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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 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

432 vs 440: The Real Story

Somewhere on the internet, someone is insisting that 440 Hz is a Nazi mind control frequency designed to make you anxious and disconnected from nature.…

Cliché as Tool

Every songwriting tutor will tell you to avoid clichés. They’re right, and they’re wrong, and the difference between those two positions is the difference between…

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…

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…

There’s a note that every experienced drummer plays but no audience member consciously hears. It has a name — the ghost note — and it…

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…

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.…

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…