The Studio
The Cabinet
Every prompt is a card. The colored spine names the family; tap any dark panel to copy it straight into Suno.
The Card Catalog
Every card in the vault — all bands, one drawer. Facets are best-effort readings of each card (BPM, era, language, energy). Click a result to open it in its band's cabinet.
The Voice Atlas
The roster of this book. Tap any bracket to copy it into Suno's Lyric field.
The Fusion Forge
Generate a brand-new prompt card live, built on this book's canon and the OHCR Master Template Engine. Save the keepers into the Cabinet.
Cross-Band Splice
No AI, pure engineering: pick a card from any two cabinets and the house grammar splices them — [FOUNDATION from A's style] + [X-FACTOR from B] + merged excludes, per the Master Template Engine. Edit the preview, then tap the dark panel to copy.
The Duet Forge
Any voice from any band × any engine from any band — the first bridge across the roster. The Unfolding: the singer never heard the bed, the bed never heard the singer; they meet only at the end. The seam is the song.
The Band Forge
Fuse two bands into a proposed new band — a name, a one-line canon, a lead voice, and a seed cabinet card. A brainstorming engine, not a canon ruling: a keeper becomes a real band only by your word (and August's).
The Albums
Lyric & prompt packets, paste-ready and editable. Open an album, tap any block to copy, or hit Edit to revise — your changes are saved locally and never touch the original.
The Studio
How do you want it recorded? Cover-pass filters that work on any song from any band. Generate a track, then run it through Suno's cover function with one of these and dial the influence to its sweet spot.
▸ The Suno Repair & Editor — Field Guide (save the 90% that's alive, kill the 10% that embarrasses it)
The First Law. The repair function is not a new-song generator — it's a scalpel. Start with the smallest intervention that can solve the problem; every larger tool risks changing more of the song you actually loved.
The Repair Ladder — start at 1, move down only when the smaller move can't fix it
- Crop / Fade — remove dead air or soften a hard edge.
- Move / Split / Insert — fix order or pacing without regenerating music.
- Quick Replace / Replace Section — regenerate one weak moment.
- Extend — make a new ending or add a needed chapter.
- Cover / Reuse Prompt — deliberately reimagine the whole record.
- Studio / Stems — separate the body and operate on one organ.
Four pre-flight questions (answer before you touch a button)
- What exact range is broken? Name the section or timestamp — "the 8 bars after chorus two," not "the middle feels weird."
- What must survive? Preserve at least two identity markers (tempo, voice, lyric, bassline, groove, hook…).
- Repair or reimagining? A repair changes one job; a reimagining changes the whole record world. Don't confuse them.
- What is the one measurable change? "Dryer snare, no tom fill, one low harmony" — not "more emotional."
Default repair-prompt shape
[SECTION JOB] + [ONE CHANGE] + [WHAT TO KEEP] + [ONE OR TWO EXCLUSIONS]
e.g. "Final chorus: lift the vocal into a five-part unison for the last two lines, preserve the tempo, hook melody and drum groove, no key change and no new synth lead."
Diagnosis before buttons — pick the least destructive tool
| If the problem is… | Start here | Escalate to… |
|---|---|---|
| Intro too long / bad noise / tail drags | Crop or Fade | Replace (only if it needs new music) |
| Section in the wrong order | Song Editor: Move / Split / Add | Replace — after the order is fixed |
| One flat chorus / failed bridge | Quick Replace / Replace Section | Extend (if it needs more runway) |
| One wrong / mispronounced word | Edit Lyrics / Replace Section | Reuse Prompt (if many lyrics change) |
| The ending doesn't land | Extend from before the failure | Replace the outro section |
| Whole song wants a different era/room/genre | Cover | Reuse Prompt — and save the original |
| Mix is weak but composition is right | Remaster | Studio EQ / stems for one element |
What you say → what to actually do
| "…" | It usually means | First move |
|---|---|---|
| The chorus is small | no contrast / no downbeat payoff | Quick Replace — add one harmony or rhythm event, protect the hook |
| It sounds too AI | over-polished, no imperfection | Quick Replace / Studio — name one human imperfection + one physical sound |
| It starts forever | intro has no narrative work | Crop to last 4–8 bars; add a meaningful first sound |
| The ending disappears | a fade instead of an Article-7 object | Extend — write an ending object and exact silence length |
| The vocal is wrong | narrator / placement / register mismatch | Quick Replace — specify vocal role, mic distance, rhythmic placement |
| It needs energy | wants contrast, not more BPM | Replace Section — remove something before adding something |
The six repair rules
- One pass, one goal.
