Vibe-Coded Music

You’re a hobbyist musician and programmer, and you want to make a full album using only vibe-coded tools. You start by vibe-coding a DAW, the digital workstation software where all the work happens. Then you vibe-code an FM synthesizer plugin, where you’ll actually produce the sound of your music. To help you create harmonies, you vibe-code a plugin that shows harmonic fields around the chord you’re playing, suggesting possible progressions. You request a feature to add color to the chords, making them sound more sophisticated. Now an arpeggiator to add more dynamics to the chords. Of course you need a compressor and an equalizer to shape the sound coming out of the synth. Then some effects, so you vibe-code plugins for delay, reverb, and chorus. For the mixing stage, you need to be sure you see well what’s going on with your music, so you vibe-code a good spectrogram and a LUFS visualizer. It’s all looking good now, you can finally start making some music. But to help with that part,…

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