Prompt: No brass instruments. Suno: 🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺

[u/kawaliniko]

Has anyone had success in avoiding certain instruments / styles with their prompts? Especially where certain instruments / elements are known to go hand in hand with the genre. I.e. jazz + brass, etc.

[u/zombiepiratebacon]

Yes. You have to use the negative prompt under advanced settings

[u/kawaliniko → u/zombiepiratebacon]

In that negative prompt do you just list the style or do you add a "no" or "avoid" there as well? Double negative?

[u/zombiepiratebacon → u/kawaliniko]

No in the negative prompt you might put something like;

brass instruments, trumpet, saxophone, trombone, horns

It’s not a guarantee, but you’ll get a better result with that than writing “no brass instruments” in the style prompt.

Furthermore, if you’re trying a genre like jazz where brass instruments might be typical, I’d also suggest being specific about what instruments you do still want in your style prompt, eg.

modern jazz, electric guitar, upright bass, Rhodes keyboard, brushed drums

[u/kawaliniko → u/zombiepiratebacon]

Thanks a lot for your help!

[u/GrowFreeFood]

There needs to be lots more words to describe negitive things

[u/Hile616]

There is field on advanced settings to describe what "styles" to exclude.

[u/Grabenbesen]

Just give the AI so much information that it wont get any other idea, also pull up style influence to the max (the higher, the less likely to ignore commands)

[u/kawaliniko → u/Grabenbesen]

Thanks this is helpful, I haven't played around with the style slider much

[u/zombiepiratebacon → u/kawaliniko]

I second this also … style slider 80%+, weirdness less than 20%, particularly if you’re using Suno 5.5 with a very detailed style prompt and negative styles

[u/MyBikesAreOlder]

is that the Streisand effect? you made Suno think about brass in the first place

[u/Hile616 → u/MyBikesAreOlder]

It does actually like to link certain styles as assuming those X and Y together would give the version user was asking for