Not the forty-first DAW.
The band's rig.

Digital audio workstations are a crowded market, and most of them are good. What none of them do well is treat capturing the performance as the unit of work: every mic and every camera captured together, on one clock, with the setlist, the charts and the lighting cues riding along, so that what you take home is a finished multitrack session and not a folder of files that almost line up.

That's the job JAMNet Studio is built for. The DAW and the video editor underneath are full-featured so that you never have to leave the workstation (unless you want to).

Only the studio needs studio hardware. Everyone else in the band joins from a phone, a browser, or the DAW they already use. The pricing page explains who pays for what.

The engine runs a fixed 32-sample block and is written to that ceiling: nothing on the audio thread allocates, locks or waits. That single constraint shapes the rest of the design: how plugins are hosted, how video frames move, how the timeline keeps time, how two machines agree on a downbeat.

Everything shares one clock. Audio, video, MIDI, lighting and the timeline itself run on a timebase that divides evenly into every common sample rate and frame rate, so an edit lands on the same sample and the same frame wherever it's viewed.

It's written in Rust, with the platform pieces (Core Audio, Metal, AVFoundation) behind a small native layer. Analysis features (stem separation, tempo detection, transcription, amp modeling) run in-process on your machine. Zero cloud-dependent processing.

Platforms

Built for Apple silicon since the first day: unified memory shared event optimization is what lets your CPU and GPU operate smoothly inside the callback budget. Linux is next, on Ubuntu Studio, targeting the same architecture in affordable mini-PC form, machines a budgeting band can reach for.

Windows isn't off the table, but it's gated. The engine's promise is a fixed 32-sample callback on any class-compliant interface. On macOS and Linux that's a property of the operating system; on Windows today it's a property of which interface you bought. Microsoft has announced an in-box low-latency USB audio stack; when it ships and holds that contract, a Windows build is on the table. In the meantime, Windows users join sessions through the phone app, the browser and the DAW extensions on the roadmap.

• No dongles, no activation servers, no phoning home. The app works on your machine whether or not ours is reachable. Licensing is an honor system, the way REAPER does it.
• Your work is never stuck here. Open formats throughout. Sessions export to REAPER, Final Cut Pro and OpenTimelineIO today, and Project Rosetta will make the converter open source.
• The app only interrupts you about your work, never about our money. Disk nearly full is a real warning. A subscription reminder is a dismissible splash you'll see once.
• Nothing you record is uploaded unless you turn cloud storage on. And when you do, deleting anything is your decision, on a published schedule, never a side effect.
• No ads. No crippleware. The beta is the full app, and so is the evaluation after it.

A JAMNet Studio session is the complete record of a project. Every other format gets a faithful translation of what it can hold: a setlist of jams becomes a scene per song with the parts grouped in Ableton Live, or regions and markers in REAPER, and every export lists what carried over and what didn't. Round trips don't lose anything: where a format can carry data it doesn't understand, the full session rides along inside it.

After the beta, the converter is extracted and open-sourced, so the people whose projects break it can fix it, and so the promise above is something you can read, not something you have to take on trust. Status on the roadmap.