Make music
at the speed
of thought.
PianoForge is the AI-native desktop DAW for producers who think in melodies. A premium piano roll, real-time playback, and an embedded AI that generates and transforms notes directly inside your project.
An assistant that actually knows your project.
PianoForge's AI lives inside the score — not in a chat tab. It sees what you've selected, your key, your tempo, your chord progression, and writes notes directly into the piano roll where you can audition, edit, accept or undo.
Targeted by scope, not by chat
Click any track or bar range to set scope. The AI only ever modifies what you've targeted — your other tracks stay untouched.
Preview before you commit
Generated notes appear in teal directly inside the piano roll. Audition them in context, accept what works, undo with one keystroke.
Context awareness, baked in
Key, tempo, time signature, instrument — the AI reads all of it from your project. No prompt-engineering required.
Receipts you can replay
Every generation logs to a session ledger. Step back to any earlier state and rebranch from there — the AI's history is your safety net.
A piano roll built for composition, not data entry.
Velocity-driven hue. Selection that flows. A playhead that breathes. Every visual cue means something — so you spend your attention on the music, not on parsing the UI.
Velocity, by hue
Note brightness and saturation track velocity in real time. Look at a phrase and you see its dynamics before you hear it.
Playhead that breathes
Soft glow and pulse animation make the playback position feel alive — not a static cursor scrubbing across your work.
Tactile selection
Multi-select with subtle gradient halos. Drag to nudge, shift-drag to copy, opt-drag to quantize on release.
Every patch feels like the sound it makes.
Featured cards with live waveform previews, hover-load, and category tags. Find a sound by what it does, not by hunting through nested menus.
Live waveform thumbnails
Each instrument shows its actual harmonic signature. A grand piano looks like a grand piano — long, decaying partials.
Featured curation
Two highlighted cards at the top of each category surface the best starting points. No more scrolling through 200 presets to find the right one.
Hover to audition
Mouse over any patch and a colour-matched Load button slides in. One click commits it to the selected track.
Tag-based search
Search by feel — warm, analog, punchy, ambient. Tags are author-curated, not auto-generated noise.
Built like a desktop app should be.
No browser tab limits. No upload-and-wait. Files live on your disk; the AI runs locally where it can; updates ship signed and verified.
Export to anywhere
Bounce stems, mix stereo, or hand off to your full DAW. PianoForge plays nicely with the tools you already use.
Update-ready, honest beta distribution
Beta builds check public PianoForge release metadata and download from versioned installer URLs. Signed and notarised distribution stays explicit in the release notes for each build.
- Public metadata at pianoforge.ai
- Versioned downloads under /downloads
- Signing status documented per release
- Telemetry off by default
Shipping in the open.
Every release. Every fix. Every new instrument. We publish clear public notes because alpha software earns trust by showing what changed.