Run your DAW with your voice.
Jacked Up Digital Engineer.
Never touch the mouse again.
JUDE — Jacked Up Digital Engineer — is an AI recording engineer on the other side of the glass. Talk the way you would to a human: “arm the drums”, “let's do one”, “play that back”. Jude drives your transport, tracks and faders as a virtual control surface, so your hands stay on the instrument.
macOS · Logic Pro · Reaper · Cubase / Nuendo · no card for the trial
Plain speech in.
Real control surface out.
No wake word, no command syntax, no cheat sheet. Jude hears intent, calls the tool, and confirms out loud — then verifies against what the DAW actually reported back.
17
Engineers to work with
7
Languages spoken
0
Mouse clicks between takes
14
Days free, no card
Your DAW thinks a console walked in.
Jude creates its own virtual MIDI ports and speaks Mackie Control Universal — the protocol every major DAW already supports for hardware control surfaces. Nothing to install in your DAW, no scripting, no plug-in.
You talk
Native audio capture on any channel of any interface. Local VAD decides when you are really speaking.
Speech to speech
A real-time Alexa-quality voice model answers in your engineer's voice and emits a tool call. Barge in any time — Jude stops mid-sentence.
Virtual surface
The call becomes Mackie Control MIDI or OSC on Jude's own virtual ports — per-DAW dialect and fader law handled.
Your DAW moves
Transport rolls, tracks arm, faders ride. Logic detects Jude at launch; Reaper and Nuendo were verified live.
And back again. Everything the DAW pushes to that imaginary hardware — scribble-strip names, LED states, timecode, motor-fader positions, meters — is captured in a surface model, and that model is ground truth. Jude never assumes a command worked; it reads the confirmation. Grab the mouse mid-session and Jude stays right with you.
01
Transport, spoken
Record, stop, play, return to start, click and cycle — all by voice, all confirmed by the LED the DAW sends back. The count-in starts while your sticks are still in the air.
02
A take ledger that keeps up
“Trash that”, “let's keep that one”, “play the last one back”. Jude tracks every pass of the session, so you can stay in the performance and sort it out by talking.
03
Faders in real dB
“Give me more on the overheads” moves the right strips by a musical amount, with per-DAW fader taper handled and the resulting dB read back to you. Master fader for the room, strips for the mix.
04
Arm, mute, solo — in groups
“Arm the drums” hits five strips. “Mute everything except the vocal” does exactly that. Group, exclusive and everything-except semantics come standard, across banks.
05
Metering you can hear about
Per-strip meters with proper ballistics on screen, and answers out loud: “are we clipping?”, “how hot is the snare?”. The meter bridge is instrumentation, not decoration.
06
Ask it anything about the session
“What channels are configured?”, “what's armed?”, “where are we?”. Anything the interface shows, Jude can say — the engineer is your eyes on the console.
Built to sit next to your favourite plug-ins
Segment-display timecode, LED transport, knobs and faders with dB readouts, live spectrum on the talkback channel. Everything on screen has a spoken twin — and everything spoken has a control you can reach with a mouse when you'd rather.
Verified against real hosts, byte by byte.
Every DAW speaks its own Mackie or OSC dialect. Jude's drivers were decoded from live captures, not from guesswork — and each one declares exactly what it supports, so nothing in the interface ever pretends.
FULLY SUPPORTED
Logic Pro
Detects Jude automatically at launch through the control-surface handshake, re-pushes full state when the project changes, and stacks overlapping records into Take Folders.
FULLY SUPPORTED
Reaper
Names, transport, mute, solo, click and cycle verified with LED-confirmed round trips. Fader taper calibrated to Reaper's own curve. OSC or MCU interfaces supported out of the box.
FULLY SUPPORTED
Cubase & Nuendo
The Steinberg dialect decoded from a live capture — channel-display sysex, silence at idle, its own goodbye on disconnect. Transport, names, faders and meters wire-verified. Mackey Control Extended live channels coming soon...
On the roadmap
Pro Tools, Ableton, Studio One
The driver layer is built for new hosts: a guaranteed core of transport and state, plus a capability map per DAW. Tell us which one you record in and it moves up the list.
You don't pick a voice. You pick who's on the desk.
Seventeen engineers, each with a real character, a home language and their own way of calling a take. Murphy is laid back. Chief wants one more. Penny will say “that'll do nicely” and mean it as high praise.
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Built so visual impairment doesn't slow your creativity
Accessibility is not a mode in Jude, it is the architecture. Anything the interface shows is queryable by voice; anything clickable has a voice twin; the engineer answers state questions completely and honestly, including when a DAW cannot do something. A feature ships with its voice path or it does not ship.
If you record without sight, we want to hear from you during the beta — that feedback shapes the product more than any other.
Less than one hour of a human engineer.
A session engineer costs $50–$100 an hour. Jude is a subscription with studio hours included; the meter pauses when you step away, and hours beyond your plan are metered honestly.
Trial
Free
14 days, no card. Half a studio hour to try the loop end to end.
Creator
$12/mo
6 studio hours included, then $2.00/hr. For the hobbyist tracking on weekends.
Pro
$29/mo
25 studio hours included, then $1.50/hr. For recording most days of the week.
Get behind the glass.
Fourteen days, no card, the whole feature set. Sign up, pick your engineer, and tell them what you're recording today.
MacOS (Apple silicon) only; Windows - coming soon!