Suno adds MIDI export and a lyric co-writer
By Steven Van ·
The recap also covers advanced stem separation, screenshot-to-song, and CarPlay/Android Auto support.
Suno posted a recap of what it has shipped recently across web and mobile, and it doubles as a good checkpoint for how fast the platform has been moving: better stem separation, MIDI export, a lyric co-writer, screenshot-to-song, and in-car support via CarPlay and Android Auto.
Advanced stem separation, and stems as MIDI
Suno already overhauled stem separation in June, moving from isolating frequencies to regenerating each stem from scratch for cleaner, artifact-free splits. The advanced separation in this round pushes that further, and pairing it with MIDI export is the bigger unlock for producers: pull a song's drums, bass, or melody out as an editable MIDI file instead of just an audio stem, then rebuild the arrangement with your own instruments and plugins in a DAW.
A lyric co-writer that remembers what you wrote
The Lyric Co-Writer ships alongside autosave, which matches what Suno rolled out on web on July 9: a full-screen lyrics editor with natural-language editing and a way to save your own writing style. Together they turn lyric writing into an ongoing draft instead of a single-shot generation, closer to writing in a real editor than prompting a model once and hoping.
Screenshot to Song and CarPlay, recapped
Screenshot to Song, which turns any image or block of text into a song with lyrics, has been live since April. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto support landed in May, letting you stream your library and control playback from the car. Their inclusion here signals Suno treating this as a running highlight reel of the app's full feature set, not only what shipped this week.
Why the pace matters
Individually, none of these is a headline feature. Together they describe a tool that has quietly become closer to a full production surface: generate a song, pull it apart into stems and MIDI, rewrite the lyrics with a real editor, and listen to the result on your commute. For anyone treating Suno as a sketch tool rather than a finishing tool, the stem-plus-MIDI combination is the one worth testing first.
Sources: Suno on X, Suno Release Notes.