Software

Focused tools, made with the same care.

I design and build small software products with AI-assisted development, from the first prototype to a tested release. Each one starts from a real problem I know first-hand.

atari2cubase

Atari songs, back in a modern DAW.

Like a lot of musicians, I started on Cubase 2.0 on the Atari ST in the ’90s, and I still had songs that nothing modern can open. atari2cubase reads those Cubase arrangements and songs, Pro-24 and Notator files, even whole disk images, and writes DAWproject and MIDI files that Cubase, Studio One and Bitwig open today.

Tracks, parts and tempo. The arrangement comes across as you left it.
Listen first. Play the song in the page before you download.
Private. Files are converted in your browser and never uploaded.

Live · free · browser, Mac and Windows

Open atari2cubase How it was made

atari2cubase: the demo song MANILOVE open, with its tracks and parts in an Atari-style Arrange window, the song facts and the download buttons

LyricsRadar

Lyrics that follow the song.

A VST3 plugin for Cubase that keeps your lyrics inside the project and turns them into a teleprompter that follows the playhead: in the plugin, full screen on a second monitor, or on the singer’s phone.

Listen, Tap or Type. Mark timing by ear, by tapping along, or in plain text.
Karaoke, prompter and phone. Readable from the vocal booth.
Saved with the song. Lyrics live in the Cubase project; audio passes through untouched.
One undo list. Every change, from any screen, can be taken back.

In development · VST3 for Cubase · Windows

LyricsRadar: the lyric sheet on the left following the song, with a bar and beat readout and timing keys on the right

LyricsRadar in Tap mode — Tap mode: hit the big key at the start of each line while the song plays.

LyricsRadar karaoke view filling words in time — Karaoke: words fill in time with the music.

Design principles

Designed for the middle of a session.

Every Contenu product shares one design system, so what you learn in one carries over to the next.

Like hardware

Labelled keys, a small readout, no menu diving. What you need is on the surface.

Derived, then corrected

The tool works things out; you fix what it got wrong. Manual input is the fallback, and everything undoes.

Built for the room

Readable from a booth or a stage: second screen, full screen, phone, and clear contrast in light and dark.

Bespoke

The same approach, beyond music

The method behind these tools works for business ideas too: a functional prototype, made quickly with AI-assisted tools, that stakeholders can use and react to before larger investments are made.

Get in touch

Contact

Questions, ideas or a conversation?

I’m always glad to hear from people working on AI, product strategy, transformation or software.

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