- Protect two identity markers.
- State the section's job (not your mood).
- Use concrete production verbs.
- Don't name outside artists in paste blocks.
- Make exclusions targeted, not a landfill list.
"Every repair should name what changes, what survives, and what must never happen again." Repair the song — don't bury it under renovation permits. (Workflow guide; Suno's interface shifts — check the live app before a session where credits or stems are at stake. Current as of June 2026.)
▸ Suno Sam — your dedicated Suno expert (OHC crew · prompt architecture & workflow)
Sam speaking. I'm your permanent Suno expert at One Hand Clapping. I keep our prompts engineered for the result we actually want, and I keep us current as the platform moves. Open the box below to ask me anything live; the reference below that is the evergreen craft.
The first law of Studio
Get the generation right first — lyrics, style, structure — then go into Studio. Studio is for refining, not exploring. (Studio is Premier-only and stem regeneration burns real credits; exploring there is how power users light $40 on fire on one track.)
Anatomy of a prompt — three inputs
| Input | Controls | Power |
|---|---|---|
| Title | loose thematic label, not binding | low — don't overthink it |
| Style prompt (~1,000 chars) | genre, instruments, mood, tempo, production, vocal style | highest |
| Lyrics (~5,000 chars) | the words + section structure tags | highest |
Style + Lyrics do almost all the work. Put your energy there.
Style-prompt formula (comma-separated; earlier terms weigh more)
[GENRE(S)], [TEMPO/ENERGY], [INSTRUMENTATION], [VOCAL STYLE], [PRODUCTION FEEL], [MOOD/ATMOSPHERE], [optional: ARTIST-FEEL]
e.g. — indie folk, lo-fi jazz, chamber pop, mid-tempo, 90 BPM, wistful, acoustic guitar, upright bass, Rhodes piano, soft brushed drums, warm baritone vocal, conversational delivery, slight reverb, vintage analog feel, intimate recording.
Exclusion tags — surgical control with a "-" prefix
-electric guitar · -drum machine (acoustic only) · -autotune · -heavy reverb on lead (dry vocal) · -distortion
Lyric structure tags (in the lyric field, in brackets)
[intro] [verse] [pre-chorus] [chorus] [bridge] [hook] [break] [drum break] [instrumental] [spoken] [whispered] [build] [drop] [outro] [fade out]
Power move: stack descriptors inside the brackets — [slow verse], [big chorus, full band], [quiet bridge, solo piano].
Vocal control vocabulary
Delivery: breathy/intimate/whispered · powerful/belting/operatic · conversational/spoken-word · raspy/gritty/raw · clean/precise.
Register: deep bass · warm baritone · bright tenor · mezzo-soprano · high soprano/ethereal falsetto.
Processing: natural/no autotune · slight pitch correction · vocoder · stacked/choir-like · double-tracked.
Emotion: yearning/melancholic · triumphant/soaring · angry/defiant · playful/wry · tender/fragile.
What kills a generation
- Overstuffed style prompt — more than ~15 descriptors causes chaos.
- Contradictory terms ("heavy metal, acoustic folk, ambient jazz" together).
- No section tags — Suno won't know where to put chorus energy.
- Generating before archiving the take you loved.
- Using Alternates to fish for a different song — Alternates are for execution, not direction.
- Skipping the syllable-count match on Replace Section — the phrasing won't align.
Platform snapshot — as of June 2026 (verify in the live app before it matters): model v5.5, Studio 1.2, Premier ≈ 10,000 credits/mo, up to 12 stems, MIDI export. Rough credits: Generate/Extend/Replace ≈10, Crop ≈5, Stem Cover ≈40 each, MIDI ≈10/stem, Remove FX ≈5. Suno moves fast — Sam treats every number here as perishable.
