DAWJAY STUDIO · FABLE INSIDE · FREE IN THE BROWSER
Make the beat.
Cut the vocal.
Master it like Fable.
A real DAW that opens in a tab: multitrack audio, a synthesized drum machine with a tuned 808, mic recording, a mixer with real meters — and the reference-matching master that finished the DARK catalog, running offline on your machine. No account. No download. No house cut.
CHROME · EDGE · SAFARI · FIREFOX · DESKTOP AND PHONE · YOUR AUDIO STAYS LOCAL
ARRANGE
Multitrack, for real
Drop WAV, MP3, M4A or FLAC — each file becomes a track at the playhead. Move, trim, split, duplicate, loop a region, snap to the grid. Sample-accurate scheduling on Web Audio; loop passes are pre-scheduled so nothing hiccups.
BEAT
A drum machine with a tuned 808
Seven synthesized voices — kick, snare, clap, hat, open hat, perc, 808 — programmed on a 16-step grid, one to four bars, swing, accents. The 808 follows the pattern root and octave. Nothing to download; every hit renders in the export.
RECORD
Vocals from the mic
Arm a track, hit record, the take lands on the timeline latency-compensated. No noise suppression, no auto-gain — the raw signal, so the repair chain has something real to work with.
MIX
Real nodes, real meters
Per-track low shelf / bell / high shelf, a compressor with threshold, ratio, attack and release, pan and volume. Every meter reads an AnalyserNode; the master shows K-weighted LUFS-M and a peak hold. Nothing is a fake VU.
FABLE
The master, the way Fable does it
Pick a reference corridor (LUCKI · SKATE · THAT'S THAT, or load your own track). The 31-band spectrum is measured the way the engine measures it, a PI controller walks the tone to the reference, then the finisher clips in the 4× oversampled domain, verifies true peak, re-gains to the target and iterates. −8.3 LUFS / −0.5 dBTP by default. You get a 27-point grade and a band chart you can read.
REPAIR
Fable Vocal
Gate → spectral de-noise → HP 80 → box cuts at 300 / 520 / 1.1k → two-stage compression → dark plate, level-locked to the clip's own loudness. The repair-only stage from the mastering runbook, offline, undoable.
EXPORT
16 / 24-bit WAV, mix or stems
Rendered offline through the same graph you hear. Sessions autosave in your browser (IndexedDB); download the project JSON for a portable copy. Your audio never leaves your machine unless you send a Pro server render.
HOW IT COMPARES · HONESTLY
FL Studio is a deep desktop DAW with plugin hosting and a piano roll; it costs $99–$499 and lives on one machine. DAWJAY has no VST hosting and no piano roll yet — it has a drum machine, audio tracks, and a master engine FL does not ship.
BandLab is free, cloud-first and social. DAWJAY is free, local-first and private: sessions stay in your browser, audio never uploads unless you ask, and the mastering is the published Fable method, not a black box.
Where DAWJAY wins: reference-matched mastering with a real grade, the proven loudness laws (−8.3 LUFS / −0.5 dBTP release, −7.2 mixtape), a vocal repair chain, and 24-bit stems out — in a tab, in 60 seconds.
Pricing
The studio is free. The paid tiers buy the server side of Fable — stem splits and the full engine render on our machines — and keep the lights on.
FREE
Freeno account
The whole studio. In the browser. No account.
- Multitrack audio — import WAV / MP3 / M4A / FLAC, arrange, trim, split, loop
- Drum machine — 7 synthesized voices + tuned 808, four pattern templates
- Record vocals straight from the mic, latency-compensated
- Per-track EQ · compressor · pan · volume, real meters, K-weighted LUFS on the master
- FABLE MASTER in the browser — 31-band reference match, BS.1770 loudness, 4× true-peak finisher, 27-point grade
- Fable Vocal repair chain + spectral de-noise + gate
- Export 16/24-bit WAV mix + stems · sessions autosave in your browser
MOST PICKED
PRO
$49once · lifetime
Own it. The server side of Fable, lifetime.
- Everything in FREE, forever — one payment, no subscription
- Server stem splits (BS-RoFormer, the same model behind the DARK catalog) — 10 renders a month
- Server Fable master on the real engine with the LUCKI / SKATE / ICEMAN profiles
- Priority in the render queue · 80 MB uploads
- License key works on any device — your projects stay yours
Stripe guest checkout · key shown on the next page · 10 server renders / month · 80 MB uploads
STUDIO
$19/ month
For people who release every month.
- Everything in PRO
- 100 server renders a month (stems · masters · vocal repair when the CP box is online)
- 200 MB uploads · full sessions, not just mixes
- New reference corridors as they land (every album Fable masters adds one)
- Cancel anytime from the Stripe receipt
Stripe guest checkout · key shown on the next page · 100 server renders / month · 200 MB uploads
Already have a key? Open the studio and tap FREE in the top bar to enter it. Lost it? Re-claim from your receipt.
Why this exists
The engineer who mastered the DARK catalog was an AI running one loop: measure the mix in 31 bands, match it to a reference, finish true-peak safe, grade it, repeat until it stops embarrassing you. That loop is now a button in a browser. The free tier is the whole instrument because the catalog was built on the idea that owning your sound should cost nothing. The paid tiers pay for the machines that run the heavy models.
Read the method: open-source stems · the mixing & mastering bible · who Daj' is.