Feed it a recording.

cairn takes what you played and hands it back as a project: kits, samplers, and patterns, in native files for your DAW or groovebox. Your sound, ready to play.

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A recording in. A playable project out.

See cairn turn a performance into kits, samplers, and patterns ready to open on your gear.

cairn showing a recording split into drums, bass, vocals, and other, with moments marked on the timeline

Before

The original recording.

After

The project, ready to play.

System requirements

Mac

macOS 12 or later

Standalone application

Internet connection required for sign-in and periodic subscription checks

Windows

Standalone application

Internet connection required for sign-in and periodic subscription checks

Input

WAV recordings

Exports

  • Projects for the listed DAWs and devices
  • SFZ instruments
  • Standard MIDI patterns
  • WAV sample chains

Launch targets

DAWs

  • Ableton Live
  • Bitwig Studio
  • PreSonus Studio One
  • Steinberg Cubase 14 or later

Hardware

  • Dirtywave M8
  • Elektron Digitakt and Octatrack
  • Teenage Engineering OP-XY, OP-1 field, and EP-133 K.O. II
  • Polyend Tracker
  • Akai MPC
  • 1010music blackbox

Your sound, ready to play.

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