What’s the difference between Adam Studio, Adam Play and Adam Drummer?
Adam Play is free, in your browser. It plays the tracks shared from
Adam Studio: tap the players in and out on the beat, with a filter and effects on every
player and a master chain across them. Adam Drummer is $19 once,
for Mac and Windows: the Adam drum kit as an app of its own. Type the kit you want and the
AI producer fills its eight pads from the best one-shots in your own library, and writes
the drum pattern as MIDI, by genre.
Adam Studio is the full version, $49: everything
in Adam Play and in Adam Drummer, played from your own samples, plus the synth engine, the
producer writing melodic parts as MIDI, eight players synced to one master, and sharing
your tracks to Adam Play in one click.
What do I get for the launch price?
The whole app, one payment, no subscription. The launch price is
$49 until Tuesday 13 October, then $88; the full price is $150. Updates within the version you bought are included, and one licence runs on
one computer at a time, Mac or Windows. Move it between your machines
whenever you like, from inside the app or your account page.
Are there AI credits, or a monthly AI fee?
Neither. You paste in your own key from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google
and the prompts go straight to them, never through us, never metered, never marked
up. A build is a handful of small text requests, not a stream of audio. The app also runs
with no key at all: every control, the sequencer, the piano roll and the
mixer work without one, and the producer agent is the part that asks for it.
Does it come with sounds?
No, and that is the whole idea. Adam Studio plays your folders:
point it at the packs you already own and it listens through them, reading
wav, aif, mp3, flac and
ogg. Your crates stop being an archive you scroll and become an instrument.
Can it analyse my Splice folder, or a really big library?
Bring all of it. Point Adam at your Splice downloads, or any
folder of packs however deep, and it walks every subfolder in the background
while you keep playing, reading the tempo, key and instrument those files already carry
in their names. Nothing is uploaded: the analysis never opens your audio to send it
anywhere, and a bigger crate just gives the producer agent a better band to cast from.
How does it pick the right sample?
It reads instrument, tempo, key, mood and loop-or-one-shot from every file in your
library, then casts eight parts from your sentence: a drummer, a bass player, a
harmony and a melody, written in parallel. Every part arrives with a
crate of up to ten ranked alternatives; ‹
› walks them, so you are never stuck with the first pick.
Do my samples get uploaded anywhere?
Never. Only text leaves your computer, what you typed and the file
names, and only to the provider whose key you entered. No audio is ever sent, and
there is no code path in the app that opens a sample file to send it. Details in the
privacy policy.
Will everything be in time and in key?
One master tempo and one master key, and every player conforms to both the moment you
move them. Percussion is deliberately left out of the retuning:
“the track is in F now” was never meant to transpose your kick.
What is the difference between time-stretch and pitch mode?
Time-stretch keeps tempo and key independent: a loop changes speed without changing
note. Pitch mode moves both together, like a turntable. Melodic parts land in stretch
mode and drums land on the turntable, because on a drum the stretch is the thing you would
hear. Either player can be switched by hand.
Is there a piano roll?
A full one, with velocity as the note’s own shade:
⌥-drag sets it, and it reaches the audio as a gain before the voice. The
agent writes the parts; you edit them like any roll, with snap, grid, quantize, marquee
select and undo.
What are the keyboard shortcuts?
Space is transport anywhere. ⇧⇥ opens and shuts the
piano roll. The letter rows are a playable keyboard: A is C and the row
above holds the sharps, with Z and X for the octave, and
⌘1 to ⌘3 for the three banks of eight. Inside the
roll: S snap, G grid, arrows to move or transpose,
⌘D duplicate, ⌘Z undo.
Does it run inside my DAW?
Yes, on a Mac. The VST3 and AU plugins come in the same installer as the
app, for the same $49. Install the .pkg, let your DAW rescan its
plugins, and load Adam Studio as an instrument on a track, in Ableton, Logic or any VST3
or AU host. The whole app runs inside it and follows the DAW’s tempo and
transport: press play in the DAW and Adam plays with it. On Windows the app is
standalone for now; the VST3 follows in a later update.
Will it sync with my hardware?
Both directions. Send MIDI clock out to drive your gear, or follow clock in and Adam
Studio takes its tempo, start, continue and stop from your gear instead. Play in from any
MIDI keyboard, and what you play echoes out to a hardware synth. Mapping a controller’s
knobs to parameters is on the Coming soon list.
Can I record a microphone or a guitar?
Yes. Your interface’s inputs route to whichever players you choose, so a
singer sits on one channel and a guitar on another, each through its own DJ channel. Takes
record bar-synced, with a count-in, as audio or as MIDI.
Is there a free trial?
No. Adam Studio is a one-time $49 purchase, not a trial and not a
subscription. What stands in place of one is that everything on this page was measured and every
screenshot is the real app — read the full workflow and
the manual before you buy, and you will know exactly what you are getting.
Our refund rules are in the terms.
Adam Studio does not guarantee any specific musical, creative, stylistic, or
qualitative outcome. AI-generated results are inherently variable.
How does buying work?
Press Buy Adam Studio. You sign in first, with Google or with a
link we email you, and then pay $49 with PayPal or a card; no PayPal
account is needed for the card. Signing in first is not a hoop: your licence key is issued
in your name, to that address, and a key cannot be reissued to a typo. Your key
and your download then live on your account page for good. Prefer crypto or a bank
transfer? Email us from the checkout and we will send an invoice.
What computer do I need?
A Mac on macOS 11 Big Sur or later, Apple Silicon or Intel, or a 64-bit PC on
Windows 10 or later. One licence covers either, one at a time.
Does this replace my DAW?
No. It is a groovebox: building the track and performing it are the
same act. Bounce to 24-bit WAV and finish wherever you already finish, or, on a Mac,
run it inside that DAW as a VST3 or AU.