Make the moment hit harder.

Impact Studio is a standalone Mac app with an instrument-style interface. It does not load as an AU or VST plugin. Export or drag your finished audio into your DAW.

No. Generation, reconstruction, analysis and editing run locally on your Mac. Impact Studio does not send your recordings, prompts or generated audio to a cloud AI service, and no online AI subscription is required. If you connect a cloud AI app through Agent access, that app sees the text it sends and gets back, such as directions and take names. Your audio stays on your Mac.

Yes, once you have activated the app and, if you use AI generation, downloaded the sound engine. Internet is used for purchase, activation, license checks and license recovery, plus that engine download. Those connections do not upload your audio or prompts.

Yes, from version 1.3. When you set up the app, choose “Only my own samples — no AI” and skip the 9.8 GB engine download. Add your sample folders in Library › My samples and they’re sorted and searchable right where they are. Then press Build and it layers your own sounds into two takes, with every layer lined up on the HIT. If you want AI later, add the engine in Settings › AI generation.

Yes, from version 1.2. Turn on Settings › Agent access, and any MCP app on the same Mac, including one that runs a local AI model offline, can create impacts, export them and place hits to picture from a cue sheet. There is no extra fee or API charge from us; your AI app may have its own costs. Read the guide for your AI app.

Impact Studio’s license permits commercial use in music, films, trailers, games, advertising and client projects, subject to the license, the included engine terms and applicable third-party rights. We charge no royalty per sound or project. This permission does not guarantee exclusive ownership, copyright protection or clearance of every output. Check your publisher’s or client’s AI policy and the permissions for anything you import. Selling or sharing the sounds as sample packs or sound libraries remains prohibited under the license. Read the full terms.

Impact Studio uses Stability AI’s Stable Audio 3 Medium through its optimized Mac implementation. Stability publishes the model’s technical information and pre-training data description. Those documents describe the foundation model; they are not an independent rights-clearance certificate for each generated sound. Read Stability’s model card.

Stability reports licensed AudioSparx recordings and Freesound recordings under CC0, CC BY and CC Sampling+. Its model card describes screening and removal of identified copyrighted material, and links to training-data attributions. These are the provider’s published statements. They do not establish that Impact Studio independently verified every uploader’s authority to license a recording. Read Stability’s training-data description.

A valid Creative Commons license can provide permission for AI training without a separate agreement with each creator, where the license permits the use and its conditions are met. A Creative Commons label alone does not prove that an uploader held the necessary rights. Attribution and other conditions still matter, and CC Sampling+ has additional restrictions. How conditions apply to a particular model or output depends on the rights and use involved; commercial-use permission is not a blanket clearance guarantee. Read Creative Commons’ guidance.

Use reconstructed results commercially only when you own the input recording and have the rights to any material it contains, or have explicit permission covering reconstruction and your intended commercial use. Reconstructing or changing a copyrighted recording does not remove the original rights or make it automatically royalty-free. Buying a copy of a recording is not the same as owning its copyright. Read the full terms.

Yes. Import your own audio, organize your sample folders in My samples, use recordings as layer sources, or explore them in Reconstruction. Use audio you own or have sufficient rights to use for the specific purpose. Impact Studio provides usage guidance but does not automatically verify ownership of imported recordings.

Use recordings you own the necessary rights to, or have permission to use for AI training. A standard license to use a sample in music does not necessarily permit training or reconstruction. Those processes do not remove existing rights, and a result may remain close to the source. Check both the source permissions and the intended use of the result. Read the full terms.

Commercial-use permission is different from exclusive ownership, copyright protection and third-party clearance. Local generation and source records can help explain how a sound was made, but they are not an independently verified chain of rights or a publisher clearance certificate. If your agreement excludes AI-generated audio or requires assurances you cannot substantiate, do not deliver generative output under that agreement. Read the full terms.

The provenance update includes signed Content Credentials for WAV, FLAC and MP3, a signed annotation for AIFF, export records and free local verification. This metadata marking leaves the audio samples unchanged. Included from version 1.1.1. Earlier exports are not retroactively marked. See the rights page for how verification works. Read about export provenance.

Each generation starts with a new interpretation. Compare two takes, change the direction, choose a variation range and lock the layers you want to keep. Results vary and may need editing.

Each sound has its own session rate: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96 or 192 kHz. New sounds start at 48 kHz, and export starts at the session rate and converts cleanly to other rates. Your own recordings stay untouched when the session runs at their rate, so a high-resolution recording keeps its top end when pitched down. Generated layers are made at 44.1 kHz and converted once; a higher rate does not add detail to them.

Your license code appears right after checkout and in your purchase email. Enter it in the Mac app to activate. Each license is for one named owner on up to two Macs, and the app shows the owner’s first and last name. License codes may not be shared, transferred or resold. Read the full terms.