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The AI-Ready Producer

Books and tools
for producers in the AI era.

Practical music production books designed to load into Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok as your production mentor, plus a free Mac app that keeps the theory next to your DAW.

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Producer Tools Desktop · free for Mac

The cheat sheet that lives in your menu bar.

Camelot keys, delay times and note frequencies, one keystroke from your DAW. Press ⌘1, find the number, get back to the track. Free, with no account and no trial clock.

The same app turns a folder of samples into an Ableton Drum Rack or an MPC drum program. Three of each are on the house.

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Mac App Store. Requires macOS 14 or later. Pro is optional.

Quick Reference Harmonics tab: the Camelot wheel set to 9B G major, with the keys that mix well beside it. Quick Reference Timing tab: note lengths in milliseconds at 120 BPM and a tap tempo bar. Quick Reference Frequencies tab: every note to hertz, with A4 at 440 hertz selected.

Interactive Reference Free

Camelot wheel, scales and chords, genre playbooks and timing calculators inside the app.

Drum Rack and MPC 3 free each

Folder in, rack on a track. Export an Ableton .adg or an MPC .xpm with the samples packed.

Chop, chain, slice Pro

Two choppers, a chain maker for hardware samplers and a video slicer. $2.99 a month or $29.99 a year.

The AI-Ready Producer Series

Books that teach AI to teach you.

Load any book into Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok and turn your AI assistant into a production mentor that speaks your language. 14 mini-books. Practical, specific, no fluff.

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Ideas for Using AI in Music Production

13 practical workflows for producers, from manual library lookups to building an AI mentor project that knows your context. Free.

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SERIES

14 Mini-Books

Critical listening, mixing tools, sound design, arrangement, layering, genre guides, release strategy. The complete library for the AI-Ready Producer.

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