Nathaniel Labs
Audio Studio

You never press record again.

Sangat sits in your menu bar and listens to everything you play, sing or clap. It tells you the honest tempo, names the key and the raga, keeps every idea you stumbled on, charts it, and hands the whole night to REAPER.

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What it does

Always on in your menu bar: the honest tempo, the key and the raga of whatever you play or sing, every idea remembered and charted.

It tells you the truth about your tempo.

Not a number that jumps around. Sangat listens to your beats, throws out the flams and the ornaments, and gives you one honest verdict. Pause and it holds; come back at a new tempo and it opens a new section. It even tells you how you drifted, in words: started 92, pushed to 98.

It knows the raga, not just the key.

Key and mode the western way, plus all 72 melakartas. Play or sing in Kharaharapriya and it says so, while you are playing. Nothing else on your Mac does this.

Play it, sing it or clap it.

Any MIDI keyboard works with nothing to set up. Turn on the microphone and it names the key and raga of what you sing and keeps the recording. Turn on rhythm and it follows claps, konnakol, a guitar or a kit, with nothing transcribed.

Your ideas land in REAPER already in time.

One button. Every riff becomes a named region on its own track at its own true tempo, with your voice recording lined up beside it. It only ever adds, and one undo takes the whole lot back out.

Founder note

Sangat is in early access because a listening tool has to earn your trust in your room, on your instrument, in your music. The engine ships with 124 checks behind it and it is signed and notarised by Apple, but tempo, key and raga detection are judgement calls, and I want them tested by real players before I call it 1.0. Early-access users get every update free and keep the founding price forever.

What's new

  • The Player: double-click any practice MP3 — folder as playlist, tempo from the steadiest stretch of the take, key and scale, loop the steady part, click-along, slow down without pitch change, send to REAPER with tempo + meter marker at the cursor.
  • Chords instant, from the MIDI Piano Visualizer's own 130-pattern vocabulary, pedal included.
  • The full 54-scale catalogue (modes, jazz, harmonic families, pentatonics, blues) plus live raga naming.

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Known issues

  • Time signature detection is experimental and is labelled as such inside the app.
  • Voice and rhythm listening are new. They are proven in the test suite and on this developer machine, and are now being validated against real rooms, real voices and real instruments.
  • There is no automatic updater yet, so early-access builds are downloaded from this page.
  • Mac only, macOS 13 or later.

Follow Sangat

Release notes and early build calls for this product.

FAQ

Do I have to press record?

No, and there is no record button. Sangat listens the whole time it is running, keeps everything, and closes an idea by itself when you stop playing. There is also a Grab the last 30 seconds button for the thing you just played and cannot repeat.

Does anything leave my Mac?

No. Sangat has no networking of any kind. Your playing, your recordings and your session history stay in your own folders and are never uploaded anywhere.

Does it work with a DAW other than REAPER?

Yes. Every riff exports as a MIDI file with the tempo embedded, and as MusicXML, so Logic, Ableton, Cubase and notation software all open it. REAPER additionally gets a one-click live handoff, because that is the DAW this was built alongside.

Will it interfere with my studio?

No. Sangat only listens. It never takes over an audio device, never changes your system input or output, and never touches a running DAW.

What does early access mean for the price?

The price is set at 49 US dollars, one time, and checkout opens shortly. Anyone who comes in during early access keeps that price for good and never pays for an update.

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