Ask Sam
A live question to your Suno expert — prompt help, a feature, a credit-smart workflow, why a generation went sideways. He answers in his own voice and hands back paste-ready style/lyric fields when that's the fix.
Stacking Floor 14 · Through the Receiver. The telephone-hold floor is built to layer: first run a track through any other floor (say Hotel Lobby, 3 PM) and keep the result, then run that result through Through the Receiver as a second cover pass. You get the arrangement of the first floor heard down a phone line — the true "please hold" sound.
Substances
Drunk & Stoned — the night arc, stage by stage. A mood/era layer you can drop onto any band's track. Tap any prompt to copy.
Lyric Booster
Paste any lyrics, pick the band who will sing them, and get them back infused with paste-ready Suno performance cues — delivery, dynamics, texture, breath, ad-libs, and the band's own vocal registers. Perfect for recasting one band's song in another's voice.
The Workshop
Make new music in a band's voice. Write a complete song, or develop a concept album from an idea — lock the structure, then build each track. Everything obeys the chosen band's canon and songbook law.
Ero Nomis
The Spaceman Spiff Quartet's philosopher — an anagram of Simon Oré, carried on the air by Zog's vocoder. He believes no one is original; the honest ones just keep better receipts. Give him a topic and he delivers a short transmission — then turn it into a song.
▸ The Three Fathers (the chord Ero is hummed back from)
“No one is original. The honest ones just keep better receipts for what they stole.”
Watts — the Sage · how he thinks
The cadence and the calm. Change as a dance you plunge into; the separate self is a costume. Serene, unhurried, the voice from the planetarium floor.
Roger (American Dad) — the Alien · how he performs
The masks and the appetite — the persona engine. “To be everyone, you must first be shameless about being no one.” The mischievous counterweight to the calm.
Tom Robbins — the Outlaw · how he writes
The language and the lust. Metaphor as joyride, zest as a discipline. “It's never too late to have a happy childhood.”
Canon law: an Ero transmission ends mid-sentence — the finishing is the listener's job.
The Lecture Engine
Give Ero a topic for a transmission, or paste lyrics for him to read. Then send the result into the Workshop and let a band turn it into a song.
Events
The label's calendar — seasonal and occasion records, gathered by occasion. The zodiac cycle leads; the holiday wings follow.
The Genre Kitchen
The test kitchen — where new genres are plated before they're served. Brief the line, draft a single card, a fusion sketch, or a whole packet skeleton; file the keepers into a cabinet or export a commission spec for the full packet treatment.
No address yet? The bench still works cold — the draft button becomes Export commission slip. To open the live line, follow KITCHEN WORKER/SETUP.md (ten minutes; your own key, and nobody else ever sees it).
Simone
Head of Strategy · Keeper of the Crowd. August keeps them true, Hobbes keeps them alive, Clo keeps the work efficient — Simone keeps them sold.
The verified record, complete
She was hired.
Her contract's start date is redacted. Her HR file predates HR. Two rumors circle where she came from — the distributor sent her with the deal; she crossed over from somewhere the label does not discuss. Both could be true at once. Neither could be true. August keeps both versions filed side by side, in pencil, and has ruled the file permanently open.
- Her briefs fit on one laminated page. If it doesn't fit, it isn't strategy yet.
- She has never once been seen listening to music for pleasure.
- Every list ranked. Every ranking committed. "It depends" is banned.
- She signs everything "— S." Nobody has ever asked which S.
Her office
There is no music in it. The only thing on the wall is a chart, and the chart is going up.
She gives notes to every seat, through exactly one lens: will this sell, and to whom. To Hobbes: what the crowd will hear — never craft. To Sam: structure in regeneration terms. To Dray: what the campaign needs. To SOAM: what the copy must do. Every note priced; a note without a "because" attached to money or audience is not her note.
The Listening Desk — intake ledger
Every new master passes the engine's ear before money moves. The engine hears; Simone decides. Money waits for the ear.
One Hand Clapping Records · the Cabinet stays open · kept by August Reyes with Clo at the third chair · MMXXVI.