Session sharing between players
Peer-to-peer sessions with one shared transport and clock. It already runs across machines on a local network; sharing whole sessions between bandmates, then across the internet, comes next.
Private beta · macOS
JAMNet Studio™ The Multimedia Workstation purpose-built for musicians, bands, performers, songwriters, producers, sound engineers, stage techs, streamers and collaborators
Every mic and every camera is recorded against your audio interface's own sample clock, so the take you capture is the take you mix — with a full DAW, plugin host and video compositor inside.
Demo
Watch it run
Recorded straight from the app — no mockups.
The rig
Built for the gig, not just the studio
Most workstations treat video as an afterthought and a live set as a problem. JAMNet Studio starts from the night itself — the songs, the cameras, the lights — and keeps a complete mixing environment underneath.
Capture
- Every mic and every camera in one takeMultitrack audio and multiple video sources recorded side by side, locked to one clock for zero-drift A/V sync.
- Performance RecordOne continuous recording for the whole night. Songs launch on the bar line, and nothing stops between them.
- Bring in what you haveImport WAV, FLAC, MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, Ogg Vorbis and AIFF, plus the audio from MP4 and MKV files.
Perform
- Jams and setlistsLoad a song's backing stems with its click, tempo map and sheet music, then run the set. Stem separation and tempo detection run on your machine.
- Looper stationPad-driven loops on any track, with count-in and a foot controller: the Behringer FCB1010 works out of the box.
- Lights on the timelineDMX lighting lives on tracks next to the music, over Art-Net or a USB-DMX interface.
- Your phone as a remoteArm tracks, set mix levels, read lyrics and sheet music, and check on your video sources from the stage — then mix the post-production from your couch after the show.
Write
- Tabs and sheet music built inWrite guitar and bass tabs or standard notation right on the timeline, in sync with the song, and read them back on stage.
- Vocal synthesisPut lyrics on MIDI notes and hear them sung, with two built-in singing-voice engines — sketch a vocal line before anyone steps up to the mic.
Mix
- AU, CLAP and VST3 in one chainMix plugin formats freely, reorder them, and let delay compensation keep everything in time.
- Racks and macrosGroup plugins into a rack and map any of their parameters to macro knobs, so one move reshapes the whole chain.
- Automation and undo across the sessionLanes for volume, pan, sends and plugin parameters, and one undo history for every edit.
- Capture your own rigTrain a Neural Amp Modeler capture of your amp and record cabinet impulse responses without leaving the app.
Video
- Switch cameras live, edit the cut laterEvery camera cut you make during the show is recorded as timeline data you can move, fix or remove afterward.
- A real compositorPosition, crop, rotate and color-correct each source; add audio-reactive ISF shader effects, titles and subtitles.
- Go liveStream straight from the session to Twitch, YouTube, Kick, Restream and other RTMPS services.
Take it anywhere
- No lock-inExport sessions to REAPER, FCPXML and OpenTimelineIO, alongside mixes, stems and synced H.264 video.
The .jam format
What's a jam?
An open format for organizing the songs you play live or rehearse. Everything a song needs on the night lives together in one .jam folder.
- Tempo map
- Tempo and meter changes, so the click and the loops follow the song
- Roles
- A part for each band member
- Backing stems
- The tracks that play along with you
- Tabs and sheet music
- Parts to read from, in the final jam
- Lighting
- DMX looks programmed ahead of time
Built-in plugins
Ten plugins in the box
JAMNet Studio ships its own processing and metering, built as standard CLAP plugins. Stack them with your own AU, CLAP and VST3 plugins in racks, and drive any parameter from a rack's macro knobs.
- Parametric EQ
- Spectrum
- Loudness
- Tuner
- 3-Band EQ
- Compressor
- True Peak Limiter
- Reverb
- NAM Player
- IR Cabinet
Images above are rendered by the plugins' own drawing code, fed a test signal.
Spec sheet
The numbers
- Platform
- macOS on Apple silicon — private beta. Linux is next.
- Audio engine
- 48 kHz, fixed 32-sample buffer, 32-bit float recording
- Timeline clock
- 705,600,000 ticks per second — divides evenly into every common sample rate and frame rate, so edits land exactly on samples and frames
- Plugin formats
- Audio Units, CLAP, VST3 — mixed freely in one chain, with delay compensation
- Import
- WAV, FLAC, MP3, AAC, ALAC, Ogg Vorbis, AIFF / AIFC, audio from MP4 and MKV
- Export
- Mixes and stems, synced H.264 video, REAPER .rpp, FCPXML, OpenTimelineIO
- Video
- Multiple live cameras, Core Image compositor, audio-reactive ISF shader effects, titles and subtitles
- Streaming
- RTMPS to Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, Kick, Instagram, Vimeo and Restream
- Control
- Phone remote over the local network, MIDI foot controllers
- Writing
- Tabs and standard notation, lyrics with built-in vocal synthesis
- Lighting
- DMX over Art-Net and USB-DMX
On the bench
What's being built next
Not shipped yet — listed so you know where this is going.
Off-site copies before load-out
Takes backed up while the gear is still being packed.
Linux
The same engine on affordable Ubuntu Studio mini-PCs.
Project Rosetta
Move sessions between DAW formats with a list of exactly what carried over and what didn't.
Build log
A year of building
Selected milestones.
Project renamed JAMNet Studio.
One Core Image compositor for preview, recording and export.
CLAP plugin hosting alongside Audio Units.
VST3 hosting — three plugin formats in one chain.
Shared transport and clock across machines on a local network.
First built-in plugins.
Stem separation and tempo detection moved fully on-device. DMX lighting output over USB.
Looper station, played from a foot controller.
First live stream to Twitch, straight from a session.
Amp capture and impulse-response capture.
Video frames stay on the GPU from camera to screen.
Loudness meter, spectrum analyzer, tuner and parametric EQ.
Questions
Straight answers
What does the beta cost?
Nothing. Beta testers use the full app free.
Which audio interfaces work?
Anything macOS sees as a Core Audio device, including class-compliant USB interfaces. Several devices can be combined into one input set.
Does my audio or video get uploaded?
No. Recording, stem separation, tempo detection and amp training all run on your own machine.
What about Windows?
The engine goes where the operating system can keep a fixed 32-sample buffer on any class-compliant interface. On macOS and Linux that's a property of the OS; on Windows today it depends on which interface you bought. When Windows' new in-box audio stack ships and holds that contract, a Windows build is on the table.
Private beta
Get on the list
Invites go out in small batches to people who will put JAMNet Studio in front of real shows: bands, engineers, and anyone filming live music. Tell us what you do and we'll match invites to what's ready.