Generated audio
One flattened file
- The drums, bass and chords are baked into one waveform.
- Changing the bass means regenerating the whole song.
- Nothing tells you what changed between two takes.
Now in early access
The DAW you can talk to.
monody is a complete music studio with an AI engineer built in. Ask for a bassline, a warmer mix or a darker sound. It lands in your session as real notes, devices and automation you can tweak, keep or undo.
Animated demo of monody: a producer types “Add a rubbery bassline that locks with the kick”. In one edit the assistant adds a Rubber Bass track with 32 notes and four devices, lights up everything it changed, and the Before/After switch flips the project between the two states.
Not a generator
It works on your track. Not instead of it.
Music generators hand you a finished file you can’t open. monody’s assistant works inside your session, with the same tracks, clips, notes, devices and automation you use by hand. Nothing gets flattened, nothing is hidden, and you can take over at any point.
A monody session
Every part, still a part
- Real parts — tracks, clips, notes, devices and automation.
- Change one note, keep everything else — then ask for more.
- See what changed: the AI’s edits light up, and Before / After flips a whole request.
How it works
Ask. Watch. Decide.
There’s no mode to switch into. The assistant lives beside your arrangement, sees what you’re looking at, and every request ends the same way: with you deciding what stays.
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Ask from anywhere
⌘K opens one box for every command, track, sound and device — anything else goes to monody. Focus chips show what “this” means right now: the clip, track or notes you have selected.
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Watch it land
Each edit appears the moment it’s made and the arrangement repaints live — this request took one model call and 3.6 seconds, start to finish.
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Keep it — or don’t
Flip Before / After to A/B the whole request. Keep it, tweak it by hand, or step back with ⌘Z — the assistant’s edits share your undo history.
Provenance
Everything it touches glows.
In monody the aurora means one thing: the AI did this. Tracks it added, notes it wrote, knobs it turned and lanes it drew light up for a few seconds — press Show to see them again, or flip Before / After to compare. You never have to guess what changed.
Request
“Add a simple melody on top of these chords, in this clip”
15 notes
Added a simple 4-bar melody to the top of that clip, in A minor pentatonic above the chords. It starts on E, dips to C, moves up to G in bar 2, and returns to A. It ends on a held G over the final chord. It plays on the same pad sound as the chords, so you may want it on its own track with a brighter preset.
Request
“Make the bass darker”
3 settings
Made the bass darker. I lowered the filter cutoff, reduced how far the filter envelope opens on each note, and rolled off the highs after the drive.
Both requests are real: the notes and settings above are exactly what the assistant wrote.On this page too, the gradient only ever marks the AI.
The studio
A real DAW, all the way through.
Everything the assistant can do, you can do by hand — and everything you do by hand, you can ask for. Arrangement, piano roll, mixer, automation and 50 effects, all driven through the same undoable commands.
Arrangement
Clips, loops and splits, multi-select and grid snap — and automation lanes for any mixer or device parameter, drawn point by point.
Mixer
Inserts, bus routing, real faders and peak meters. Solo lives in the engine, so it survives every edit and never reaches an export.
Piano roll
Note names on the notes, a velocity lane, and Space plays just this clip — looped and soloed.
50 audio effects
From Saturator, Roar and Drum Buss to EQ Eight, Grain Delay, Hybrid Reverb and Vocoder — native, and every knob reachable by hand, automation or a request.
Distortion12
Amp · Cabinet · Drive · Drum Buss · Dynamic Tube · Erosion · Overdrive · Pedal · Redux · Roar · Saturator · Vinyl Distortion
Dynamics8
Color Limiter · Compressor · Gate · Glue · Limiter · Maximizer · Multiband Dynamics · Re-Enveloper
EQ & Filters6
Auto Filter · Channel EQ · EQ Eight · EQ Three · Filter · Parametric EQ
Modulation & Pitch7
Auto Pan · Auto Shift · Chorus · Chorus-Ensemble · Flanger · Phaser · Shifter
Delay & Loop7
Align Delay · Beat Repeat · Delay · Echo · Filter Delay · Gated Delay · Grain Delay
Reverb & Resonance5
Corpus · Hybrid Reverb · Resonators · Reverb · Vocoder
Spectral3
Spectral Blur · Spectral Resonator · Spectral Time
Utility2
Gain · Utility
Library
Sounds, effects and AI recipes. Click to use one on the selected track, or drag it onto any track or chain.
Play it in
The A–K row is a polyphonic keyboard through the track’s instrument. Hold a chord; every note sustains until you let go.
Render the mix
The export runs the same audio path as playback, and solo never reaches it. Move a whole project — model and audio — as one file.
Sounds
28 sounds to start. Then roll the dice.
Every preset is a whole chain — the synth plus its effects — level-matched by rendering, so switching sounds keeps a consistent volume. Or roll the dice: monody builds a new patch that fits the part, bass for a low line, keys or pads for chords, a lead for a melody. ⌘Z brings the last one back.
- Oscillators
- Two band-limited oscillators, plus noise and a sub
- Unison
- Up to seven voices, born in stereo
- Filter
- A resonant 12 / 24 dB ladder with its own envelope
- Motion
- An LFO, mono and legato modes with glide
- Renders
- Deterministic to the sample — same patch, same audio
Sounds
28 presetsBass
- Sub Bass
- Deep House Bass
- Reese
- Acid
- Rubber Bass
- Wobble
Keys
- Electric Piano
- Organ
- Glass Keys
- Clav
Pads
- Warm Pad
- Synth Strings
- PWM Pad
- Dream Pad
- Breathy Air
Leads
- Saw Lead
- Square Lead
- Trance Lead
- Whistle Lead
- Chiptune
- Hoover
Plucks & Stabs
- Dry Pluck
- Techno Stab
- Dub Chord
- Marimba
- Bell
FX & Textures
- Noise Riser
- Dark Drone
Wobbly Low End, a bass sound: Wobbly, Gritty. Chain: Synth, Drive, Utility, Limiter.
