Overview

You opened your DAW to create music—not to burn half your brain on shortcuts, modifier keys, and complex control interfaces. Let tools serve your creativity, not your memory.

Strata Studio lets your AI agent control your DAW so you can focus purely on making music. Instead of spending 30 minutes manually levelling tracks for streaming, removing background noise from recordings, or routing effect plugins across every track, just tell your AI agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Hermes, or Gemini) what you want in plain English. Your session gets prepped, balanced, and ready for production in seconds.

Quick Start & Agentic Setup

No terminal commands or manual compilation required. Open your AI agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Hermes, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, and 50+ more) and tell it to handle the setup:

1. Clone the Repository

Clone the project repository to your local system:

git clone https://github.com/Goldwaterfung/Strata-Studio.git
cd Strata-Studio

Or tell your AI agent:

Clone https://github.com/Goldwaterfung/Strata-Studio and set up the project for me

2. Build & Setup Strata Studio (Agent compiles the app)

Tell your agent:

Build and package Strata Studio for me

(Your agent will automatically run ./scripts/install_dependencies.sh and ./scripts/build.sh release --package under the hood).

3. Install the Skill (Teaches your agent how to control DAW)

Tell your agent:

Install the daw-cli skill from https://github.com/Goldwaterfung/Strata-Studio

Showcase Use Cases

Below are real-time demonstrations of daw-cli executing agentic workflows in Strata Studio.

🎬 Use Case 1: Instant Multi-Track Ingestion, Clip Placement & Auto-Coloring

Natural Language Prompt:
"Import all the audio files in /Volumes/AudioDrives/Stems/Song_Session_A/. Place all clips at the start of the timeline. Clean up all the dirty file extensions and underscores in the track names, and auto-color the tracks based on their instrument types so my session is clean and organized."

• Key Commands: daw-cli track create, daw-cli clip add-audio, daw-cli track sanitize-names, daw-cli track auto-color

🎬 Use Case 2: Multi-Track Session Orchestration & Fader Layout

Natural Language Prompt:
"Set up a 124 BPM session with an 8-piece drum kit: Kick, Snare Top, Snare Bottom, Hi-Hat, Tom 1, Tom 2, and stereo Overheads. Color them automatically, set all faders to -6 dB for headroom, and pan the overheads 100% left and right."

• Key Commands: daw-cli transport set-tempo, daw-cli track create-batch, daw-cli track auto-color, daw-cli track set-gain, daw-cli track set-pan

Agentic Command Examples

Here is what working in Strata Studio with an AI assistant looks like:

User    ❯ Set tempo to 128 BPM, set up tracks for Kick, Snare, HH, and Tom, and balance their volume levels.

Agent   ❯ [Strata Agentic Engine]
          ✓ Set session tempo to 128.0 BPM (4/4 time signature)
          ✓ Created 4 audio tracks: Kick, Snare, HH, Tom
          ✓ Balanced volume levels across tracks 1..4 to prevent clipping
          Done. Ready for your arrangement pass.

User    ❯ Add a FabFilter Pro-Q 3 equalizer to the Snare track and copy the chain to the Tom tracks.

Agent   ❯ [Strata Agentic Engine]
          ✓ Scanned VST3/AU host plugins
          ✓ Inserted 'FabFilter Pro-Q 3' into slot 0 on Track 2 (Snare)
          ✓ Copied insert chain from Track 2 to Tracks 3..4

Key Features

What Your AI Agent Can Do in Strata Studio

Instead of manually clicking through complex menus, searching for shortcuts, or tweaking individual knobs, you command your AI assistant (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Hermes, Gemini, etc.) in plain English. Here is what your assistant can do in your session right now:

🚀 Available AI Session Commands

• Session State & Transport: Set project tempo, update time signatures, jump playhead position, play/pause/stop transport.
• Track Setup & Leveling: Add audio/instrument tracks, set track volume & pan, mute/solo tracks, run automatic gain staging.
• Plugin Management: Insert VST3/AU plugins, tweak normalized parameters, copy plugin chains from one track to another.
• Timeline & MIDI Editing: Place audio clips, set start offsets & durations, program MIDI notes, transpose melodies.

Developer Guide & Building from Source

Strata Studio is an open-source, high-performance C++20 DAW engine built for AI-driven music production. AI agents control the DAW via the skills/daw-cli/SKILL.md skill definition.

./scripts/install_dependencies.sh

# Build & run unit tests
./scripts/build.sh debug --test

# Build release binary
./scripts/build.sh release

# Packaged release
./scripts/build.sh release --package

Development & Roadmap

Agentic Layer (daw-cli) Feature Status

• Session State & Transport (status, transport) - Fully Implemented
• Tracks & Gain-Staging (track, prep) - Fully Implemented
• VST3 / AU Plugin Host Management (plugin) - Fully Implemented
• Clips & Timeline Editing (clip, midi) - Fully Implemented
• Bus Submixing & Auxiliary FX Routing (route) - In Progress
• Non-Visual DSP Analysis & Audio Intelligence (analyze) - In Progress
• Stem Exports & Asynchronous Render Jobs (export, job) - In Progress

License

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