How we finally landed on Level Rebel
The name Level Rebel came after years of private tools, months of false starts, and one week where the name kept getting better instead of worse.
Brian Arbuckle
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Founder notes on the long path from private audio workflow tools to Level Rebel.
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Apr 28, 2026
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ChatGPT changed the rewrite, but not the taste
In 2025, ChatGPT helped me turn rough C++ and early Rust into better Rust. The real advantage was not speed. It was finally having leverage without losing taste.
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When Audio Chop Shop started showing up every day
After trying PyQt and Kivy, I landed on Tkinter and Audio Chop Shop became part of my normal client mixing workflow.
Jul 16, 2018