A DAW with hidden depth

Skene opens to a familiar DAW — tracks, clips, a piano roll, and a mixer — with every instrument and effect living in a per-track rack. Anything you can see, you can automate and modulate: every knob, fader, and parameter is a live, performable control.

What you see is a DAW. Open up any device and the same project becomes a node graph, where every parameter is a port you can patch modulation, audio, and control into — the hidden depth behind the timeline.

See it in action

Clip Launcher

DAW Tracks

Piano Roll

Built for the stage and the studio

A complete DAW on the surface, with an experimental node layer running underneath — every tool working together in real-time.

Basic

The DAW essentials

Everything you expect from a modern DAW.

MIDI Tracks & Piano Roll

Full MIDI track workflow with a clip-based arranger and piano roll editor. MPE support adds per-note pitch bend, pressure, and Y-axis slide — draw curves directly in the piano roll to shape expression over time.

MPE

Audio Tracks

Multi-track audio recording and playback with a clip-based arranger. Process tracks with the full built-in and AUv3 effects library, and set clips to loop or play through once.

AUv3 Plugin Hosting

Load any AUv3 instrument or effect plugin directly into a track. Third-party synths, samplers, and processors sit right alongside Skene’s built-in devices.

AUv3

Built-in Instruments

Analog Synthesizer — 3 oscillator polyphonic synth with MPE support, vocoder, and unison. Analog Drum Synthesizer — classic 70s analog drum machine with per-pad synthesis. Drum Sampler.

Built-in Effects

Freeverb reverb, stereo delay, saturator, compressor, Warm waveshaper, Juno-style chorus, phaser, Neural Amp Modeler for guitar & bass, and a full filter library: ladder, resonant, formant, and Butterworth high/low pass.

MIDI Effects

Per-clip MIDI effect chain with arpeggiator, groove, quantize, and velocity randomizer. Effects animate live in the piano roll as you play, so you can see the pattern as it unfolds.

Tuner & Recorder

Real-time pitch tuner showing detected note and cents deviation. Quick audio recorder for capturing ideas instantly, without stopping your session or leaving the current view.

Cross-Device & iCloud Sync

One project, every device. Native on Mac, iPad, and iPhone, with iCloud sync so you can start a session on one device and pick it up on another exactly where you left off.

Experimental

Beyond the timeline

The node layer that sets Skene apart.

Node Graph at the Core

Patch instruments, effects, and modulation as connected nodes. Every parameter is a typed port you can route anything into — LFOs, envelopes, audio levels — including feedback loops a linear rack can’t express.

Node Graph

Live Performance & Scenes

Launch clips and whole scenes on the beat from the Arranger and remix a set as you play. Loop sections live, toggle effects, and add mutators on the fly — all mappable to your hardware controllers via MIDI Learn for hands-on performance.

Live

iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Projects sync via iCloud. Start a session on your phone, continue on Mac.

Hardware

MIDI controller supportWork in Progress

Map hardware to clips, transport, and parameters — with RGB pad feedback, encoder control, and screen or LED feedback on supported devices. Controller support is actively in development and growing.

Currently supported devices: