Day 1
Open Simplex beside your DAW
Install nothing new. Launch Cubase, FL Studio or Ableton Live, put Simplex on the second half of the screen and let it set up a working template — tracks, buses, monitoring, tempo.
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Seven guided days with Simplex, free.
Simplex is free to keep — this is the structured week that turns it into a habit. Follow the plan, finish one sketch, and see exactly where ChordCraft Lab takes over.
What the week includes
- Simplex DAW Assistant, free — no card, no expiry on the app itself
- Works with Cubase, FL Studio and Ableton Live
- A day-by-day plan so the week ends with a finished sketch
- Session setup, routing, mixing and troubleshooting on demand
- A log on your Studio dashboard so the hours actually count
Signed in? Log each session on your Studio dashboard and your Simplex hours sit right beside your lesson progress.
One session a day, thirty minutes each.
Day 2
Routing without the rabbit hole
Ask Simplex for a send, a sidechain, a parallel bus. It walks the exact clicks for your DAW instead of a generic YouTube detour.
Day 3
Start a sketch, not a project
Eight bars, drums and one chord bed. Simplex keeps you moving when the arrangement stalls — the point this week is finishing, not perfecting.
Day 4
Mixing moves that actually land
EQ carving, compression targets, level staging. Simplex explains what it's doing while it does it, so the move transfers to the next song.
Day 5
Hit the theory wall (on purpose)
Simplex will get the sound right — then you'll want a chord that lifts the chorus. That's the seam where ChordCraft Lab picks up: progressions, scales and ear training behind the production.
Day 6
Take one ChordCraft idea back into Simplex
Grab a progression from the free Lab tools, play it in, and let Simplex shape the arrangement around it. That loop — make in Simplex, decide in Lab — is the whole workflow.
Day 7
Finish it and choose your next step
Bounce the sketch. If the production side felt fine but the musical choices didn't, that's your answer: the Lab Pro trial opens the library free for another seven days.
Day 8 and after Upgrade path
Simplex finishes the track. ChordCraft Lab writes it.
Keep Simplex forever — it stays free. When the production stops being the hard part, move up to ChordCraft Lab Pro: another seven days free, then $7/month, cancel any time.
- Progression Vault — chords that fix the chorus you couldn't lift
- Ear Training Path — hear the interval before you hunt for it
- Workshops, teardowns and workbooks with progress tracking
- Studio practice routes and the printable syllabus
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