Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Studio 56 Inc, a Delaware corporation ("Studio 56," "we," or "us"). They coverstudio56sounds.com, where you make sounds in your browser, the Studio 56 plugin, the sounds and other outputs you make, and our related services (the "Service"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your information.

Who can use Studio 56

You must be at least 18 years old. You are responsible for giving accurate account information, keeping your sign-in details secure, and everything that happens under your account. Tell us promptly if you think your account has been compromised. Each person may have only one account.

The Service

Studio 56 is a website and software for making synth sounds. You make a sound in your browser, by hand or by asking our AI, save it to My sounds, and send it to your DAW, where it plays inside the Studio 56 plugin. The AI's replies are written by AI, not by a person. Parts of the Service run on your computer, and parts run on Studio 56 servers and those of our providers. The Studio 56 plugin sends us information about how it is used, as our Privacy Policy describes.

The Service is in beta and changes often. Features, AI providers and platforms may change, subject to the plan terms below and any notice the law requires. We don't promise that the Service will always be available or that any feature will stay the same.

Plans, billing and cancellation

Free plan. Every account has the free plan, at no cost. Building a sound by hand in your browser is always free, and you can save as many sounds to My sounds as you want. The AI answers your account's first 3 asks in all, counting only an ask whose answer changes your sound, and 1 for a visitor without an account. The first 3 sounds your account sends to your DAW are free and keep playing whatever plan you have; sending more needs a paid plan, which sends as many as you want.

Paid plans. Pro is a monthly subscription. We also sell Starter, a monthly plan with a smaller usage allowance, and Pro paid by the year. The price and what each plan includes are shown before you pay; today Pro is $10 per month, Starter is $8 per month and Pro yearly is $79.99 per year, plus any applicable tax. A subscription renews automatically every month, or every year for a yearly plan, and we charge your payment method on the same day each month or year, until you cancel. By subscribing, you authorize these charges. Members who joined during the founding-beta offer at $9.99 per month keep that price while their subscription stays active without a break. A Pro monthly subscription started before December 1, 2026, free trials included, keeps $10 per month while it stays active without a break, even if the price of Pro changes later; a paused subscription keeps it too.

Free trials. We no longer offer free trials: a paid plan is charged from the day it starts. A free trial that started before we stopped offering them runs to the end it was given: its payment method is charged on the day the trial ends and then every month, or every year for a yearly plan, unless you cancel before then, and we email you a reminder a day before that first charge. If such a trial ends without a payment, because you cancelled or the payment did not go through, what it sent or made beyond the free plan's first 3 sends stays saved but does not play in the Studio 56 plugin, or in songs that use it, until you start Pro.

Who sells your purchase. We may sell subscriptions and other purchases through Link, a service of Stripe, which then acts as the reseller and seller of record for the payment. When it does, checkout says the purchase is sold through Link, Link charges your payment method, collects any sales tax or VAT, sends your receipts and handles billing questions, and your card statement shows LINK.COM. You can also manage or cancel a subscription Link sold at link.com. Link's terms cover the payment; these Terms cover Studio 56 itself.

Cancelling. You can cancel online at any time in Settings > Plans & usage. Cancelling stops future charges. You keep your plan until the end of the month, or year, you have already paid for. Your account then moves to the free plan. Everything you've made stays in My sounds, where you can keep opening and changing it in your browser, and the sounds you sent to your DAW keep playing in the Studio 56 plugin (see "The Studio 56 plugin" below). What a free trial sent that ended without a payment is the exception described under "Free trials" above. Once a year we will remind you of your subscription and how to cancel it.

Price changes. If we change the price of your subscription, we will email you between 7 and 30 days before the new price applies, with the new price and how to cancel. If you don't want to pay the new price, cancel before it applies.

Refunds. Payments are non-refundable, except where the law requires a refund (including the EU and UK right described below), or where we decide to refund you, for example after a Service error.

Taxes. Prices don't include taxes unless we say so. Sales tax, VAT or similar taxes are added at checkout where required.

Usage allowances. A paid plan includes a usage allowance, not a fixed number of sounds, asks or messages. Usage is measured by the resources your requests use, which depend on things like how complex the request is, the conversation so far and which AI model does the work. Where available, the Service shows roughly how much of your allowance is left and when it resets.

Work that is delivered uses your allowance, even if you cancelled the request before it finished or you don't like the result, because AI and computing resources have already been used. A piece of work that fails does not use your allowance or count toward the free plan's 3 asks. We may restore usage after a verified Service error. We never charge overage fees. When you reach your allowance, the AI pauses until it resets or you choose to upgrade. Paid allowances reset with your billing month, unused usage does not roll over, and we may apply reasonable temporary limits to protect the Service and other users.

