After two years of development, Rift Studio is entering its first public beta.
What is Rift Studio?
Rift Studio is a digital audio workstation built around one idea: your DAW should understand your session. Not just record and play back audio — but actually comprehend the structure of your project, anticipate what you need, and remove the repetitive production work that slows you down.
We call this Session Intelligence.
Session Intelligence
When you add a track in Rift Studio, the Session Intelligence engine analyzes what you've added. Is it a kick drum? It auto-labels the track, sets the color, routes it to a drum bus, and configures gain staging. A bass synth? Same treatment — labeled, colored, routed to a bass bus, low-cut filtered on the bus send.
This happens in real time, as you work. You're never interrupted, and you can override any decision the engine makes.
The Production Copilot
The Production Copilot takes Session Intelligence further. It watches your mix in real time and surfaces actionable advice: "Track 7 and Track 12 are masking around 250 Hz." "Your stereo image is heavily weighted left." "The master bus is peaking at -0.3 dBFS."
It's not an automated mastering tool. It's a second set of ears — one that never gets tired and never misses a frequency clash.
The Device Builder
Every instrument and effect in Rift Studio is a modular device. The Device Builder lets you open any device, see how it's wired, and modify it — or build entirely new instruments from scratch.
We believe the community will eventually build more interesting devices than we could ever ship. The ecosystem is the product.
Pricing
Rift Studio ships in three editions: - Intro ($99): 32 tracks, stereo mixdown, all instruments and effects - Producer ($249): 128 tracks, surround up to 7.1, Production Copilot - Studio ($449): Everything, including Dolby Atmos, Natural Language Mixer, and lifetime updates
All editions are perpetual licenses. No subscriptions.
Join the Beta
The beta will include a free 30-day trial with full Studio features. No credit card. No account. Sign up at riftdaw.com/download to be notified at launch.