{"slug": "suno-is-trying-to-look-more-like-a-real-music-production-tool", "title": "Suno is trying to look more like a real music production tool", "summary": "Suno released Studio 2.0, adding MIDI support, automation, effects plugins, and a chatbot to its AI music generation tool, moving it closer to a digital audio workstation. The update includes a built-in synth, a suite of effects, and the ability to create custom effects plugins, but does not support third-party plugins or VSTs. Suno's Henry Phipps demonstrated the beta chat feature, which can handle tasks like cleaning up notes and deciding vocal chains, reducing the need for manual user input.", "body_md": "[Suno](/ai-artificial-intelligence/786349/suno-ai-music-generator-v5-review) is releasing Studio 2.0 with significant upgrades that push it closer to an actual digital audio workstation (DAW), rather than a bare-bones audio editor with generative AI features. The biggest addition is undoubtedly MIDI support. Suno says that MIDI was its most requested feature, and it’s basically a prerequisite for any modern DAW. Unfortunately, Suno Studio doesn’t appear to support third-party plugins or VSTs yet, so you’re stuck using its proprietary built-in synth. That synth appears to be a basic two-oscillator wavetable plugin with three envelopes and four envelopes.\n\n# Suno is trying to look more like a real music production tool\n\nStudio 2.0 adds MIDI, effects plugins, and a synth, but also a chatbot that does everything for you.\n\nStudio 2.0 adds MIDI, effects plugins, and a synth, but also a chatbot that does everything for you.\n\nThe point is less about using your favorite Arturia vintage synth emulation, though, and more about using that MIDI data as a prompt. You can play in some chords, then ask Suno to turn that MIDI into audio, extend a melody, or write a B-part based on what you played. Another standard DAW feature being added in Studio 2.0 is automation. So now you can pan or change the volume of individual tracks across the arrangement.\n\nSuno is also adding a chatbot to the Studio interface so you can prompt it for lyrics or a new guitar line. This isn’t an isolated generator either, it is tied into the current session and pulls in the musical context of your current project. So you can tell it things like “make this vocal track sound better,” and it will add reverb, compression, and EQ. Oh, and yes, Suno Studio now has a suite of simple built-in effects, including distortion, delay, reverb, compression, and EQ.\n\nThe most interesting feature of the chat interface, however, is the ability to create custom effects plugins. These can be unique reverbs, brickwalled compression, or chorus effects, similar to [Polyend’s Endless](/ai-artificial-intelligence/935219/polyend-endless-ai-guitar-effects-pedal) AI guitar pedal. These effects are saved to your account as well, so they can be reused at a later date.\n\nSuno Studio 2.0 is a lot more feature-packed than version one, but the beta version of the chat leaves even less to do for the users. In the demo above, Suno’s Henry Phipps can be seen cleaning up some flubbed notes and quantizing MIDI, before saying he should be asking the chatbot to do all this for him. He also leaves deciding on a vocal chain up to the AI rather than selecting effects himself.\n\n**Follow topics and authors** from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.\n\n## More in: [All the latest in AI ‘music’](/ai-artificial-intelligence/903196/ai-music-suno-udio-art-lawsuit)\n\n## Most Popular\n\n- Google’s Pixel 11 series pairs a little new hardware with a lot of new software\n- How Google’s new Pixel 11 phones compare to last year’s models\n- Xbox Elite 3 prototype pad leaks with tiny built-in screen\n- The 7 biggest announcements of Google’s Pixel 11 launch\n- The Pixel Tag is Google’s answer to the AirTag", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/suno-is-trying-to-look-more-like-a-real-music-production-tool", "canonical_source": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/979345/suno-studio-2-0-midi-chatbot-custom-effects", "published_at": "2026-08-13 16:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-13 16:21:57.384643+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Suno", "Studio 2.0", "Henry Phipps", "Polyend"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/suno-is-trying-to-look-more-like-a-real-music-production-tool", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/suno-is-trying-to-look-more-like-a-real-music-production-tool.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/suno-is-trying-to-look-more-like-a-real-music-production-tool.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/suno-is-trying-to-look-more-like-a-real-music-production-tool.jsonld"}}