Changes to plans. We may change plans, prices, allowances or how usage is measured for the future. We will not reduce what a paid plan includes during a month you have already paid for, unless it is necessary for security, abuse prevention or legal reasons.

Plugins you have bought

A plugin you have bought from Studio 56, such as one from the Studio 56 shelf or one you made and paid to keep, keeps opening and playing in the Studio 56 plugin, whatever your plan, including after we stop selling it. It plays on any computer signed in to the account that bought it, without the pause described under "The Studio 56 plugin" below. Buying it gave you a license to play it there, not ownership of the plugin or its code, and the license is yours alone: you can't sell, transfer or share it, or the account that holds it. We may update it, for example to fix it, improve its sound or change its look, and the Studio 56 plugin installs the update. Opening it needs you to be signed in, so it depends on the Service running; songs that already use it keep playing as described under "The Studio 56 plugin" below. We don't promise it will work with every future version of your computer's operating system or your DAW, and "Disclaimer" and "Limitation of liability" below apply to it.

The license lasts as long as your account does. It ends if you delete your account, if we close your account under "Suspension and termination" below, or if you withdraw from the purchase or we refund it, and the plugin then leaves your account. If we close your account without cause, or have to remove a plugin you bought for a legal reason, such as a claim that it infringes someone's rights, we refund what you paid for it.

EU and UK consumers

If you are a consumer in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you have the right to withdraw from a paid subscription, or from buying a plugin, within 14 days of the purchase, without giving a reason. To do so, use the Withdraw from a purchase page, linked at the foot of every page and in Settings, or email oliver@studio56.ai and say you are withdrawing, or, if Link sold it, ask Link. We will refund you within 14 days, and a plugin you withdraw from leaves your account. If you asked us to start your subscription straight away, we may keep an amount for the part of the service you received before you withdrew.

Nothing in these Terms removes the protections that the consumer laws of the country where you live give you and that cannot be waived by contract.

Your content and outputs

Your content. You keep ownership of the prompts, files and other content you give the Service.

Your outputs. The music and audio you make with Studio 56 are yours, and we claim no rights in them. The sounds you save are kept in My sounds, for you to play and change in your browser, and the sounds you send play in your DAW inside the Studio 56 plugin. They are made of Studio 56 software, which stays ours, so making one gives you the right to use it as these Terms describe and does not give you ownership of it or of its code. Other users may receive similar results, so we can't promise that yours will be the only one like it.

Studio 56 software in your sounds. Your sounds are made of Studio 56 software, such as our sound blocks and the code that plays them. We keep ownership of it and give you a worldwide, royalty-free license to use your sounds in your browser and inside the Studio 56 plugin, as described under "The Studio 56 plugin" below. You may use them in your own music, recordings, performances, videos, streams and commercial releases. The plugin saves copies of them on your computer so that it can play them, and those copies are for the plugin alone. Unless we agree in writing, you may not take them out of Studio 56, run them in other software, take them apart, or sell, share, publish or otherwise distribute them as software products, plugin packages or competing services. This limit applies to the software your sounds are made of, not to audio you make with them. Saving a song as a file from the menu under the Studio 56 mark in your browser and opening it in Studio 56 again, sharing a song by its link, and sharing a song from your DAW are allowed, as described under "Songs you share by link" and "Songs you share from your DAW" below.

The Studio 56 plugin. You install the Studio 56 plugin once in your DAW and sign in to it with your Studio 56 account. While you are signed in, it downloads the sounds you send to your computer and checks your account. The sounds you send, and plugins you bought, play on any computer signed in to your account. Anything else your account has in it plays on one computer at a time: while the plugin makes sound on one computer, it is paused on any other computer signed in to the same account until you choose Play here on that computer or the first one has been quiet for a few minutes. When you are signed out, songs you've made keep playing with their sounds as they were saved, on a computer that already has those sounds, but you can't open other sounds or change them until you sign in again. If the plugin has not been online for 90 days, it signs you out the next time it connects, and it works as it does when you are signed out until you sign in again. The plugin also checks for newer versions of itself and installs them.

Songs you share by link. The menu under the Studio 56 mark in your browser can share the song you are making by a link. A shared song is shown with its name and the maker name you choose, and it is listed with other shared songs on studio56sounds.com. Anyone can open it and play it, and anyone signed in can make a copy of their own to change, save and share. Everyone can see how many times it has been opened and copied, and a copy names the song it came from. Recordings you added to it are not shared. By sharing a song you permit all of this, and the limits above on selling and distributing apply to everyone who copies it. If you delete your account, the links to the songs you shared stop working, and copies others already made stay with them.