Under the hood
Built like an instrument. Tested like one.
An AI you trust with your session needs a studio that can’t be surprised. monody is a C++ engine built contract-first, with hundreds of tests and millions of assertions behind every guarantee on this page.
One gate for every change
A fader move, a pasted clip, a note the assistant writes: each one is a command that is validated, logged and exactly invertible — so you and the AI share one history, and one undo.
Deterministic to the sample
Playback and export run the same audio path. A golden-render test flags any change to the reference mix, and block-size fuzzing checks the output never depends on buffer size.
Real-time safe
The audio thread never allocates memory — a tripwire test fails if it does — and never waits on a lock. Edits reach the engine as snapshots swapped in atomically, so the music keeps playing while you, or the assistant, work.
Your project is a folder
A JSON snapshot, an append-only command log and content-addressed audio. The studio runs on your machine, offline; only the assistant needs a connection.
Speaks MCP
monody is an MCP server. On Pro and Studio, point Claude Code — or any MCP client — at it and drive the whole studio through the same gate. Every change lands as one labeled step, tagged as the AI’s, one undo away.
$ claude mcp add --transport http monody http://127.0.0.1:8710/mcp
- get_project
- run_commands
- transport
- apply_sound_preset
- undo
- redo
- render_wav
Roadmap
What’s in, what’s next.
monody ships in milestones, and every feature lands with its AI and its hands-on controls at the same time. Here’s what’s in the build today, and what’s next.
In the build today
- Arrangement, piano roll and automation lanes
- Mixer with buses, routing and engine-side solo
- 50 audio effects and a deep polyphonic synth
- 28 level-matched sounds, plus random ones
- The assistant, with Before / After on every request
- ⌘K palette, Library and built-in AI recipes
- An MCP server for outside AI tools
- Offline render and one-file project export
- Audio import: drop WAV, AIFF, FLAC or MP3 on the arrangement
On the roadmap
- Sends, returns and sidechain
- Audio recording and comping
- Warping and time-stretch
- Session view and clip launching
- Synthesized drums and a sampler
- Stem separation and sample tools
- AU / VST3 plugin hosting
Pricing
The whole DAW is free.
Every instrument, effect and sound comes with the Free plan. Pay for unlimited tracks and more AI, and cancel any time.
Free
The whole DAW. Try the AI.
$0
No card needed
Get early access- Every instrument, effect and sound
- Up to 8 tracks
- 50 AI credits a month
- Export to WAV, FLAC or AAC, with stems
Pro
For producers who make music with monody every week.
$14.99/ month
or $149 a year
Get early access- Unlimited tracks
- 1,000 AI credits a month
- Use monody from Claude and other MCP apps
- Everything in Free
Studio
AI as a daily collaborator, with the deepest model.
$29.99/ month
or $299 a year
Get early access- 2,500 AI credits a month
- Deep mode: the most capable model for arrangements
- Early access to new features
- Everything in Pro
More AI when you need it
Credit packs are one-time top-ups, used after your monthly credits, and they don’t expire while your account is open.
500 credits$6.992,000 credits$24.99
1 AI credit = $0.01 of model usage at list price, rounded up per request. A simple edit is about 1–2 credits; a 16-bar part about 5.Prices in USD. Paddle, our reseller and merchant of record, handles payment and tax. See the Terms and Refund Policy.
Questions
Questions, answered.
Is monody a whole DAW, or a plugin?
A whole DAW: arrangement, piano roll, mixer, automation, 50 built-in effects, a synth with 28 presets, rendering and project export. The Free plan includes all of it, up to 8 tracks. It doesn’t record audio or host third-party plugins yet — both are on the roadmap.
Will the AI take over my track?
No. It only acts when you ask, it edits through the same commands you use, and everything it changes is labeled and lit up. Before / After flips a whole request at once, and ⌘Z steps back through it.
What can I ask it to do?
Write or rewrite parts, design and swap sounds, add and tune effects, set up buses and routing, draw automation, change the tempo — and explain what it did. It sees your selection, so “this” means what you’re looking at.
Can I undo what it did?
Always. A request lands as one or a few labeled steps in the same undo history as your own edits — ⌘Z steps back through them, and Before / After flips the whole request at once so you can compare.
How do AI credits work?
Each request uses credits for the model usage it costs: 1 credit = $0.01 at list price, rounded up per request. A simple edit is about 1–2 credits, a 16-bar part about 5. Free includes 50 a month, Pro 1,000 and Studio 2,500; credit packs top you up and don’t expire while your account is open.
Does it need an internet connection?
The studio doesn’t: editing, playback, rendering and export run on your own machine. The assistant does — it runs on Anthropic’s Claude through monody’s servers and needs a free account. Paid plans keep working offline and check in at least every 14 days.
Can other AI tools control monody?
Yes, on Pro and Studio. monody is an MCP server, so Claude Code or any MCP client can read the project and run the same commands — each change still lands as one labeled, undoable step.
What does it run on?
macOS today, with a Windows version on the way. Tell us what you’re on when you ask for access.
How do I get it?
monody is in early access. Email us with what you make and what you use today — that’s the whole form.
Make the record you hear in your head.
monody is in early access. Tell us what you make — we’d love to hear it.