Musician · guitarist · builder · Singapore

Building products across music, learning, and software.

Selected work

Products built from the signal path out.

Songscript running on macOS with its lead-sheet editor open

Music software

In development

Songscript

Songscript joins structured notation, arrangement, rehearsal, and performance in one native product for musicians.

A macOS writing environment paired with an iPhone setlist and Stage experience.

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The live Decant grape and region explorer on desktop

Learning product

Live, open source

Decant

Decant makes grape varieties, label terms, climate comparisons, and exam practice easier to navigate.

A live static product with 30 grapes, 53 label terms, 150 questions, and eight study modes.

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The CrawlTrove self-hosted scraping dashboard

Developer infrastructure

Released v0.1 · open source

CrawlTrove

CrawlTrove combines fast HTTP extraction, browser fallback, OCR, and searchable corpus metadata in one self-hosted service.

A public v0.1.0 release with Docker setup, a dashboard, a JSON API, and 60 tracked test modules.

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Leadsheet rendering a CJK ChordPro chart in Obsidian light and dark themes

Music software

Released v0.5 · open source

Leadsheet

Leadsheet renders transposable, capo-aware charts with chord diagrams, set lists, and hands-free autoscroll inside Obsidian.

Listed in Obsidian Community Plugins, with five public releases and CJK-safe chord alignment.

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Capabilities

  • Product direction
  • Native Apple platforms
  • Real-time audio + DSP
  • Full-stack web products
  • Learning systems

About

A human who loves creating.

I’m Chris Amber, a musician, guitarist, and builder based in Singapore. I make products, interfaces, and systems—often where music, learning, and software meet.

My current focus spans native music tools, real-time audio, and learning products that turn complex material into usable practice.

Now

What I’m playing, building, and exploring.

Playing
Learning guitar through songs.
Building
Songscript, a native workspace for writing and performing songs.
Exploring
How tools can make creating and learning feel more natural.

Contact

Have a focused product worth building?

Open to select collaborations.

hello@chrisamber.dev