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Dear BIAB friends and music colleagues, It's been a while ... in fact, well into last year since I've shared a song on here ... so, first of all, let me wish you all a Happy New Year 2026. Hope it's all you dream of, and more, in every way. Me, I've kept writing with BIAB, as usual. However, in December, something happened which made me stop writing for a while. This is the first song I've written since. I've also discovered Suno, in the meantime, and I've put a number of my songs (all of which written with BIAB) through it, too, just to see what it does with them, if nothing else. Some results were great, others not quite so. I've kept the "good", discarded the "bad". In any case, I've been a little reticent to post songs which I've put through Suno on here, simply because the final production was not BIAB. However, I have been encouraged to post this one. I hope this is ok, because, although the final production is Suno's, I have written the backing track of this (and of all my songs, in fact) with BIAB. Without BIAB, none of my music would even have taken off the ground. If there is indeed a problem with me posting songs produced in this way, however, please of course do not hesitate to let me know. In any case, enough verbiage from me ... here is the song. All feedback, as always, is really welcome. Thank you so much for taking of your time with it  SoundCloud link: Could Not Miss You More Lyrics: COULD NOT MISS YOU MORE The evening's drawing softly in, I ask myself: "ah, where have you been?" The wound is fresh, and I still think of you, And I do wonder: "what is it that I didn't do?" I'm stuck here, waiting by the telephone, Knowing well that I'll never hear your tone, You walked this Earth, and played by your own rules, And, now you've left this toughest of all schools I am alone, an only child, again ... My tears run free, but it is now in vain; And as you gently open one more door Inside my soul ... I could not miss you more. *** I wait for you, for, surely, you'll pick up, We'd talk again ... no more, this bitter cup ... We'd laugh and cry, we'd share things, as before, And I could tell you all my thoughts, once more, You would complain, for this world was far too tough For your kind soul; and yet, you'd call its bluff ... Your sense of humour, of it, I would never tire ... And now you've gone, flying forever higher, I am alone, an only child, again ... My tears run free, but it is now in vain; And, as you gently open one more door Inside my soul ... I could not miss you more. ****** Song Summary ************* Title: I Could Not Miss You More - 3 February 2026 File:I Could Not Miss You More - 3 February 2026.SGU Key=C , Tempo 85, Length (m:s)=3:51 No intro. 78 bar chorus, from bar 1 to bar 78. Repeat x1 chorus No Melody No Soloist track. Song is saved with Volume, Pan, Reverb, Chorus, Bank0, Song is saved with bar changes for Volume Changes, Style is _DIFFER.STY (Differ Eloquent Songwriter Piano) RealTracks in style: 3121:Bass, Acoustic, PopHalfNotesPush Ev 085 RealTracks in style: 4903:Piano, Acoustic, Rhythm SongwriterPopBalladJohn ev 85 RealDrums in style:BrushesPop8ths: a: Swirl b: BrushesPop8ths ******************* I slowed down the tempo, from 85 bpm to 60 bpm, later in production.
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It's a very beautiful song with a lovely voice and beautiful arrangements. Personally, on the forum, I keep most of the BIAB accompaniments and add Suno's vocals and a few other arrangements.
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Hi, James.
A lovely song - excellent lyrics and a gentle melody.
Having used Suno, I'm never sure how to respond to posts that use it. Do I mention the arrangement (that Suno did), or the singing (which Suno did).
I'm curious about your process. Specifically, how did you get the melody into Suno? Did you sing it yourself, or use a synthetic voice and have it re-do it?
The vocal has a bit of a rasp and a feels heavily processed - something I've noticed from other Suno vocals. I suspect it comes from having been trained on so much pitch corrected music.
In any event, it's a touching song.
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James,
That's a beautiful song. Very touching...
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James, all I can say is WOW!
This is masterpiece for sure
Loved that intro, the arrangement, and the lyrics.
That piano and cello are icing on the cake.
Fantastic use of AI.
IMHO this is your best write to date
Loved it
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James, this is amazing. I feel like it's everything you've sought to attain in music but found yourself previously fettered. I hear you all over it, regardless of Suno. I can't say enough good about it, it's truly touching.
As Laurent stated, for participating on this forum, I personally think the best policy is to use BIAB for everything except the vocals, which are then left to Suno. You have to separate the stems in order to do that, if you don't already know. Separate the vocal stem from the instrument stems, download the vocal stem, and place it into your DAW. It can get trickier than that, but that's the short of it.
Even if you use BIAB for the instruments and only use Suno for vocals, some on this board will not comment on your songs.
Welcome back!
