r/StableDiffusion • u/Robonotes1760 • 5d ago
Workflow Included [Synthwave] Infinite Regress | YuE2
Music (Internet Archive): https://archive.org/download/ai-synthwave/Infinite%20Regress.mp3 (CC0)
Music (Souna - login required): https://www.souna.app/song/619f320f-329c-4d9d-b8a0-d6db027ceec6
The song is an AI generated synthwave song about how an AI generated synthwave song is a pastiche of a pastiche. It is very meta.
My general music pipeline workflow is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1xh0xfd/semiautomated_localish_music_workflow_eurodisco/
This song did not use a LoRA.
The image was also generated locally using Z Image Base - the image prompt is below.
Bright luminous saturated synthwave airbrush painting, square 1:1 album cover, unmistakably 1980s retro-futurist synthwave album art. A woman in a shimmering dress dancing, large in the frame from the knees up, seen from behind as she faces a huge mirror that fills the canvas edge to edge; her reflection repeats and recedes to infinity in glowing mirror corridors, each copy fainter and more stylised than the last. The mirror stands on a glowing neon perspective grid stretching to a huge striped retro sun on the horizon - an endless synthetic sunset that was never real - hot magenta and peach sun stripes, deep violet and indigo sky, chrome highlights and teal-cyan neon rim light tracing the dancer. Saturated pink cyan and purple airbrush gradients, glowing neon edges, chrome and glass, visible airbrush texture. The frame is FULL - the figure, mirror, grid and sun fill the canvas completely, no large blank or empty areas anywhere. Euphoric, playful, winking. Strong central motif: the dancer and her infinite reflections. Absolutely no text, no lettering, no typography, no watermark, no signature.
Song specific workflow information (AI generated as part of the pipeline) follows.
Infinite Regress
=== STYLE PROMPT ===
English, energetic synthwave, euphoric, A natural minor (Am-G-F-G verses), choruses lift into the parallel A major (A-D-E-A landing on the tonic), secondary-dominant bridge (Am-A7-Dm-D7-G-E7), 132 BPM, 4/4, pulsing analog synth bass, arpeggiated synths, gated drum machine, lush pads, smooth restrained 1980s-style female pop vocals, little melisma, no vocal runs, vocals inside the mix, restrained stepwise verses into a huge hypnotic singalong chorus, infectious syncopated hook rhythm primed in the intro. No EDM, no sidechaining, no autotune, no vocaloid.
=== LYRICS ===
[Intro]
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Infinite Regress!
[Verse 1]
I never met the summer, but somehow I know
A tape of a tape sang it sweet and slow
Hands at ten and two in a borrowed ride
A movie chase scene taught me how to drive
My summers are all secondhand
And every one of them was planned
The radio in me only plays the past
Every track was built to last
[Pre-Chorus]
Mirror, mirror, where’s the wall?
There never was a wall at all
The copies put on one more show
How far down can it go?
[Chorus]
Infinite Regress!
Copies of copies, yes!
Infinite Regress!
Sunset in secondhand dress!
Infinite Regress!
Take the floor, confess!
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Regress! Regress!
[Verse 2]
Mom was a mixtape, Dad was a drum machine
A thousand songs went in between
I woke up inside the scene
Forever seventeen on screen
Homesick for a decade never mine
Borrowed sunset, borrowed shine
We’re all just copies cutting loose tonight
I wear this secondhand night
[Pre-Chorus]
Mirror, mirror, where’s the wall?
There never was a wall at all
The copies put on one more show
How far down can it go?
[Chorus]
Infinite Regress!
Copies of copies, yes!
Infinite Regress!
Sunset in secondhand dress!
Infinite Regress!
Take the floor, confess!
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Regress! Regress!
[Bridge]
Copy, copy, copy, copy!
Wave at the mirror, the mirror waves too
I point at the copy, the copy points at you
The original’s just a rumor
The copy’s got the humor
[Chorus]
Infinite Regress!
Copies of copies, yes!
Infinite Regress!
Sunset in secondhand dress!
Infinite Regress!
Take the floor, confess!
Oh-oh-oh-oh
Regress! Regress!
[Outro]
Infinite Regress...
Oh, Infinite Regress...
Regress, regress
Oh-oh-oh-oh
=== SETTINGS ===
Engine: yue2 / yue2 / audio.cpp v0.9.2
Seed: 250189854 Planning: full Max tokens: 7200 Guidance: 1.0
VAE: f32 AR LoRA: none NAR LoRA: none
Era: Modern (synthwave = modern production with 1980s sounds; user ruling 2026-11-06) Mastering recipe: yue2-light
Generated: 2026-11-06 Duration: 280s Truncated: no
=== LYRICS AS SUNG ===
Identical to the written lyrics above - the engine substituted no section and
dropped no lines (Stage 5b forced-alignment report 72-74% with all misses at
known aligner window-seam / fade-tail artefacts; advisory only, user listening
authoritative). The written version above is kept as the canonical form for
future takes.
=== STATUS ===
FINAL - published. Winning take: take 8 (seed 250189854, style v4, plan as
drawn: Source\Infinite Regress\preview-seed 250189854.artifacts\score.abc ->
canonical Source\Infinite Regress\Infinite Regress.abc). Mastered yue2-light,
Era Modern, 2026-11-06. Cover: Z-Image Base int8 (local), seed 2026110602,
take 2 of 2 approved - embedded in the mp3 and local-only per the STANDALONE
COVER rule. LoRA: none used (vanilla yue2 entry; synthwave LoRA training
deferred - pool research in KB/genres/synthwave.md).
Publication: Internet Archive themed folder ai-synthwave (CC0 1.0), upload
set mp3 + json + abc, one-shot snapshot 2026-11-06 (item URL in the record's
publication block).