The Master Guide / 12 Music · Suno
Style-text examples
Six style formulas (the settings and style text for a common job), then eight complete examples. All are written for this guide, with invented brands.
Six style formulas (the settings and style text for a common job), then eight complete examples. All are written for this guide, with invented brands.
Every formula runs on the every-job settings (see Music → Suno controls and starting values), with no upload unless your plan names one.
Style formula 1: a 15, 30 or 60 s bed with a button ending
Duration: custom, at the length. Max Mode: off. Sliders: 35 / 75.
Styles: the length and purpose, genre, BPM and metre, key if needed, 3–6 instruments with their jobs, the hook landing within the first 2 s, where the lift falls, one hard hit on the final downbeat and no fade.
Tags: 15 s, intro, hook, button end; 30 s, intro, groove, lift, final hook, button end; 60 s adds a break and a build.
Exclude: fade out, vocals, singing, lyrics, and the brief's avoid list.
Versions: for the 15 s version, first cut the chosen 30 s take on bar lines, so every version carries the same music; generate a separate 15 s only if that cut fails.
Style formula 1b: many hit points, cut from a longer take
Option: use it when the cut has more hit points than one take can land [best available, not yet validated]. It comes from one earlier production.
Ask for a 60–90 s take, one section per block the ad needs, one BPM and key, on formula 1's settings. It counts against the cap.
Shortlist by ear in the player; download only the shortlisted take.
Measure the BPM and mark the bar lines; check the grid by ear.
Write the cut list in whole bars: the intro, each hit point, the ending. Cut and join only on bar lines. No stretching, no speed change.
If the whole comes out a bar long or short, drop or repeat one bar of the steadiest section.
Listen to every join; a join that clicks or jumps moves to the next bar line. The ending is the source's own ending bars.
Keep the whole source take on the layer beneath the assembled version in the timeline, and lay it against the cut like any other option.
Style formula 2: a voiceover bed
As formula 1, with sliders at 25 / 80.
Styles add: a sparse arrangement, no lead melody while the voice speaks, the midrange left open, a steady level and a restrained lift.
Exclude adds: lead melody, solo instrument and big drops.
Why: Suno's own ad guidance shapes a bed the same way: start quietly, rise when the offer arrives, leave room under the voice, and stop firmly [official guidance].
In the mix: duck it under the voiceover; if one instrument masks the voice, split that instrument from the mix (10 Suno credits) and lower only its stem (see Sound design and mix → The mix with speech as the anchor).
Style formula 3: a cinematic build
Duration: one step above the cut length, for the ring-out. Sliders: 45 / 70.
Styles: the score type, BPM, a sparse start, where percussion enters, where the full climax lands, one final hit, then a short ring-out.
Tags: intro, build, build, climax, final hit, ring out.
Exclude: trailer braams, EDM or vocals, as the brief needs.
Options: one of three may run on v6-wild.
Style formula 4: an Egyptian Arabic sung jingle
Sliders: 30 / 80. Vocal Gender: as cast. Duration: the jingle's length.
Lyrics: in Arabic script as Cairenes say them, short lines, the brand spelled as it is said; tags for intro, verse, hook and tag, ending on the brand line.
Styles: the Egyptian pop style and its energy, BPM, darbuka and riq, the vocal, clear diction, and the brand line ending on a hit.
Checks: the vocal's transcript against the lyrics, content words only; a native Cairene ear passes every sung line (see Voice and Arabic dialects → The native reviewer).
Finals: a real singer over the Suno instrumental stem, then lip sync from the isolated vocal.
Style formula 5: a Saudi or Gulf sung jingle
As formula 4, in Khaleeji pop: 6/8 or 4/4, with oud, qanun, mirwas, duff and handclaps and a Gulf Arabic vocal (Suno's own library shows these in Khaleeji tracks, for example 6/8 at 115 BPM).
Checks: the native Saudi or Gulf reviewer passes the lyrics and every sung line; until then, it stays a draft.
Style formula 6: stems for the timeline
Stems for the chosen take only: Split from Mix (vocal plus everything else, 20 Suno credits) when only the vocal must stand apart; Auto Split (up to 12 stems, 50 Suno credits) when single instruments are needed.
One download brings the WAV and its stems, counting once against the month's 20.
The null check (the method is in Sound design and mix → Stems): lay the stems and the full mix together, invert the full mix's polarity, and play. Some residue is normal for separated stems; listen for whole parts left over, for parts in the wrong stem and for smeared attacks. The 60 dB proof is for the delivered mix stems.
In the timeline: the full mix on the top music track, active; its stems beneath at the same start, muted; the other options on their own muted tracks (see Editing → The editable timeline).
The examples
Each gives the style formula, the sliders and Duration, then the style text, the lyrics box and the exclusions. Where the lyrics hold Arabic, they sit in their own card, one tag or line per line.
A. Luxury watch, 30 s, voiceover bed
Style formula 2, sliders 25 / 80, Duration 30 s.
