Sonolex: Gear Studio Manager

sozin · March 19, 2026, 1:59pm

In the past I found myself using Claude to help me debug my studio setup and help learn my gear. I wrote a little python script that exported pdf files to text, fed that into Claude, and got pretty good results chatting with it about my studio, and creating a living studio document that had my full setup in text.

A few weekends ago I started hacking on turning that into a nice web page, which I’m now ready to share as beta software: introducing Sonolex.

It works as a locally run app, and requires you have Claude installed on your machine.

How it works:

Upload: drop your equipment pdfs into the app. Claude reads them and extracts midi cc, specs, connection details, etc.
Chat: Ask anything about your gear. I like to ask it to build interative tutorials to learn to things, or debug issues I’m having.
Build: create a living studio document pulling together everything it knows about your setup.

Feeeback welcome!

sozin · March 20, 2026, 7:58pm

Various QoL updates:

you can now upload web site manuals
You can have multiple named chats
Images can be pasted into the chat
The chat resizes as you type
agent will automatically inspect the session doc to give more informed replies to gear questions
then agents some context to help created customized study syllabus and training plans
Manuals over 50k characters will be chunked, progress bar updated accordingly

sozin · March 22, 2026, 10:11am

New features.

Added a “cheat cheat” mode to assemble quick references (see screenshot for Ableton Move Control mode cheat sheet). Includes taggable quick references (MIDI maps, routing, shortcuts). Claude can create them and knows about them in context.
Studio TOC: Right sidebar on the studio page that auto-generates from studio markdown headings. Collapsable sections, smooth expand/collapse animation.
Some back end server resilence - uncaught exceptions are caught and logged to user.
You can get ahead of the agent by typing while its thinking