finishable · 2026 – now

Finishable is three programs I built and run on my own computer to finish my songs.

head to toe three masters · blind
⚖ loudness-matched

Sound on. Tap a take to switch, hold it to pick.

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1…3 switch · hold or enter to ♛ pick · r reveal · space play

One song, three masters matched to −18.7 LUFS and played blind. Pick one, then reveal which chain made which.

26 / 58of my blind, loudness-matched votes went to the untouched mix over the engineer's masters · 50 rounds · one rater

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A phone memo and the master it became: the same 18 seconds in sync, both waveforms on one scale. Switch between them as it plays.

Finishable

You own more than enough

A DAW, a wall of plugins and synths that sound better than you need, and the songs still die: lost across drives, stalled before a project exists, mixed a fourth time with no honest way to compare. No product I owned touched those three places, so I built one program for each.

You know what you've recorded

The catalog reads every recording by sound, folds the duplicates together and files the rest, so a voice memo you forgot comes back with a name.

You play before you set anything up

Drop a recording into the studio and play it as an instrument, with drums, keys and bass on one clock. Grab a loop of your last four bars, arrange it and print stems for Ableton.

You judge blind

The engineer masters a song several ways at matched loudness, puts the untouched mix among them, and you choose without knowing which is which. 50 rounds in, my picks lean toward restraint, often no processing at all. Its preferences are a file I can read, edit and overrule. The first record is in progress; the song above is on it.

under the hood

  1. rolesolo

    Designer and builder, May 2026 to now; I use it every day.

  2. stackPython

    Astro for the surfaces; Python, Pedalboard and FabFilter for the audio; Whisper for the words; Claude in the loop.

  3. the catalogby sound

    20,279 files read by sound, deduplicated and filed into five bins.

  1. the studioWeb Audio

    Drums, keys and bass on one bar clock; a found sound mapped into velocity-aware zones; loops grabbed from the last four bars, arranged on an 8-bar grid, printed as stems.

  2. the engineerblind A/B

    Loudness-matched by integrated LUFS against the untouched mix; the chain Pro-Q 3 → Pro-C 2 → Saturn 2 → Pro-L 2; the taste card, an editable file.

  3. the recordhead to toe

    Every waveform is measured from its audio file.