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James, beautiful song. Gentle, contemplative and VERY sweet. The vocals are overall quite nice, with only a couple of bothersome glitches around the 3:00 mark. I'm one of the forum members that will listen to a Suno vocal over a BiaB backing track, but not a Suno cover. Well...usually. Know a lot of folks in our demographic are navigating the AI music maze and figuring things out. Generative AI in music creation is indeed a "disruptive technology", and the end state is not yet known...
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It still sounds like one of your songs.
The chord choices, phrasing and lyric shout JAMES DID THIS.
It's a sweet thing.
Cheers
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Thanks, Laurent. Keeping the BIAB accompaniment is a thought.
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Thanks, David. You can always comment on the writing (music and lyrics) itself, as you have indeed done here, perhaps? Firmly tongue-in-cheek, though, as I can well appreciate the difficulties you fairly raise I recorded the vocal myself, mixed it with the BIAB backing track I created, and put the resulting mixed track into Suno. And yes, I noticed the "rasp" in the final vocal, too! No idea whether that's just a reflection of my own voice timbre, or whether, as you say, Suno has had one too many autotune vocals as its "teacher" ... ... Thanks so much for your kind comments, and for taking the time to comment!
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Ah, you know how I feel about this beautiful song, James. Like others have said, it is obviously a James Delsono masterpiece. Your style, feeling and writing are proudly present. YES, of course I told you to post this in spite of the fact that you have removed the BiaB tracks --where you wrote the song. You are a valuable member of this forum, and your use of this program is evident. You never would've been able to get SUNO to come up with this fine rendition without first creating it in BiaB. This song is the best you've ever created, and your motivation for it is evident. Your sister was obvioulsy a truly wonderful person.
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Welcome back! No other song on this forum has touched me this much for a long long time. Doesn't matter whether you used SUNO or not, when everything sounds it is recognizably your song with the most beautiful lyrics, melody and chords. As I've said before, it's the song that counts, not the tools used to making it...
"And as you gently open one more door/Inside my soul ... I could not miss you more" - this is deeply emotional and powerful. And Suno just highlights your superb songwriting skills raising this song to the same professional level as any of the greatest ballads ever written. Thanks for tears, thanks for beauty.
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Bob, thank you. Really appreciate your feedback, and that you took time to listen.
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Mario ... my word, thank you. I'm SO glad you liked it. I really wanted to "get this one right", as it were ... so I'm so happy that it resonated with you. God bless.
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Very nice song, James.
Sad but nice.
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Beautiful, touching song. Love the lyrics. As far as the use of AI is concerned, I don't care. Either I like a song or I don't. Since this is a BIAB forum, I have limited myself to AI vocals and try to use BIAB or my own noodling for the rest. But some people refuse to comment on a song as soon as they see "AI" written somewhere. Get used to it
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TuneMonger: thank you ever so much for such incredibly nice and kind words. Yes, it does feel like this song is more "me", if that makes sense. I'm so glad you liked it. Yes (as I wrote to Laurent, also), that suggestion is a thought. I may just do that (use only the Suno vocals on a BiaB background), when posting here. Thank you for listening, for commenting, and (last but not least) your kind words in welcoming me back
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Ron: thank you I'll have to listen out for the glitches ... they completely passed me by, lol ... see, that's why it's so good to have another, fresh musical ear to listen to our songs! My take with AI is as follows: if you generate the song without any personal input, then that's not your song. But if you've written melody, accompaniment, lyrics, etc., and all the AI does is polish and arrange it, then (to the extent of your personal contribution to the song) that song is yours. There is, I find, a difference between composing and arranging . Besides, it's not like we write every note ourselves, when using BiaB, either ... although BiaB renders what we do write much more faithfully than Suno (the latter has a habit, for good or for bad, of "correcting (what it sees as) one's mistakes" in music theory, etc., when it thinks it has spotted them . For me, as someone who likes to experiment with more unusual chord progressions from time to time, that particular habit of Suno's is not fun ... and, as I wrote, BiaB renders exactly what you write, almost all of the time [it does have its moments, too, haha, but far fewer than Suno's!]. At the end of the day, for me, the "end product", i.e. the SONG, is what matters. If I end up with a good song, I'm happy to even forgo my own credits, if needed, so long as my concept of what I wanted is realised. I don't care about "personal glory", haha ... I do care about the end result. And I will never ever publish a song I don't like ... especially not under my own artist name, haha ... regardless of how it's been done. So ...
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Ray: thanks
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Marty: THANK YOU. And yes, you are absolutely spot on: I would not have been able to have Suno create this version if I hadn't first created it in BiaB, for Suno to feed off, as it were.
Thank you so much for everything; for your kindness, for taking the time to listen and comment, and for such really nice comments. And yes - she was.
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