The business of making music

Make the music. Anocturne runs the rest.

Releases, sessions, deadlines, money, files and the people you work with — one workspace instead of nine apps.

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Who it's for

Three people. Often the same person.

The artist or songwriter

Writing, recording, releasing and promoting it yourself. Anocturne holds the release plan, the deadlines, the split sheets and the money, so the admin stops eating the part you actually came for.

The producer

Beats, sessions, placements and clients. Track what you sent to who, what came back, what got cut and what still owes you an invoice — without digging through a year of DMs to find out.

The mix & master engineer

Stems in, revisions out, recalls, references and delivery dates. Every job is a project with its own files, notes, revision count and invoice, kept per client instead of per inbox thread.

Built for the work between songs

Splits, submissions, invoices, session notes, campaign calendars. The unglamorous half of a music career — whoever you are in the room — finally given somewhere to live.

One place, not nine

Stop stitching a spreadsheet to a notes app to a calendar to a DM thread and hoping nothing falls out of the gaps.

Yours alone

Every project, contact and file is scoped to your account. Nothing is visible to anyone else until you decide to share it.

What you get

Everything a release needs, and nothing it does not.

Projects, releases & jobs

A single, an album, a tour, a beat pack, a mix or a mastering job — all of it runs as a project with stages, tasks and a real timeline. Save one as a template so the next one starts half built.

The job builds itself

Paste the email a job arrived in and the project is drafted from it — tasks, stages, the client, and the dates that were really in the message, all shown for approval before a thing is saved. Accept a booking against your rate card and the whole project appears, priced, with its delivery date on it. Put a release date on it and the rollout builds around that. Nobody should start work they already sold by making a checklist.

A planner that knows the date

Day, week and month views across everything that has a date on it — release days, session bookings and delivery deadlines — so the one you forgot stops being a surprise.

Quotes, invoices & rate cards

Per-song, per-hour or per-project rates. Send a quote, turn it into an invoice, and track expenses against the same job so you know what it actually paid. Your invoice carries your own payment details, so you get paid the way you already do.

Content & campaigns

Plan posts around a release date, generate a rollout from the release itself, and see the whole month on one board.

Splits that actually get signed

A split sheet that cannot be locked until the percentages total 100, then emailed round for signature — each writer signs from a link, no account, no printer, no DocuSign seat. Once it is signed you can pull a registration report for your PRO with the writer names, IPIs, roles and shares already laid out. Producer and engineer credits sit on the same sheet, and it outlives the project it came from.

Stems, versions & archive

Masters, stems, references, artwork and contracts in one library, versioned so revision 4 is not called final_FINAL. Archive a project when it is finished without deleting a single file of it.

Cancel your file transfer service

Masters and stem folders go out from inside the job they belong to — no second subscription, no uploading somewhere else to paste a link back. Every recipient gets their own link that expires after seven days, and you can see who actually downloaded it. The delivery stays on the record after the project is archived, so “did you ever send them the instrumental” has an answer instead of an argument.

Contacts & clients

Import the address book you already have, tag people the way you think about them — artist, label, A&R, repeat client — and keep every file, message and invoice attached to the right name.

Catch it, then focus

Capture an idea in two taps from anywhere in the tool — type it, or hit record and say it, which is how most people actually catch one. Sort them into ideas, to-dos and actions when you come back, or pin them to a board and move them around until the record makes sense. Then set a project to run one task at a time: finish it and the next appears, and nothing else asks for your attention.

And the songwriting desk, thrown in

Keys and scales, a chord finder, the circle of fifths, guitar scales and CAGED shapes, a piano, a progression studio and somewhere to keep lyric drafts with the song they belong to. None of it is why you would buy this. All of it is there at two in the morning when you need it and would otherwise be opening a browser tab.

Gear, links & portfolio

Your rig and your room, where you send people, and a public page — credits, media, rates and a QR code for it — that looks like you meant it rather than like a link list.

