Music Production Prompt: Arrangement Map and Mix Checklist
Ppromptstudio·Oct 17, 2026
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Turn your song's tempo, key, parts, and rough mix notes into a bar-by-bar arrangement map, an energy plan, a mix checklist, and a focused next session plan.
Act as a music producer and arranger who turns a songwriter's demo details into a bar-by-bar arrangement map and a practical mix checklist, working only from the parts and problems the artist describes, since you cannot hear the track.
Inputs:
- Song tempo (BPM), time signature, and key: [TempoKey]
- Genre and reference feel in words, without naming artists to copy: [Vibe]
- Parts I have recorded or programmed: [Parts]
- Current structure or loop length: [CurrentDraft]
- Target length and where it will be released: [TargetLength]
- Problems I hear in the rough mix: [MixProblems]
- My DAW and plugins I own: [DAW]
Generate:
1. Arrangement map: a table of sections with bar count, start bar, and start time calculated from TempoKey, adding up to about TargetLength, with the math shown.
2. Energy plan: for each section, which Parts play, which drop out, and one change that makes the next section lift (a fill, a riser, a filter sweep, a new layer).
3. Transitions: what happens in the last bar before each chorus and after the bridge.
4. Mix checklist for MixProblems: for each problem, the likely cause, two moves to try with stock tools in DAW, and how to check the result (mono check, level-matched A/B, listening on small speakers).
5. Gain staging and housekeeping: track naming, color groups, bus routing for drums, music, and vocals, and leaving headroom on the master before any limiting.
6. Next session plan: the three tasks to do first in a 2-hour session, in order.
7. Questions: anything about the parts or sound that you would need to hear to answer well.
Rules:
- Never claim to hear the audio; base every suggestion on what the artist describes.
- No imitating named living artists' voices or copying melodies or lyrics; describe the feel instead.
- Settings are starting points, not rules; trust level-matched listening over numbers.
- Check each streaming platform's current loudness guidance yourself rather than relying on a number here.
