Chord + melody generator
Music theory you can see.
Your starting point when you're stuck: chords that fit, with a lead and an 808 or bass on top, all in one piano roll, with the theory on screen. Every chord named, its job shown, the circle of fifths lit as it plays. The more you use it, the more it clicks.
Get unstuck
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Staring at an empty piano roll? Pick an artist or a mood and hit GENERATE: chords that fit, in a rhythm and voicing that suit them, with a lead and an 808 or bass on top if you want them. Keep what grabs you. Roll the dice on one chord card, or double-click it and type the chord you want.
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Four picks shape every progression. Who writes it: an artist's style or a mood. The part that plays it: just the chords, overlapping voices, chops, call and response, with a lead and an 808 or bass on top. The rhythm, from held to strummed to arps. And the voicing, from plain triads up to BIG. Change the last three and you hear it instantly, on the same chords.
See the theory
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Every chord card names what's really in the piano roll, and its job in the key. Drag one note of F#m up a half step and it's F#, a TWIST. One more and it's F#sus4. Back down and it's F#m again. You hear the change and see why it happened.
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The Chord Keys pads are numbered I to VII in your key. Drag one onto the loop and it lands where you let go. Then grab any chord on the circle of fifths and slide it to a neighbour: F#m becomes A, its card follows, and the loop plays it. You learn how chords relate by moving them around.
The essentials
Type a mood, a chord or a vibe and the library narrows as you type. Hear any preset before you load it, filter by mood, scale or key, and star your favourites. Save your own into folders, with tags.
Draw, paint, delete, slice and select with the keys of the DAW you know: FL Studio, Ableton Live, Logic Pro or Studio One. Snap, snap to key, quantize and undo.
Give each part its own sound: drop a sample on the Chords, Lead or 808 zone and Hook plays that part with it, tuned to every note. Shape it with the envelope: PLUCK, PAD, SWELL or your own.
Into FL Studio
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Drag MIDI onto any channel in FL's channel rack and the notes land in its piano roll: the chords and anything on top, as one clip. Or Drag Audio for exactly what you hear, as a WAV. Playing it on a one-shot? Drag the 1-SHOT pill onto the channel and FL builds a Sampler with the same sound, in tune, with Hook's envelope. Recorded in FL Studio, not mocked up.
Make it yours
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Seven complete looks. Same tools, a different vibe for your screen and your screen recordings.
Skin
Analog
The default: warm walnut, easy on the eyes.
Skins
No, you can start with a preset or GENERATE on day one. But Hook doesn't hide the theory, it shows it: every chord is named, its job in the key is labelled, and the circle of fifths lights up as it plays. Use it for a few weeks and you'll start to hear why a progression works, and to write your own on purpose.
No, and it isn't meant to. Hook gives you a starting point when you're stuck and shows you the theory behind it. What you keep, change and build on is up to you, and over time you'll need it less to get started and use it more to try ideas.
No. The artist folders are style studies: chords and melodies written from the way those artists tend to write, never their songs, melodies or audio. Artist names are only for reference; there's no endorsement.
Not unless you want it to. By default Hook only plays from its own play button. You can switch it to follow FL's transport or to play only while you hold a note.
Yes. The MIDI you make is yours. It's royalty-free.
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