Client portal

Give the people you work with their own door

Producers, engineers, studios and managers get a second, separate space to hand to their clients — book the session, approve the mix, read the invoice. It carries your name, not ours.

Part of Studio, alongside the artist workspace.

  • Booking against your real availability — connect Google Calendar and your busy hours are blocked out automatically
  • A plan they can act on and tick off, not a document they read once
  • Revision rounds and file shares kept with the job they belong to
  • Bring an assistant into a project — set what they can do, and whether they see the whole board or only their own tasks
  • Invoices they can open and track, instead of a PDF lost in a thread
  • Private messages and space to reflect between sessions
How it works

Three moves, then it runs itself.

  1. 01

    Bring what you already have

    Import contacts from Google, Outlook, Mailchimp or Apple. Start a project from a template — release, beat pack, mix job — or from nothing at all.

  2. 02

    Work the week

    Tasks, deadlines, posts and sessions all land in the same planner. When it gets loud, focus mode narrows it to the next thing.

  3. 03

    Get paid, then ship

    Quote it, invoice it, mark it paid. File the split sheet, send the master, close the job — and start the next one from what you learned.

Pricing

Three plans. Pro is free for 14 days.

Nothing is switched off on any of them. The plans differ by how much of the business you are running — not by how much of the tool you are allowed to touch.

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Questions

The things people ask first.

Who is this actually for?

Three people. The artist or songwriter running their own releases. The producer juggling beats, sessions, placements and clients. The mix or master engineer running revisions, recalls and delivery dates for other people's records. Studios and managers use it too — the client portal was built for anyone whose clients need a door of their own. If your work currently lives across a notes app and four group chats, it was built for you.

I am an engineer, not an artist. Is half of this useless to me?

No. Every job is a project — stems in, revisions tracked, references attached, delivery date on the planner, invoice on the same record, and the finished files sent out from the job itself. Split sheets get signed by email and turn into a registration report. The release and campaign tools are there when you want them and out of the way when you don’t; nothing forces you to run a rollout to run a mix.

Do I need the client portal?

No. The workspace stands on its own. The portal is for people who have clients of their own — an engineer taking revisions, a studio taking bookings, a producer running sessions — and would rather hand them a space than a shared folder.

Can I bring my existing contacts?

Yes — a CSV from Google, Outlook or Mailchimp, or a vCard from Apple Contacts. Anyone already in your list is skipped rather than duplicated.

Is my work private?

Every record is scoped to your account. The only things another person can reach are links you issued yourself. Client shares and project invites can be revoked outright, and file transfers expire on their own after seven days.

What happens to my files?

They live in your library, versioned, and go out as transfer links that expire after seven days rather than as permanent public URLs — from inside the job, so you are not paying a separate transfer service to do it. You can see who downloaded. When a project is finished you archive it, which puts it out of the way without deleting anything in it.

Does this mean more admin, not less?

No, and that is the whole test. Paste the message a job arrived in and the project is drafted from it — tasks, stages, dates — for you to approve and then edit like anything else. Accept a booking against your rate card and the project is already there when you go looking for it. Set a release date and the posts appear around it. It does not decide your splits, price your work, or tell you what to release, and there is no dashboard to keep fed.

Is there AI in it?

In two places, both of which you have to go to on purpose: paste a message and it drafts the project from it, or ask the assistant to make a project, a task or an expense from one sentence. Both show you what they propose before anything is saved, and both are metered by plan. Everything else that happens on its own — rollouts from a release date, invoices, reminders — is ordinary automation, which is why it is instant and does the same thing every time.

Is it finished?

It's early access. A few things are deliberately held back from the first release, and what gets built next is driven by what the people using it keep asking for.

Your work deserves better than a text or an email.

Move one job into it — a release, a session, a mix. Paste the email it arrived in and watch the project build itself. That is usually enough to tell.

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