Crafting Delightful Digital Experiences
Arbit Free runs without a host DAW and gives you a complete traditional workstation: a clip-based arranger with audio and MIDI clips, the freeform harmonic piano roll, MIDI recording, automation, third-party instrument hosting, and Airwindows plus Arbit's own Donut Devices. Pro adds per-note sampling, vocals, and the video media machine.
Arbit gives you a real clip arranger without giving up its free-flowing composition philosophy. Clips are emergent: you never make an empty clip first — a clip comes into existence the moment a scissor cut creates a boundary. Tracks are unified, so an audio clip and a MIDI clip live on the same lane, and the whole arrangement shares one ruler with the piano roll.
Cut, move, loop, and rearrange audio clips and MIDI clips on unified tracks — the clip-based arrangement workflow producers already know. Convert an audio clip into a MIDI clip with per-note samples in place, tunable by harmonic links.
No empty-clip ceremony. Write freely, then cut where you want boundaries. Dissolve clips back into freeform MIDI to keep composing, then slice it a new way.
Tab between the arranger and the piano roll. They share the ruler, playhead, and horizontal zoom, so you stay at the same spot in the song — same time, different altitude. Pop either out onto a second monitor.
Prefer arranging right on the piano roll? Loop squares are still there — draw a loop around material and extend it across bars, with links continuing across the repeats.
CC and plugin automation is clip-owned data: cut carries it into the clip, loop repeats the curve, dissolve burns it back into the timeline. Export the mix, stems, MIDI, or .dawproject when it's time to finish.
Per-note sampling is part of Arbit Pro. Attach any audio file to any note on the piano roll. Vocals, guitar takes, field recordings — recorded audio becomes a first-class citizen in the harmonic graph, pitch-shifting by pure ratios alongside synthesized instruments.
Drag a WAV onto a note. The sample plays at the note's pitch, follows its envelope, and respects its place in the harmonic graph — varispeed pitch modulation locked to pure ratios in real time.
Retune recorded audio to pure ratios automatically. Sing a sloppy melody, snap each note to its target ratio — the audio follows.
Create a 3:2 link on a sample-backed note and the audio pitch-shifts to match in real time. Same system as synth notes.
Render all transformations to a clean WAV file when you're done. Shared sample pool with caching — the same file referenced by ten notes costs no extra memory.
Export anywhere
Render the full mix to WAV, MP3 (lame), or Opus (libopusenc). Or export standard MIDI with per-note pitch bend so JI tuning survives in any DAW. The native .arbit project format preserves the entire harmonic graph for round-trip editing.
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Free includes the clip arranger, audio and MIDI clip editing, instruments, effects, VST3 hosting, and export — a complete traditional DAW. Pro adds sampling, vocals, and the video media machine.