Songs you share from your DAW. A song saved in your DAW carries a pass for each sound in it that you made with Studio 56. Anyone who opens that song while signed in to the Studio 56 plugin can download that sound and play it in that song at no cost to their allowance, and you can see how many people have it, but not who they are. If you allow it, they can also keep it for their own songs, which uses part of their allowance and returns some usage to you, up to a limit in each usage period. By sharing a song you permit this. The sound stays in your account, and the limits above on selling and distributing it apply to everyone who has it. If you delete it or your account, it can no longer be downloaded, and songs keep playing it only on computers that already have it; the same is true of a sound you kept from someone else's song.

Open-source and third-party components. Outputs may include open-source or third-party code, sounds, presets or other material. Those components stay under their own licenses, which take priority over these Terms for those components. These Terms don't give you ownership of them.

Your permission to us. You give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, process, change the format of and display your content and outputs, only as needed to provide, secure and improve the Service, including our team's quality review. We don't use your content to train AI models, and we will ask you before we ever do.

Feedback. If you send us ideas or feedback, we may use them without owing you anything.

Your responsibility. You are responsible for having the rights you need to submit your content and to use, distribute or sell anything you make with the Service.

What you may not do

• Break the law or infringe anyone's intellectual property, privacy or other rights.
• Create malware or anything designed to harm people, computers or data.
• Copy another company's code, interface artwork, presets or trademarks, or present a sound as another company's product. Making a sound that is similar to another instrument's is fine.
• Get around usage limits, for example by creating extra accounts.
• Bypass copy protection or licensing, in the Service or in anyone else's software.
• Attack, overload, scrape or try to gain unauthorized access to the Service, or reverse engineer it except where the law allows.
• Use the Service or its outputs to build a competing AI model or service.
• Break the usage rules of the AI providers we use.
• Use the Service if you are in a country under comprehensive US sanctions or are on a US government list of restricted parties.

AI limitations

The Service relies on AI and automated systems. Outputs may be incomplete, wrong, insecure, unoriginal, not work as expected, or be unsuitable for what you want. Test outputs before you rely on them, release them or distribute them. We don't promise that outputs are original, free of others' rights, fit for a particular purpose, ready for production, or free of security problems.

Studio 56's intellectual property

Apart from your content and outputs as described above, Studio 56 and its licensors own the Service, including our software, sound blocks, branding, interface designs and documentation.

Suspension and termination

You can stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or close your account if you break these Terms, don't pay what you owe, create legal or security risk, or misuse the Service. Where reasonable, we will tell you first and give you a chance to fix the problem. If we close a paid account without cause, we will refund the unused part of your current month. Sections that by their nature should continue, such as ownership, payment, disclaimers, limits of liability and disputes, continue after your account ends.

Disclaimer

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, THE SERVICE AND OUTPUTS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, STUDIO 56 AND ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSORS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA OR GOODWILL, ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR US $100.

These limits don't apply to liability that the law does not allow us to limit, such as liability for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence.

Indemnity

To the extent the law allows, you will defend and compensate Studio 56 and its affiliates, licensors and service providers against third-party claims, and the resulting losses and reasonable legal costs, caused by your content, your outputs or your breach of these Terms.

Disputes and governing law

If you have a problem with the Service, please contact us first so we can try to resolve it informally within 30 days. California law governs these Terms, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute will be decided in the state or federal courts located in Santa Clara County, California, and you and Studio 56 agree to those courts' jurisdiction. Either of us may instead bring an individual claim in small claims court. If you are a consumer outside the United States, you may also bring a claim in the courts where you live, and the laws of that country that protect consumers still apply to you.

Changes to these Terms

We may change these Terms. When we do, we post the new version on this page and change the date at the top, and it applies from that date. If you don't agree to a change, you can cancel and stop using the Service. If you keep using the Service after a change, the updated Terms apply. A change to the disputes section will not apply to a dispute we already know about.

General

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any terms shown for a specific feature or offer, are the whole agreement between you and Studio 56 about the Service. If a court finds part of these Terms unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. If we don't enforce a right straight away, we don't give it up. You may not transfer these Terms to someone else; we may transfer them as part of a merger, acquisition or sale of our business. We may send you notices by email to the address on your account.

Contact

Studio 56 Inc, 4546 El Camino Real B10 #556, Los Altos, CA 94022, United States

Email: oliver@studio56.ai

Phone: +1 (650) 946-6494

California residents: the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs can be reached in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, CA 95834, or by phone at (916) 445-1254 or (800) 952-5210.