Audio prompts

Instrumental background bed for a [duration] [type of video], designed to sit under narration.

TEMPO & KEY: [90] BPM, [C minor], steady, no tempo changes.
INSTRUMENTATION: soft electric piano as the main voice, warm sub bass, light brushed percussion, one sustained pad. No lead melody that competes with speech.
ARRANGEMENT: 0-4s soft entry with pad only; 4s bass and percussion join; hold a consistent groove throughout; last 4s decay to pad and a single piano note.
MOOD: focused, optimistic, unhurried. Neutral enough to loop.
MIX: mid-forward instruments kept quiet, no sharp transients, gentle high-shelf roll-off, stereo but centred low end, mastered around -16 LUFS.
EXCLUDE: vocals, risers, cymbal crashes, sound effects, key changes.

Deliver a seamless loop with matching in and out points.

Read the script below as a [age range] [accent] narrator.

VOICE: [warm / crisp / gravelly], medium-low pitch, relaxed.
PACE: [145] words per minute. Slow by 15% on any sentence containing a number.
DELIVERY NOTES
- Read as if explaining to one person across a table, not to a crowd.
- Small pause (0.4s) at each paragraph break, marked below with [pause].
- Emphasise the words wrapped in *asterisks*.
- Upward inflection only on genuine questions.
- No smiling tone on the caution sentence.

SCRIPT:
"""
[paste script with *emphasis* and [pause] markers]
"""

Output: clean read, no added words, no music, consistent room tone.

Design a single sound effect: [what the sound represents].

LENGTH: [0.4] seconds, one-shot, silence at the start and end.
CHARACTER: [material] impact with [texture] tail, [bright/dull], [organic/synthetic].
LAYERS: 1) transient click for definition, 2) body tone around [frequency], 3) short tail with [reverb type], under 200ms.
DYNAMICS: fast attack, controlled decay, no clipping, peaks at -6 dBFS.
CONTEXT: plays [when], must be audible on phone speakers and not fatiguing when heard 50 times an hour.

EXCLUDE: musical pitch that clashes with our [key] brand theme, harsh 2-4kHz, long reverb.

Provide 3 variations of increasing brightness.

You are a podcast producer. Using the transcript below, plan episode [n] of [show], a [duration] show for [audience].

DELIVER
1. Episode title options (5, under 60 characters, no colons).
2. Cold open: pick the strongest 20-second quote, with timestamps.
3. Segment map: timestamp ranges, segment name, one-line purpose.
4. Cuts: list tangents, repetitions and dead air worth removing, with timestamps and reason.
5. Chapter markers with timestamps.
6. Show notes: 120-word summary, 5 bullet takeaways, list of every resource actually mentioned.
7. Three social clips: timestamps, why each works, suggested caption under 200 characters.

RULES
- Quote the transcript exactly for anything in quotation marks.
- Never invent a resource, name or statistic that is not in the transcript.

TRANSCRIPT:
"""
[paste transcript with timestamps]
"""

Create a sonic logo for [brand], a [industry] brand described as [3 adjectives].

LENGTH: 1.8 seconds maximum.
MOTIF: [3-4] notes, rising, in [key], memorable when hummed.
SOUND PALETTE: [e.g. glass marimba plus a soft analog pad], one percussive accent, no drums.
SHAPE: quick attack, brief sustain on the final note, tail resolving into silence by 1.8s.
MIX: clean and dry with a hint of short plate reverb, works on laptop speakers and headphones, no sub-40Hz content.
VARIANTS: deliver 3 versions — full, a 0.8s short form, and a single-note notification variant using the same timbre.

EXCLUDE: vocals, whooshes, orchestral hits, anything resembling a well-known existing sting.