Describe the beat. Watch it build.
Starling is an AI production assistant that works inside your DAW with the plugins and samples you already own. It writes the parts, mixes as it goes, listens back and fixes what doesn't hit, then hands you a session you can open, edit and finish yourself.
REAPER on Windows first · Ableton Live next
Fried, aggressive rage hooks against a dreamy, nostalgic emo-plugg verse. E minor. Go crazy with the ear candy and ShaperBox.
Done. 34 tracks, all editable. Master at −7 LUFS.
A sped-up build of a real Starling session. The prompt, the tracks and the audio are the real project.
What Lodestar is about
AI should make you more of a producer, not less
Keep the producer in the chair
An AI that hands back a bounced file has made every decision for you. Starling hands back a session: every part on its own track, every choice yours to change.
Your sound is already on your drive
The synths you paid for, the presets you tweaked, the kits you've hoarded for years. Starling builds with those, so the track sounds like your rig, not a stock library. Your files never leave your computer.
Your ears go to taste, not cleanup
Before you hear a draft, Starling renders it and listens for the mistakes: a note that clashes with the chord, low end that turns to mud, a hook that never changes. It fixes those itself, so your listening goes into the calls only you can make.
Notes are the interface
"The leads are too harsh" should be enough. Say what's wrong the way you'd say it to an engineer across the desk and hear it fixed. Change your mind and it's one undo.
Also from Lodestar
Two specialist plugins for guitar
Small tools for two specific jobs. Each one has a free demo.
For a double-tracked guitar when you only have one take.
Generates a second performance instead of a detuned copy, so it opens up wide like a real double and holds together when the mix folds to mono.
For a bass part when you don't have a bass.
Turns your guitar DI into a convincing bass track an octave down, keeping your real pick attack, so the low end locks to the riff. Built for drop tunings.
The catalog
The constellation grows
Starling leads, heading into closed beta. Doppel and Basalt ship now for two guitar jobs. On the bench: Lodestone, a produced-tone amp engine, and Sextant, which gets a loose guitar take back in tune.