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Write ideas
Studios that generate, edit and export MIDI. Start here when you want notes to drag into Ableton.
- NewLatest
Talk — tech house bass and hooks
Make the bass talk: 14 tech house loops through a formant filter that says wah, ow and yeah, eight moves that keep one loop alive for a whole drop, and a mic booth that turns your three words into eight chart-style hooks, chopped, pitched and taking turns with the bass. MIDI with bend and CCs, WAV stems.
talk.html
Notes: TALK.md - NewLatest
Pocket — a foundation for your riff
Keep your Orbit riff’s patch and harmony. Eight foundations that follow its accents, rests and chords, with a rave mode for dense arps, 16-bar development, bass edits, MIDI and WAV stems.
pocket.html
Notes: POCKET.md - NewLatest
Orbit — the arpeggio studio
Arps, riffs and sequences for 14 genres, 333 patterns: 85 tech house, 45 techno (sparse three-note riffs to peak-time), Dub and Detroit techno. Tagged and searchable by section, a note cycle against a step pattern, a measured genre fingerprint, a generator, 37 sounds with Serum 2 and Ableton recipes, and the Song sketch: any idea rewritten for every section of a track, measured, and exported as one arranged MIDI.
orbit.html
Notes: ORBIT.md - V3
Motif Studio
Write a two-bar motif, then grow it into an 8- or 16-bar phrase. 69 styles, 120 artist perspectives, 59 preview voices and 19 drum kits.
fieldwork-v3.html
Notes: VERSION-3.md - New
Trance — beyond the ordinary
12 supplied melodies plus 16 studies across eight trance styles: 168 arranged sketches with chords, bass and drums, 24 artist perspectives and 16 sound recipes.
trance.html
Notes: TRANCE.md - V2
V2 Studio
1,760 MIDI recipes across 24 genres and 32 artist profiles, with five coordinated parts, 48 instruments and 16 drum kits.
studio-v2.html
Notes: VERSION-2.md - V2
Melody lab
Hooks, riffs and arpeggios. Shape the rhythm first, then develop the phrase.
melody-v2.html
- V2
Harmony lab
48 harmonic paths across 24 styles, with bass and melody in context.
chords-v2.html
- V2
Bass lab
18 bass articulations and 96 starting recipes, from sub to acid.
bass-v2.html
Listen & analyse
Take a reference track apart: tempo, key, arrangement, groove, harmony, low end and loudness, measured in your browser.
- New
X-Ray — look inside a reference track
Drop in an MP3, WAV, FLAC or AAC. Get the arrangement in bars, drum pattern and swing, chords, kick note, LUFS and tonal balance; A/B it against your mix; export a skeleton MIDI for Ableton.
xray.html
Notes: XRAY.md - New
Blueprint — the arrangement and every move in it
Drop in a reference track. Get its arrangement drawn bar by bar and every transition move found: filter sweeps with their cutoff traced, risers, rolls, gaps, delay throws, stutters, tape stops, sidechain and width, each with a recipe for Live.
blueprint.html
Notes: BLUEPRINT.md
Drums & low end
Rhythm, kick and bass.
- Studio
The Kit — drum studio
48 style studies, 192 pattern takes, nine synthesized kits, a morph lab and Splice search guidance.
drum-library.html
Notes: DRUM-STUDIO.md - Lab
Rumble
Techno rumble laboratory: 24 sound studies, 10 motion modes, one-track Ableton racks and WAV stems.
rumble.html
Notes: RUMBLE.md - Guide
Low End
Kick and bass as one instrument: tuning, sidechain and phase, measured.
low-end.html
- Guide
Groove
Placement, length and velocity. 25 playable patterns and a 32nd-note workbench.
groove-cheatsheet.html
- Guide
Pattern Bank
66 rhythmic building blocks across 29 genres, with a four-slot melting pot.
groove-vol2.html
Sound design
Build the sounds themselves.
