One button generates a chord progression and a melody that's built to fit it. Not a chord tool bolted to a melody tool — a whole song idea in a single click, then you drag each part out as MIDI into your own instruments.
Ghost Writer doesn't loop through a factory-preset list. Every press builds a fresh progression and a fresh melody from scratch, anchored so the melody actually lands on the chords. Hit it until something grabs you, lock the half you love, and drag the MIDI into your session.
One click draws a new chord progression and a matching melody. Every press carries a 64-bit seed, shown on screen, so a song idea is a number you can get back to.
Love the chords, not the tune? Hit CHORDS LOCK and randomize again — the melody re-anchors to the frozen chords. MELODY LOCK does the reverse. The last 16 seeds stay on screen so nothing good is lost.
Two LED screens, two drag pads. Pull the chord MIDI off one, the melody MIDI off the other, straight into your DAW as separate clips on your own instruments.
Chords on the left, melody on the right, each one a live piano-roll you can grab and drop. There's a preview instrument built in, so you hear the idea before it ever leaves the plugin.
VST3 / AU MIDI FX · drops into the MIDI FX slot in Logic, a device chain in Ableton or FL, anywhere MIDI plugins live.
What RANDOMIZE draws isn't random noise. Melodies are generated from the science of what makes a hook stick: a common contour with one signature leap, a pentatonic core, cell-based repetition, and strong beats that snap to the chord tones underneath. Sticky by construction, on any progression it draws.
One click = a full song idea: progression plus a melody that fits it. Every press gets a 64-bit seed shown on screen, and the last 16 stay in view, so a good idea is a number you can always call back.
Freeze the half you like and randomize the other. Randomize the melody and it re-anchors to the locked chords; randomize the chords and the melody moves onto the new chord tones. Iterate without losing the good part.
POP, DOOWOP, EDM, RNB, ROCK, BALLAD, COUNTRY, INDIE, TRAP, HOUSE — or ALL. The Family dial weights the progressions and grooves toward the sound you're chasing instead of a flat random draw.
Energy sets how busy the groove gets; Density thins or fills the parts live on the same seed. Nudge the feel without randomizing the whole idea — same song, more or less air.
Each LED screen is its own drag pad. Pull chord MIDI off one and melody MIDI off the other, as separate clips, straight onto your own instruments. No bounce, no export dialog.
Audition every idea on a preview instrument (or load your own) before you commit. Mute the chords or the melody to hear each on its own, ride the Sound Volume, then drag.
The chord-and-melody generators everyone compares us to are genuinely good tools. A lot of them are also rented by the month, or gated behind an upgrade tier before they'll hand you a melody. Ghost Writer is one payment, and every part of it is already unlocked.
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AU + VST3 MIDI FX — drop it on a MIDI or instrument track and it feeds notes to whatever's next. If your DAW loads MIDI plugins, it loads this one.
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No — it's a MIDI FX plugin. It writes the notes; your instruments make the sound. Drop it in front of a synth, a piano, a sampler, whatever you already love, and Ghost Writer feeds it chords and melody. There's a preview instrument built in so you can hear ideas before you drag them out.
Any DAW that loads VST3 or AU MIDI effects: Logic Pro (MIDI FX slot), Ableton Live, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, Reaper, and more. In some hosts it lives in a device chain ahead of your instrument. Not Pro Tools: Pro Tools only loads AAX plugins, and we do not make an AAX build.
Most tools hand you a progression and stop. Ghost Writer generates the progression and a melody that's anchored to those exact chords in one click, lets you lock either half and randomize the other, and drags both out as separate MIDI clips. The melody isn't decoration — it's built to sit on the chords.
No. Chord progressions aren't copyrightable, and the melodies are generated from statistical DNA — contour shapes, rhythm cells, scale and chord-tone rules — not by copying or interpolating any real melody. What comes out is yours.
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