Terms of use

1. Use of our Service

You may use the Service only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You may not:

• violate any applicable law or another person’s rights;
• interfere with, disrupt, probe, or circumvent the security of the Service;
• share access credentials or attempt to access another person’s account;
• scrape, copy, redistribute, resell, or publicly make available Service content except where a feature or license expressly permits it;
• upload malware or content that is unlawful, abusive, deceptive, infringing, or harmful; or
• use the Service in a way that could damage two bit machine, its users, or its service providers.

2. Accounts and eligibility

You must provide an email address you control and keep your account information current. Magic links and native application authorization are personal to you. You are responsible for activity under your account and for keeping your email account and devices secure.

You must be at least 13 to use the Service. If you are not old enough to enter a binding agreement where you live, a parent or legal guardian must agree to these Terms and manage any purchase for you.

3. Subscriptions, billing, and cancellation

Paid plans renew automatically at the price and billing interval shown when you subscribe until canceled. Stripe processes payments and may collect applicable taxes. You authorize Stripe to charge your selected payment method for recurring fees.

You can manage or cancel your subscription through Stripe’s Customer Portal from your Account billing page. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid billing period unless stated otherwise. Except where required by law or expressly stated at purchase, payments are non-refundable and we do not provide credits for partial billing periods.

Access to paid downloads and cairn features may end when your subscription is no longer active, subject to any documented offline access period. Plan names, prices, and features may change for future billing periods; we will provide notice of material changes where required.

4. cairn and sound-library licenses

4.1 License to use cairn

While your applicable plan is active, two bit machine grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use cairn according to that plan. You may not copy, rent, resell, sublicense, reverse engineer, bypass access controls, or distribute the application except where applicable law does not permit that restriction.

4.2 Your recordings and projects

As between you and two bit machine, you retain your rights in recordings you provide to cairn. We do not claim ownership of those recordings or the kits, samplers, patterns, and project files cairn produces from them. You are responsible for ensuring you have the rights needed to use your inputs and outputs. Third-party material included in them remains subject to its existing rights and licenses.

4.3 Sounds and included content

Sounds, samples, presets, templates, and other content supplied by two bit machine are licensed, not sold. Unless a specific item or plan states otherwise, you may use that content as part of your own musical works and productions, but may not redistribute, resell, or make it available as standalone content or as part of a competing sound, sample, preset, or project library.

Personal, Pro, Developer, API, and other plans may carry different permissions, especially for selling sample libraries or delivering files to customers. The plan and license displayed when you purchase or receive content controls if it differs from this section.

5. Content you share through Sounds

5.1 You keep ownership

You retain ownership of audio, artwork, text, project files, and other material you submit or publish through Sounds (“User Content”). Uploading User Content does not transfer ownership to two bit machine.

5.2 License needed to operate Sounds

By submitting User Content, you grant two bit machine a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, encode, display, preview, and distribute it through the Service, together with the technical copies needed to provide those features. This license lasts while the content remains available through the Service and for a reasonable period afterward needed to remove it from active systems and backups.

If you choose a license or sharing option for User Content, you also authorize other users to access and use it according to the license displayed with that content. We will not treat making content available through Sounds as permission for uses beyond the displayed license.

5.3 Your responsibility

You represent and warrant that you own your User Content or have all permissions needed to submit it and grant the licenses above. This includes rights in any recordings, performances, compositions, samples, artwork, names, and likenesses included in it. User Content must not infringe another person’s intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights.

5.4 Removal

You are responsible for your User Content. We do not pre-clear its rights and may remove or disable access to it at any time, including in response to a rights complaint, a violation of these Terms, or a legal obligation.

6. two bit machine intellectual property

The Service, including its software, site design, text, graphics, branding, and content supplied by two bit machine, is owned by or licensed to two bit machine and is protected by intellectual-property laws. These Terms grant only the limited rights expressly described above. User Content remains governed by Section 5.

7. Copyright and rights complaints

We respect intellectual-property rights. If you believe material on the Service infringes your rights, contact us with:

• your name and contact information;
• identification of the work or right you believe has been infringed;
• a URL or enough detail for us to locate the material;
• a statement that you have a good-faith belief the disputed use is not authorized;
• a statement that your notice is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorized to act for them; and
• your physical or electronic signature.

We may remove or disable material while reviewing a complaint and may terminate accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

8. Third-party services

The Service may link to or interact with third-party services such as Stripe, Cloudflare, supported DAWs, and hardware or software vendors. Their products and services are governed by their own terms and policies. References to supported products do not imply ownership, affiliation, or endorsement, and we are not responsible for third-party services.

9. Suspension and termination

You may stop using the Service at any time and may cancel a paid subscription as described above. We may suspend or terminate access if you violate these Terms, create risk or legal exposure, fail to pay applicable fees, or misuse the Service. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will remain in effect.

10. Disclaimer of warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service and its content are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, compatible with every third-party product, or that every generated file will meet your requirements.

11. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, two bit machine and its affiliates, officers, employees, agents, licensors, and suppliers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business opportunities arising from the Service.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability for claims arising from or relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of one hundred U.S. dollars or the amount you paid us during the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

12. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless two bit machine and its affiliates, officers, employees, agents, licensors, and suppliers from claims, damages, losses, liabilities, judgments, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising from your misuse of the Service, your User Content, or your violation of these Terms or another person’s rights.

13. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any legal action arising from these Terms or the Service will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California, except where applicable consumer law provides otherwise.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will post the revised Terms and update the date above. If a change is material, we may provide additional notice where appropriate. Your continued use of the Service after revised Terms take effect means you accept them.

15. Contact us

Questions about these Terms, copyright, or rights matters may be sent through our help page .