[vunderba]

I've mentioned it before on HN, but Sid Meier worked on an application called (appropriately enough) CPU Bach for the 3DO that would algorithmically generate endless contrapuntal music all the way back in 1994.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.P.U._Bach

[ranma42]

In a similar vein, there is https://aminet.net/package/mus/misc/AlgoMusic2_4u.lha, from ~96 or so.

[zvitiate]

Ohhh this looks very cool. Thank you for sharing! Will dive into this over the weekend.

[dagelf]

It's almost week-end! But I'm pretty sure these were shared merely as historical anecdotes, and that Suno 4.5 is the bleeding edge here...