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Modules for Music Creativity

Free tools for songwriters, producers and musicians — to spark ideas, develop them and see them through.

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The Main Event

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Drum machines, chord progressions, ear training, lyric tools, mixing references and more. No downloads, no accounts — just open and use.

Songwriting Prompts

200+ specific prompts across 8 categories — draw at random or browse by theme

Song Title Generator

Algorithmic titles by mood — Dark, Tender, Restless, Surreal, Defiant and more

Chord Progression Library

Browse real progressions by genre and mood — transposable, playable, with loop

Circle of Fifths

Interactive — click any key to hear it, explore diatonic chords and neighbours

Browser drum machine — 8 tracks, 16 steps, swing, presets, WAV export

Polyphonic synthesiser with ADSR, filter, 8 presets, on-screen keyboard, computer keyboard mapping, MIDI support, built-in sequencer and WAV export

Business & Admin

Release Planner

7-phase release checklist — 35+ tasks from production to post-release

Business & Admin

Metadata Organiser

ISRC, ISWC, UPC, credits, splits — everything distributors need

Modules for every stage of writing a song — prompts to start, techniques to develop, tools to refine the words, and constraints to spark creativity.

Scales, chords, progressions, intervals and the circle of fifths — all interactive, most with audio so you can hear what you're looking at.

Drum machines, tone generators, timing tools, mixing references and everything that helps you build, shape and refine a production.

Business & Admin

The unglamorous work that makes the rest possible — metadata, royalties, release planning, copyright.

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Instruments

Free Sampler Instruments

Instruments built for Decent Sampler — download and play.

Tensora is a free ambient pad instrument built for depth and stillness. A reverb-soaked sound…

Epiglow is a layered atmosphere instrument built from a Gibson/Epiphone semi-hollow guitar. Recorded clean and…

Cavern Flute is a Decent Sampler instrument built from a simple but effective idea —…

Umbra is a deep, ethereal pad — dark, unhurried, and quietly haunting. The name means…

Delta waves sit at the slowest end of the brainwave spectrum between 0.5 and 4…

This instrument is available to purchase individually via Gumroad, or included as part of the…

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Transmissions

Latest Transmissions

Why Verse Two is Always the Hardest

You’ve nailed the first verse. The hook is strong, the central image is vivid, and the chorus lands with the weight you wanted. Then you…

Stealing Like a Songwriter

Robert Plant once described Led Zeppelin’s early records as a kind of excavation — digging through the American blues tradition and hauling it into a…

The First Line Problem

The first line of a song is doing something most writers underestimate: it’s making a promise. Not about the theme, or the mood, or the…

Writing for the Voice You Don’t Have

Most songwriters write for a fantasy version of themselves. They hear the melody in their head — soaring, effortless, landing on a high note that…

The Accident That Became the Sound

The history of recorded music is, in large part, a history of things going wrong at exactly the right moment. Not the polished decisions made…

The Machine That Changed Songwriting

Before the drum machine, a song had a pulse because a human being decided to give it one. The kick landed where a foot pressed…

The Frequency of Emotion

There is a moment in certain pieces of music where the floor seems to drop away. Not metaphorically — physically. A pressure in the chest,…

What Colour is Your Noise?

Somewhere between silence and sound, there is a hiss. Not an unpleasant one — more like the breath of a room, the exhale of the…

What Metadata Actually Does

The Invisible Architecture Somewhere right now, a song is being streamed. The listener found it through an algorithm, added it to a playlist, let it…