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

Songwriting
Songwriting Prompts
200+ specific prompts across 8 categories — draw at random or browse by theme
Songwriting
Song Title Generator
Algorithmic titles by mood — Dark, Tender, Restless, Surreal, Defiant and more
Music Theory
Chord Progression Library
Browse real progressions by genre and mood — transposable, playable, with loop
Music Theory
Circle of Fifths
Interactive — click any key to hear it, explore diatonic chords and neighbours
Production
Drum Machine
Browser drum machine — 8 tracks, 16 steps, swing, presets, WAV export
Production
Drone Generator
Layer harmonic intervals over a root note — sine, triangle, sawtooth, 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
Songwriting
11 modules
Modules for every stage of writing a song — prompts to start, techniques to develop, tools to refine the words, and constraints to spark creativity.
Music Theory
9 modules
Scales, chords, progressions, intervals and the circle of fifths — all interactive, most with audio so you can hear what you're looking at.
Production
14 modules
Drum machines, tone generators, timing tools, mixing references and everything that helps you build, shape and refine a production.
Business & Admin
6 modules
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
Tensora is a free ambient pad instrument built for depth and stillness. A reverb-soaked sound…
Epiglow
Epiglow is a layered atmosphere instrument built from a Gibson/Epiphone semi-hollow guitar. Recorded clean and…
Cavern Flute
Cavern Flute is a Decent Sampler instrument built from a simple but effective idea —…
Umbra
Umbra is a deep, ethereal pad — dark, unhurried, and quietly haunting. The name means…
Delta Waves
Delta waves sit at the slowest end of the brainwave spectrum between 0.5 and 4…
Veiled Bell
This instrument is available to purchase individually via Gumroad, or included as part of the…
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Transmissions

Latest Transmissions

11 Jun 2026
The Second Song Problem
The first song you finish doesn’t feel like work. It feels like discovery — like you reached into some dark space and pulled something out…
11 Jun 2026
Constraints as Freedom
Jack White decided the White Stripes would only use guitar, drums, and voice. No bass. No keyboards. No overdubs beyond the most minimal exceptions. Critics…
10 Jun 2026
The Ghost Note
There’s a note that every experienced drummer plays but no audience member consciously hears. It has a name — the ghost note — and it…
10 Jun 2026
Why the I–V–vi–IV Works
There is a chord progression that has soundtracked more of human experience than any other sequence of notes in history. Four chords, played in the…
10 Jun 2026
Writing in the Dark
You’ve been staring at the page for an hour. Nothing comes. The harder you concentrate, the emptier your mind gets. You try a different chord.…
10 Jun 2026
Bowie’s Verbasizer: The Machine That Wrote in the Gaps
In 1995, David Bowie sat in front of a Mac laptop running a programme nobody outside his circle had ever seen. He typed sentences into…