How MELD works

Play with somebody live, keep the take, master it to a proper streaming loudness, and put it in front of people. Four steps, in that order, all of it in the browser — and the whole first pass costs nothing and needs no account.

STEP ONE

Record it

MELD Studio records straight from your microphone — press Record, play, press it again. You watch the waveform build as it goes, and what you get out is the samples that came off the mic, not a compressed copy. Nothing is installed and nothing is uploaded.

Then build it up: lay takes onto a timeline, drag a clip to where it belongs, trim either end of it, and mix with a parametric EQ you drag by its curve. Turn a dial while it plays and you hear it change. Ctrl‑Z goes back sixty steps.

In a hurry to hear it? Press Load the demo song and four tracks appear, built in your browser, before you record anything at all.

Open MELD Studio →

STEP TWO

Master it

MELD Master measures your track, then renders it to the loudness you choose — Streaming for music, Podcast for speech. That is the difference between a mix that sounds thin next to everything else and one that sits where it should.

You hear both versions back to back at matched loudness, so you are judging the work rather than the volume. Nothing here is uploaded: the measuring, the mastering and the download all happen on your own machine.

Already have the track? Skip straight here with any WAV, FLAC, MP3 or AIFF.

Open MELD Master →

STEP THREE

Play with somebody

MELD Jam puts you in a room with another musician, live, in the browser. Pick what you play and what you are looking for, or send a private invite to a friend and jam with them instead. Audio is prioritised over video the whole way, and the real latency is shown rather than hidden.

It records while you play. Your own microphone only — never the other person's — so three minutes that turned into something is not lost when the clock runs out. When the session ends you choose: download it, send it to MELD Studio, or send it straight to MELD Master.

It is a beta, and it needs somebody on the other end — so it is at its best arranged with a friend rather than walked into cold. No account, no key.

Open MELD Jam →

STEP FOUR

Post it

Download the mastered WAV and it is yours, with nothing owed. Or post it to MELD Social, where other musicians find you, add you, message you, and can like, comment on and repost what you made — and where the next jam usually starts.

Posting is the one step that needs a free account, and the one place a recording leaves your machine: it is uploaded so that other people can press play. You decide who can, on every post — everyone, friends only, or nobody but you — and you can change it afterwards.

An account is an email and a password. No card is asked for at any point.

See MELD Social →

Would rather be shown than read? The walkthrough points at each control as you go, from the jam through to a finished master and a post.

Walk me through it

The things people ask first

Does my audio get uploaded?
Only when you post one. Jamming, recording and mastering all run on your own machine and never send audio anywhere — a jam goes straight between the two browsers. Posting a track to MELD Social uploads that recording, because otherwise nobody else could play it, and you choose who can.
What does it cost?
Nothing today. You get a free run of everything without an account; a free account raises every limit and opens everything social. Paid plans exist on the plans page but are not on sale — nothing they add over the free tier is finished yet.
Do I need an account?
Not to jam, record or master — those three are open to anybody. You need one to post a track, to message somebody, and to see the feed.
Do I need a microphone?
For jamming and for recording, yes. Mastering works with a file you already have.
Does the other person's playing get recorded?
No. A jam captures your own microphone and nothing else, and we never receive any of it. Recording somebody else would need them to agree to it first, and that does not exist yet.
Where do my recordings live?
In this browser, which is how a take can move from a jam to the studio to the mastering tool without ever being uploaded. With an account the name and length are kept against you so the list follows you. A track you post is the exception, and the copy on your machine stays exactly as you made it.