A music studio that runs in your web browser. The Maker writes a song from a short text order, and the Studio lets you edit every note, instrument and effect of it.

Do I need to install anything or create an account?

No install. You can try the Maker and Studio without an account; a free account adds cloud save, sharing and loop WAV downloads.

Make music your way. Shape every detail.

Q: Is the AI-made music editable?

Yes. The Maker returns tracks, clips and devices, not a finished audio file, so every note can be changed in the Studio.

Q: Can I release music made with Headphonaut?

Yes, including commercially, if you have rights to any material you import. Built-in sounds are licensed for use in finished tracks. AI-generated patterns may not qualify for exclusive copyright. See the Terms of Service and AI use page.

Create your own instruments, shape your sounds, and make tracks you can edit down to every note. Start from scratch or describe an idea in Maker, then take it wherever you want in Studio.

Start in Maker Open Studio Mac preview Create your own instrument or effect

The Glass Harbour demo arranged in Headphonaut Studio, with editable drum, bass, keyboard and melody clips on separate tracks — Glass Harbour in Studio. Each block is an editable clip, not a flattened recording.

An instrument open as a graph in Headphonaut: oscillator, filter and envelope modules wired with audio and modulation cables, each with its own knobs — **Every instrument is open.** Modules on a graph you can rewire.

The Headphonaut mixer playing the Glass Harbour demo: eight channel strips with faders, pan, reverb and sidechain, level meters, a master strip with loudness and phase, and a spectrum below — **A real mixer.** Faders, sidechain, loudness and a live spectrum.

The Ribbon Brass instrument on its own panel in Headphonaut: two oscillator layers with high-pass and low-pass filter faders, an envelope, an ensemble section, expression controls and LFO tempo — **Classic machines, their own panels.** Ribbon Brass: two layers through paired filters into the ensemble.

The Squelch Bass panel: a waveform switch and knobs for cutoff, resonance, filter decay, drive, glide and amp decay — **Squelch Bass.** Sweep the cutoff, crank the resonance.

The Touchplate Chords panel: twelve root keys with major, minor and seventh buttons, a strum plate, and knobs for brightness, body, decay, shimmer and echo — **Touchplate Chords.** Pick a chord, strum the plate.

Start here

Maker

Make a loop for your video or song. Say what you want to hear and Maker writes it as tracks and clips, played on emulations of classic machines.

Go to Maker Why editable output

Go deeper

Studio

A full session and arrangement view with a piano roll, devices and mixing. Open anything Maker made and keep going.

Go to Studio

Build anything

Create tracks, instruments, effects and sounds

Almost everything in Headphonaut can be created and changed, either by hand or by asking the AI: tracks and clips, instruments built as graphs, effects, sounds and the mix. Nothing is locked.

See what you can build

You ask, we build

Tell us what is missing

Headphonaut ships new versions several times a week, so a request for a device, a sound, a feature or a change can be live within days. Use Request a feature in Maker or Studio, or write to [email protected].

See what we shipped

Desktop preview

Headphonaut for Mac

Keep Studio in its own window and save projects to disk. Preview 0.1.0 is for Intel Macs. Apple Silicon has not been tested. Internet access is needed for cloud sounds and AI; MIDI keyboards and VST plugins are not supported in this preview.

Unsigned preview: this app is not signed or notarized by Apple, so macOS may block the first launch. You can also keep using Studio in your browser.

Download for Intel Mac (ZIP)

Unzip the download, move Headphonaut to Applications, then open it. If macOS blocks it, follow Apple’s instructions for opening an app from an unidentified developer only if you trust this download.

This is an alpha

Headphonaut is still changing. Sounds and projects may change after updates, and some features may break. Export anything you want to keep. See the Terms.

Something wrong? Use Report in Maker or Studio, or write to [email protected].

Questions

Is the AI-made music editable? Yes. You get tracks, clips and instruments, not a finished audio file.

Do I need an account? No. Maker, Studio and Sound Lab work without one. A free account adds cloud save, sharing and loop WAV downloads.

Can I release the music? Yes, including commercially, if you have rights to anything you import. Built-in sounds are licensed for use in finished tracks; AI-generated patterns may not have exclusive copyright. See the Terms and AI use.