Polaris — a digital audio workstation with a producer inside
Polaris is a music production app for Windows, built for electronic music: house, tech house, bass house, breakbeat, dubstep and drum & bass. Native instruments and FX, a piano roll with an AI copilot, and a team of AI specialists that plan, build and argue about your track in the open.
An AI producer that delegates, not a prompt box
Most AI music tools generate a finished file and hand it over. Polaris works the way a studio does. You talk to the Producer; it briefs a Drummer, a Bass Architect, a Sound Designer, a Mixing Engineer, an Arranger and a Genre Stylist — fifteen specialists in all, each with its own reference material and its own tools. They read their knowledge packs before they plan, they place real notes on real tracks, and when two of them disagree — the kick and the sub fighting over the low end, say — the disagreement is shown to you with the rule that settles it. Nothing is hidden behind a spinner.
Models run locally on your own machine, or through your own API keys. Every tool call, every knowledge pack and every verdict is visible in the transcript.
Native instruments and FX
Every instrument and effect is built into Polaris itself — no plugin hunting, and every parameter is addressable by the AI, so a patch can be designed from a sentence and auditioned before it lands on your track. Each device ships with its own reference bible, so the agents know how to play it.
Nova — virtual analogue synthesiser
Two oscillators with warp, FM and wavefolding, plus a sub and a noise source; a filter pair you can run in series or parallel; one envelope you retarget at whatever needs moving; eight macros. The tone portrait draws the sound as you shape it.
Rift — three-oscillator fold synthesiser
The flagship: wavefolding across three oscillators, with a display that answers the fold knob. Built for transformer bass and drops that move air. In development — the hero window is approved.
Drum Machine — sixteen pads, procedural kit
A step sequencer with performance, probability and micro-timing lanes, a drum synthesiser underneath, and layering per pad. The AI Drummer plays it as MIDI: it generates candidates, measures them against the low-end rules, picks the winner and commits a groove the rest of the arrangement shares.
A piano roll that draws first
Left-click adds a note. Groove bakes into the MIDI you commit, and every edit is undoable exactly like an arrangement gesture. The copilot proposes onto the open roll instead of writing over it: a dashed overlay with keep or drop per phrase, and at most two takes — the generation and one rival. Nothing lands until you keep it. Pitch, pressure and pan curves ride on the notes.
Watch the team think
The Constellation shows a session as it happens: every agent an orb in its own colour, every message a light travelling a wire, every disagreement a card on the wire between them, and the orchestrator at the centre. You can pin an agent, inspect what it said, and replay the whole build afterwards.
Questions
What is a DAW?
A digital audio workstation is the software a track is made in: recording, sequencing, synthesis, mixing and arrangement in one place. Polaris is a DAW with an AI production team built into it rather than bolted on.
Which platforms does Polaris run on?
Windows 10 and later. A dedicated GPU is recommended for the visualisers and for local model inference.
Does Polaris need an internet connection or a subscription to the AI?
No. Polaris hosts models on your own machine, and you can point it at your own API keys instead if you prefer a cloud model. There is no separate AI subscription.
Can I still produce by hand?
Yes. Every AI action is a proposal you accept or reject, and the instruments, piano roll, mixer and arrangement work exactly as you would expect without touching the AI at all.
What genres is it built for?
Electronic dance music and its bass-driven family — house, tech house, bass house, breakbeat, dubstep and 140, drum & bass and neuro. The knowledge the agents work from is written for those styles.
When can I use it?
Polaris is in development and the beta is coming. Put your email in the form above and you will hear when it opens.
