🚧 Draft — not final. This page was auto-generated as day-one scaffolding for the project and still needs a human pass before it reads as finished. The blanks and placeholders below are intentional — someone who runs this project should fill them in and delete this notice.

Track 01 — first finish

The whole point of Track 01 is to reach exported — a real file, start to end — not to be good. Scope kept deliberately tiny so finishing is possible in a weekend, not a season.

Scope

• Length: eight bars, looped into a ~1-minute arrangement (intro → main → out).
• Instruments: three, no more — drums, a bass, one melodic part.
• Rule: no new plugin, no new gear, no "just one more layer" until it's exported once.

Pipeline (tick as it moves)

• Idea — tempo, key, and the one-line feel ("late-night, warm, unhurried")
• Arrangement — the eight bars laid out; intro/main/out marked
• Mix — levels balanced, nothing clipping; one reference track A/B'd against it
• Master — a single limiter for loudness, ears rested before the final listen
• Export — bounced to a file, dated, filed in assets/

Learned (fill as you go)

• (what the mix taught — e.g. "the bass and kick were fighting until I high-passed the bass")
• (what to do differently on Track 02)