Build your sound from the songs that shaped it.
Chart it. Click it. Capture it. Sound Patch turns the songs you love into a library of your own patterns, then hands you one move to try next.
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Your loop sounds good. Then you get stuck.
Map how the songs you love build from verse to chorus. See what comes in, what drops out, and when. Pull rhythm patterns from any part of a song and try them somewhere new. Then the Generator hands you one move for your next section, built from your library.
Every tool is open to everyone. Use Projects to keep ideas and pattern collections together, whether it's your beat tape, your album, or a client's sound. Make a bit of everything? Start with whichever fits today.
Study the songs you love, and keep what you find.
Every great song has patterns behind it.
Think about Bruno Mars. New jack swing on 24K Magic. 70s soul with Silk Sonic. He nails each one because each one runs on its own patterns: the chords, the instruments, the rhythms, the way the songs are written.
Swap the patterns and the sound falls apart. A new jack swing record won't hit with an upright bass and a pulse on the ride cymbal. A Bob Dylan folk song won't land with an 808 and pulsing synth pads.
Every genre, every decade, every star and producer pulls from a bag of patterns. Patterns get you the familiar. Break one on purpose, add the unexpected, and something new shows up. That's how new patterns are born. It's an amazing cycle.
More tutorials didn't do it. More plugins didn't do it. The patterns were in the songs you already love.
Sound Patch helps you learn to spot those patterns, or spot them faster if you already do.
The greats learned this way too.
Long before apps, the artists we study were decoding the songs they loved.
Prince never learned to read music. He learned songs anyway.
As a teen, he bought the records he loved and copied the lyrics out by hand to see what each line was made of. Then he learned the chords as the record played. In his words: "it was the overall arrangement eye was most interested in."
The Beautiful Ones (2019)
It was slow. It's also how Charlie Parker found his sound.
He practiced up to 15 hours a day for years, working inside the chords. His breakthrough came from "using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line." That's when he could play what he'd been hearing.
The Beatles borrowed a bassline from Otis Redding. Then they made it theirs.
Their second album covered three Motown songs. Later, while making "Drive My Car," George Harrison had been listening to Otis Redding's "Respect." The bassline shows it. A borrowed move became a Beatles song.
Michael Jackson kept his ideas where he could see them.
In the biopic Michael, he's shown pinning lyric ideas, arrangement ideas, and song concepts to a board. Sound Patch is that board for what moves you in the songs you study.
Your sound isn't a mystery. It's a library.
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Chart it. Click it. Capture it.
Build the song's structure yourself. Building it teaches you.
Chart the harmony.
Build a Nashville number chart, hear the chords play back, and see the progressions you lean on.
Click the arrangement.
Instruments down the side, sections across the top. Click what you hear, and see what drops out when the chorus hits.
Capture the groove.
Click a rhythm from a song into a grid and save it to your library. Remix it into new ideas. Drill it by ear when you want to.
The Taste Loop™
Sound Patch runs on one loop. You capture what you hear, it reflects it back, your patterns pile up, and you reach for your next move.
Catch what moves you
Chart it, click it, or write it in your own words. A full breakdown, or a few notes when an idea hits away from the DAW. Sound Patch never listens to the song. You do.
Start capturingin your words. it never hears the song.
a few notes count.
Find out why it hit you
Every song you log gets named back to you. A Taste Reflection shows what's doing the work, and a Pattern Flag names the move in words you can reuse with a co-writer, a client, or an engineer.
See your patternswhy it hit you, named back.
words you can reuse.
See the moves you keep reaching for
Your patterns pile up into a Pattern Bank that's all yours. Your Style Profile shows your musical fingerprint. It starts to show around three songs and gets sharp around ten.
Build your librarythe moves you keep reaching for.
sharper around ten songs.
Get your next move
The Generator hands you one move built from your own patterns, with the reason it fits you. It shows the two sections around the move, so you see where it fits. Save the keepers to the Brain.
Get your first moveone move. try it next session.
the songs it came from.
Why building it works
Making beats reading.
What you build yourself sticks better than what you just watch or read.
Mix what moves you.
Try chords from one song, a rhythm from another, and an arrangement idea from a third. Your library gives you plenty to mix.
Pros chart by ear.
Songwriting and production programs have students chart songs by ear, because it trains how you hear.
Research: Slamecka & Graf (1978) on the generation effect; de Clercq (2019) on charting in music education.
Here's exactly what Sound Patch can and can't do.
Most AI music tools race to make the song for you. Sound Patch goes the other way. It helps you catch what you hear and use it yourself.
It never listens to anyone's music.
No uploads, no stem separation, nothing reading a waveform. I'm not training AI to make music. That's wack. I want to help you become a better music maker. You listen, you write down what you noticed, and Sound Patch works from your words. It isn't trained on anyone's music. It's trained on your ears.
It gets better with every song you add.
One song gets you a reflection. Around three, patterns start to show. Around ten, it really knows your taste.
It won't tell you about your own tracks.
It only ever sees the records you studied. It can show you what keeps pulling you in. It can't tell you what you do.
The more you tell it, the sharper it gets.
Every move comes from what you've logged. The more specific you are about what you hear, the more the moves sound like you.
The hearing is still yours.
Use it your way.
Develop your sound.
Or help a client find theirs.
Gather ideas.
For your next song, EP, or album.
Study an artist, a producer, an era, or the charts.
Log the songs in a project, see the patterns they share, and add them to your bag.
Show up to the session ready.
Share the patterns you're chasing with an artist or co-writer, and prep pitch ideas faster.
Built by a producer, for producers
"I built Sound Patch to scratch my own itch first. Almost everyone chases plugins. Almost nobody trains their ear to see the patterns. So I built the tool I wish I'd had, from inside the work, right alongside you."
Melvin Darrell, Founder of Sound Patch
Producer and songwriter. Audio specialist at REC Philly, mentoring artists who went on to sign deals. Produced records honoring the Sound of Philadelphia, met Kenny Gamble, and performed at World Cafe Live. Creator of Harmony GPS.
The more pro decisions you see, the more you'll reach for them. That takes reps.
Every time you use it, you get better at three things.
Deep listening.
Hearing what's doing the work in a song.
Pattern recognition.
Spotting the moves that keep coming back.
Taste.
Knowing what you love and why, so you can make more of it.
Get founding access
Founding pricing is open to the first 50 members.
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$99 for your first year. That's $30 off the standard $129/year. After your first year, you pay $129/year.
- Charts
- Rhythms
- Elements
- Song analysis, production and harmony
- Quick Capture
- Taste Reflection and Pattern Flag
- Pattern Bank and Style Profile
- The Generator
- The Brain
- Projects for separate libraries
- A direct line to me by email
Not feeling it? Full refund. Try it for 14 days. Log a few songs you love. If the moves don't feel useful, email me for a full refund. No hoops.
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A tool that turns your notes on the songs you love into a library of your own patterns, then hands you one move to try next, built from your taste.