Head Chef Your session, explained
12 strips observed

“Your kick and bass are competing below 80 Hz. I can show you three reversible options.”

Explain Recommend Leave it
Observe Recommend Verify

Built to work with Chicken Strip

A second pair of ears,
when you want one.

Head Chef is the optional companion for the wider session. It listens through Chicken Strip, explains what it hears and helps you make confident moves across tracks.

It never sits in the audio path. It never makes Chicken Strip less complete. And nothing changes without your approval.

Optional paid app · Coming later

The useful kind of AI

Hear more. Guess less.

Head Chef turns signal evidence into a conversation you can act on, ignore or challenge.

01

Observe

Head Chef sees the wider session through Chicken Strip, so the conversation starts with what is actually happening in the mix.

02

Explain

Ask why the vocal feels buried, where the low end is fighting or what changed. Get a plain answer tied to what the session is doing.

03

Recommend

See a few practical options, the tradeoffs behind them and the exact strips involved before deciding what happens next.

You stay at the console

Approve. Apply. Verify.

Head Chef can help with work across tracks, but the hand stays on your fader.

Step 01

See the move

The idea comes before the action.

Head Chef shows what it wants to change, why it thinks the move will help and which tracks are involved. You can ask for another approach or leave the mix alone.

Step 02

Approve it

Every move waits for a clear yes.

You choose what happens. Head Chef only acts after you say go, and you can leave the mix exactly as it is.

Step 03

Prove it

The result still has to sound better.

After the move, Head Chef checks the result and makes it easy to compare, keep or step back.

Chicken Strip stays standalone

The strip works
without the chef.

Every processor, every manual control and the complete phase-group workflow lives in Chicken Strip. Head Chef coordinates. It does not hold features hostage.

  • Never in the audio pathYour sound does not pass through Head Chef.
  • You stay in controlRecommendations are yours to accept or ignore.
  • Chicken Strip stays completeEvery manual mixing tool remains in the plug-in.
  • Head Chef stays optionalSave, recall and mix without it.

Head Chef comes later

First, finish the strip.

Chicken Strip is the complete free plug-in on every track. Help us make its first REAPER beta rock solid.

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