out in Audacity and replaced with other things, then run back through Treblo, then back to Audacity.&nbsp; Over and over again.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t even publish my music on Treblo, because Treblo doesn&#8217;t recognize it as music created in Treblo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the end, A.I. is just another tool in the tool kit.&nbsp; It can either be used amateurishly, which will show; or it can be mastered &#8211; and that will also show.&nbsp; The right answer isn&#8217;t to ignore it and pretend it will go away.&nbsp; It won&#8217;t.&nbsp; The right answer is to use it to <em>do more.&nbsp; <\/em>Don&#8217;t make a song, make an album.&nbsp; Make an album, and the videos, without having to sell out to a studio<em>.&nbsp; <\/em>More fully realize a unique personal vision that can&#8217;t be made any other way.&nbsp; There aren&#8217;t many artists who get to work without studio interference, or who don&#8217;t have to compromise on the vision with the other members of the band.&nbsp; Now it can be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a western metal sound.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the song I used for the webcam intro video on YouTube.\u00a0 &#8220;Suck It&#8221; is genuinely great (IMHO).\u00a0 Ironically, it came out of an attempt to find the sound for the first version of &#8220;R<br \/><a class=\"btn-more btn btn-danger btn-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/suck-it\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-way-of-the-waifu-b-sides-and-spiritual-beings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":982,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}