Styles: 30-second advert track, slow modern neo-soul, 2020s, 80 BPM half-time, felt piano holding open chords, warm upright bass on the downbeats, brushed snare kept soft, distant hummed female vocal in the gaps, sparse, no lead melody while the voice speaks, lift at 19 seconds, ends on one soft chord on the final downbeat, no fade-out
Lyrics: [Intro] [Groove] [Lift] [Final Hook] [Button End]
Exclude: fade out, lead vocals, lyrics, lead melody, big drops
B. Comedy, 15 s, a sting for a cleaning-spray ad
Style formula 1, sliders 35 / 75, Duration 15 s.
Styles: 15-second advert track, bouncy silent-film ragtime, 128 BPM, 4/4, honky-tonk upright piano, clarinet runs, oompah tuba on one and three, slide-whistle accents, hook in the first second, ends on one comic cymbal crash on the final downbeat, no fade-out
Lyrics: [Intro] [Hook] [Button End]
Exclude: fade out, lead vocals, singing, lyrics, cartoon sound effects
C. Football, 30 s, Khaleeji energy
Style formula 1, sliders 35 / 75, one option on v6-wild.
Styles: 30-second advert track, stadium Khaleeji trap, 130 BPM, 4/4, mirwas and duff driving every bar, heavy sub bass, stacked handclaps, (crowd chant) on the lift, hook in the first 2 seconds, lift at 13 seconds, full at 21 seconds, ends on one hard hit with the crowd roar cut off, no fade-out
Exclude: fade out, lead vocals, singing, rap verses
[Intro]
[Groove]
(يَلّا!)
[Lift]
[Final Hook]
[Button End]
The chant in Suno's take is a guide only. For the final, real voices record it over the instrumental stem, briefed and delivered as in Music → Sung lyrics and the real singer, and the native Gulf reviewer passes it; until then the track is a draft. If the shot also needs an Arabic crowd under it, that comes from a real CC0 crowd recording (see Sound design and mix → Real recordings from Openverse (CC0)).
D. Drama, 60 s, an intimate brand film
Style formula 3, sliders 45 / 70, Duration 65 s for the ring-out.
Styles: cinematic chamber score, 70 BPM, opens on a lone nylon-string guitar, a viola line enters at 16 seconds, low strings swell at 34 seconds, a full but held-back climax at 47 seconds, one final sustained guitar chord, then a short ring-out
Lyrics: [Intro] [Build] [Build] [Climax] [Final Hit] [Ring Out]
Exclude: trailer braams, drums, EDM, vocals, choir
E. Stylised, 30 s, a neon sneaker film
Style formula 1, sliders 35 / 75, one option on v6-wild.
Styles: 30-second advert track, 1980s electro-funk with a modern sheen, 108 BPM, 4/4, gated drum machine, slap synth bass, bright analog brass stabs, vocoder hits without words, glossy and cool, lift at 12 seconds, ends on one gated snare and silence, no fade-out
Lyrics: [Intro] [Groove] [Lift] [Final Hook] [Button End]
Exclude: fade out, lead vocals, singing, lyrics, guitar solo
F. Documentary or corporate, 60 s, an MSA voiceover bed
Style formula 2, sliders 25 / 80, Duration 60 s.
Styles: 60-second documentary underscore, ambient orchestral, 88 BPM felt rather than heard, soft string pads, a sparse harp pulse, distant horns on the lifts, midrange left open for the voice, steady level, restrained lift at 41 seconds, ends on one warm low chord, no fade-out
Lyrics: [Intro] [Groove] [Break] [Build] [Lift] [Button End]
Exclude: fade out, lead vocals, singing, lyrics, lead melody, oriental clichés
G. Egyptian sung jingle, 15 s, for the invented drink "Tota"
Style formula 4, sliders 30 / 80, female vocal.
Styles: 15-second advert jingle, modern Egyptian pop with mahraganat energy, 120 BPM, darbuka and riq groove, bright synth stabs, chant-along hook, female Egyptian Arabic vocal, clear diction, ends on the brand line and one hit
Exclude: fade out, belly dance, Arabian Nights
[Intro]
(يَلّا!)
[Hook]
تُوتَة… تُوتَة… طَعْمَها في القَلْب
[Tag]
تُوتَة، والصّيف يِحْلَى
H. Gulf sung jingle, 30 s, for the invented tea "Samar"
Style formula 5, sliders 30 / 80, male vocal.
Styles: 30-second advert jingle, Khaleeji pop, 6/8, 110 BPM, oud phrases answering the voice, qanun flourishes, mirwas and duff, handclaps on the hook, warm male Gulf Arabic vocal, late-evening gathering mood, ends on the brand line and one duff hit
Exclude: fade out, Western pop drums, autotune
[Intro]
[Verse]
الشّاي يِجْمَعْنا واللَّيْل يْطول
[Hook]
سَمَر… ونِسْهَر مَعَ الرَّبْع
[Tag]
سَمَر
A draft until the native Saudi or Gulf reviewer passes it.
Sources
Suno's advertising music library (the ad-bed shape and the Khaleeji instruments); Suno, Advanced Stem Separation.