- V2
Sound Design V2 — Serum 2
48 house and techno recipes, step-by-step builds, eight techno rumble studies and an eight-week course.
serum-v2.html
Notes: SOUND-DESIGN-V2.md - Guide
Serum 2 — the 90% path
The original Serum guide: a six-move build order, 22 recipes and six A/B demos.
serum.html
- Guide
Patch
A subtractive + FM synth with ten patches that build themselves one stage at a time.
patch-lab.html
- Guide
The Cut
Chopping, warping and slicing, with real onset detection and a granular stretcher.
sampling.html
Melody, harmony & playing
How notes relate, and getting them under your fingers.
- Guide
Melody
Rhythm, contour and development, with 25 rhythm cells and a phrase builder.
melody.html
- Guide
Voicing
Progressions and voice leading. Same four chords, 68 semitones of movement down to 12.
chords.html
- Guide
Between
How two parts relate: one melody against 12 harmonies, collisions, motion and register.
between.html
- Guide
In Key
Transposing samples: the exact Transpose value, a clash meter and the Camelot wheel.
inkey.html
- Guide
Keyboard
Play from zero on a two-octave controller. Web MIDI input, 30 progressions and scored drills.
keyboard.html
Arrange & finish
Structure, order of work and development.
- Guide
Arc
Arrangement and transitions: a section map, eight templates and twelve transitions.
arrangement.html
- Guide
Build Order
What to touch first, and why, with A/B labs, a session timer and a constraint spinner.
buildorder.html
- Guide
The Move
24 rhythm and harmony transformations, each heard as a strict A/B.
the-move.html
- Sheet
Disco house
The original one-page disco house reference sheet.
disco-house-cheatsheet.html
- V1
Field guide index
The original V1 index: search the guides, the "I have a problem" table and reading paths.
field-guides-v1.html
Notes & documentation
Written workflow, design decisions and validation for each release.
- READMEWhat is in this folder and how it fits together.
README.md - TODO: pages to buildRanked wish list of new pages and folder-wide features.
TODO.md - Talk notesThe tech house room: the talking bass, the hook booth, what is measured and the limits.
TALK.md - Pocket notesWriting a foundation around a riff: composition, sound, exports and limits.
POCKET.md - Orbit notesThe arpeggio studio: the model, the bank, the song sketch, the fingerprint, the generator and how it was validated.
ORBIT.md - Fieldwork V3 notesMotif Studio workflow, design decisions and limits.
VERSION-3.md - Fieldwork V2 notesV2 workflow, catalog structure and Ableton setup.
VERSION-2.md - Artist studiesThe V2 artist roster, sound bank and MIDI pack.
ARTIST-STUDIES.md - Trance notesTrance room contents, exports and validation.
TRANCE.md - X-Ray notesWhat X-Ray measures, how, and how it was validated.
XRAY.md - Blueprint notesEvery move Blueprint finds, how, and how each detector was validated.
BLUEPRINT.md - Drum studio notesThe Kit: workflow and validation.
DRUM-STUDIO.md - Rumble notesRumble lab workflow and validation limits.
RUMBLE.md - Sound Design V2 notesScope, start-here steps and validation.
SOUND-DESIGN-V2.md - V1 field guidesEvery original guide described in detail.
FIELD-GUIDES-V1.md - Serum 2 handbookThe full written sound-design handbook.
Serum-2-Sound-Design-Handbook.md
MIDI packs
Ready-made libraries to unzip straight into your Ableton User Library.
- V3 style studies1,104 MIDI files: 552 ideas, melody + full sketch.
Fieldwork-V3-1104-Style-Studies.zip · 2.9 MB - V3 artist studies960 MIDI files: 480 ideas, melody + full sketch.
Fieldwork-V3-960-Artist-Studies.zip · 2.5 MB - Trance sketches168 four-part trance sketches: 16 studies × six treatments + 12 sources.
Fieldwork-Trance-168-Sketches.zip · 314 KB - V2 MIDI library480 genre clips + 24 five-part sketches.
Fieldwork-V2-504-MIDI-Library.zip · 721 KB - V2 artist studies1,280 clips + 32 five-part sketches.
Fieldwork-V2-Artist-Studies-1312-MIDI.zip · 2.1 MB