Feature overview · v0.9.0
Design the whole track — down to the last sample, every single time.
A from-scratch studio for techno and electronic music: build the drums, bass, synths, vocals, arrangement and mixdown inside one deterministic engine — starting from a deep factory preset library or a blank patch. Not a loop pack; a real production tool where every render is byte-for-byte identical, forever.
Why it's different
A rave tool built like a precision instrument
The fun of techno on top of engineering most tools don't attempt — the exactness is the feature.
Bit-perfect renders
The same song always renders to the exact same audio, on any machine, on any day. Reproducible mixes, reliable stems, versioning you can actually trust.
Fully self-contained
No external plugins, no cloud dependencies, no licensing traps. Songs carry their own samples. What you make is yours, end to end.
Sovereign by design
The synthesis, the effects, and the in-house Neural Lab are all original IP — no third-party engines running under the hood.
Inside the studio
See it in action
A few looks at RaveFoundry in use — click any shot to view it full size.
What's inside
Core features
Everything below ships in the current build. Each block is a working part of the studio, not a roadmap promise.
Instruments & synthesis
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Drum voices | Deep & click kicks with start-pitch, pitch-curve and click-type shaping, plus snares, claps, hats, toms, ride and crash. |
| Percussion set | Modelled clave, tambourine, conga and cabasa for fuller grooves. |
| Bass & lead | Sub bass, FM bass and mono leads, with hard-sync for aggressive timbres. |
| Keys, chords & pluck | FM keys, a chord engine, and a Karplus-Strong plucked-string voice. |
| Wavetable | 16-frame morphing wavetable bank for evolving leads and pads. |
| Granular | Grain-cloud sample voice with scrubbable playback position. |
| Sampler | One-shot per step with start, fine-tune, reverse, loop and AR envelope. |
| Preset library | 58 curated sound presets spanning the instrument types — instant, playable starting sounds — plus your own saveable user bank. Capture any patch, tweak it, and save it back; factory presets stay protected. |
| Sound Designer | Dedicated workspace to patch any voice with live audition, spectral analysis and a one-click preset strip — audition, tweak and save your own presets as you go. |
Sequencing & modulation
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Step sequencer | Ratchets up to ×8, per-step probability, micro-timing, conditional triggers, per-track swing and note pools. |
| Automation | Per-track automation lanes and parameter locks on any control. |
| Curve-LFOs | Arbitrary, tempo-synced modulation shapes you draw yourself. |
| Macros | Four macros per track, each fanning out to many parameters at once. |
| Grid tools | Draw / erase / velocity tools, copy-cut-paste, rotate / mirror / invert, Euclidean fills, roll & accent builders. |
| Humanize | Timing and velocity variation with reproducible "freeze" so a groove renders identically. |
| Snapshots | Named states you can capture and recall while writing. |
Mixing & mastering
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Sidechain ducking | Per-track, kick-triggered gain envelopes for classic pumping. |
| Send buses | Shared delay and reverb sends fed by per-track send gains. |
| Mixer | All-track levels, pans, mutes and solos with live metering. |
| Master dynamics | Bus compression and limiting on the master stage. |
| MasterLab | Offline spectral and loudness analysis of the finished mix. |
| Export | Full song to WAV or MP3, or per-track stems in one pass. |
Arrangement & energy
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Beat drops & Rave Mode | Build-ups, drops and comeback modes that reshape energy across the song. |
| Auto-arrange | Generate arrangement scaffolding to get moving fast. |
| Style templates | "New from style" starting points across techno flavours. |
| Groove models | Swing and feel stamping for humanised timing. |
Foundation & reliability
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Deterministic engine | Custom zero-dependency DSP core; the same song renders byte-identically every time. |
| 128 tracks / song | Build big — up to 128 independent tracks in a single song, with efficient track masking under the hood. |
| Undo / redo | Full history across steps, params, tracks, clips, drops and automation. |
| Safety nets | Autosave with crash recovery, metronome & count-in, freeze / bounce to audio. |
| Proven stable | Over 1,000 automated tests with the bit-identity guarantee held on every commit. |
Built for vocals
A full vocal studio, built in
Record or import a vocal and get a complete channel strip plus a deep creative and spectral suite — the kind of chain most DAWs need a rack of plugins for. Around 50 automatable parameters end to end, each one deterministic and bit-identical like the rest of the engine, and drivable by automation lanes, macros and curve-LFOs.
Channel strip
High-pass · gate & expander · compressor · de-esser · transient shaper · drive.
Pitch & character
Grain / WSOLA pitch-shift (±octaves + fine tune) · shimmer for octave-up sparkle · doubler · vowel filter · exciter.
Spectral resynthesis
Freeze · smear · formant-shift · robot · whisper — on a custom STFT engine with latency compensation.
Modulation
Chorus · flanger · phaser · frequency-shifter · ring mod.
Creative mangling
Chop · stutter · granular texture · lo-fi crush.
Space & time
Ping-pong delay · gated reverb · stereo width · polarity · clip time-stretch (repitch + WSOLA).
Vocoder
Classic talk-box / robot-voice carrier for a vocoded lead.
Neural voice On the way
Personal voice models under the sovereign Neural Lab — morph and mutate your own voice, baked to audio.
Next up
On the way
In active development — trained, designed, or partly built, but not yet in your hands. Marked separately so nothing above is a promise.
| Feature | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
| More instruments & sequencing | A new additive-drawbar Organ voice, tracker-style pattern text entry, deeper synth modulation (filter modes + velocity routing), and a softer, tunable sidechain — landing now. | In build |
| Audio Lab | One unified design-and-edit workspace, plus a dedicated Audio track type for loops, recordings and bounces. | In build |
| Arrangement suite | Draw an energy curve and let the app build the arrangement, block / scene arrangement, and one-click transition baking. | In design |
| Sound Library | A browsable, searchable, auditionable repository unifying sounds, presets and samples, with "add to song" that keeps songs self-contained. | In design |
| Neural Lab | Sovereign neural sound design — timbre morphing, seeded mutants and latent effects, trained only on the app's own audio and baked to WAV. | Models trained |
| 256 tracks / song | Doubling the ceiling to 256 independent tracks per song, with the same bit-perfect determinism. | Planned |
| Wider format support | OGG Vorbis import and export alongside WAV and MP3. | Planned |