What has shipped, and when
Song Cage is built by one person, and the honest way to show that it is looked after is to show the dates. Every desktop, plugin and Melody Rack release is below, oldest at the bottom.
Updates are included with the licence for the whole v1.x line and arrive through the in-app updater. Nothing here needs a subscription.
September 2026
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The top bar keeps its shape on smaller screens and in narrower windows: it shortens labels as it runs out of room instead of letting controls overlap, and the song name and its menu stay reachable.
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The top bar keeps its shape on smaller screens and in narrower windows: it shortens labels as it runs out of room instead of letting controls overlap, and the song name and its menu stay reachable.
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Import voice memos into the plugin: the Ideas panel now offers Phone, Computer and Words, and a file the DAW’s browser can’t open is handed to the host to decode. Android recordings import too. Used ideas keep their place in the list, and each idea is tagged for where it came from.
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A piano roll for detected melodies: drag notes in pitch and time, trim either end, split or add with a double-click, sing the pitch a note should be, snap to the timeline’s grid, and re-detect just the notes you select. Trimming a take’s ends hides notes instead of deleting them. Cmd+Z undoes melody edits. A tuning note can sound under the count-in before a vocal take.
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Android voice memos import. Used ideas keep their place in the Ideas list instead of dropping to the bottom, and each idea is tagged for where it came from (Capture, Phone, Computer, Melody Rack).
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A piano roll for detected melodies: drag notes in pitch and time, trim either end, split or add with a double-click, sing the pitch a note should be, snap to the timeline’s grid, and re-detect just the notes you select. Trimming a take’s ends hides notes instead of deleting them. Cmd+Z undoes melody edits. A tuning note can sound under the count-in before a vocal take.
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Dragging a note now follows the hand and commits once when you let go, so a move no longer stutters with Chords on; each semitone crossed is sounded on the way. Cmd snaps a trimmed edge to the grid. Motif's mirrors and reversals are drawn as made notes, not sung ones. Chord names in flat keys are spelled with flats. The trial streams everything live; dragging the clip out comes with the licence.
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Trimming a take no longer throws anything away. The notes outside the edges are drawn washed back instead of deleted, and dragging an edge out brings them back whole, in tune and in time. And the key can now be read off part of a take: pick out three notes or more on the roll and the suggested keys come from those alone, so a phrase you sang well can set the key for the whole idea and pull the rest of it into line.
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Cmd+Z undoes your last edit inside the plugin window instead of undoing the DAW, in Logic and REAPER alike. With nothing left to undo, the key goes back to the DAW.
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Recordings made before you sign in are kept. A take saved into a brand-new song or idea now reaches your other devices instead of staying on the machine it was made on.
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Sing a wrong note right: pick it out, hold S, and sing or play the pitch you meant. Drag either end of the take on the ruler to set how long it is. Takes are deleted one at a time from their own number, and the corrections for a picked note now sit behind one word, or a right click on the roll. Fixes a scrollbar across the whole window at some sizes.
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Drag either edge of a note to trim it, and double-click an empty spot on the roll to add one; hold and drag to set its length. A dragged note now stays under the pointer, with a tag showing where it is; Shift holds its pitch and Cmd snaps it to the grid. Cmd+Z undoes inside the plugin instead of undoing the DAW. Flatten writes a take as you hear it, parts and all, as a new take that can go through the rack again. The take bar stays one row instead of folding as you work.
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Rename a song from its title, confirm before deleting an idea, and the Ideas panel always shows the free ways in (folder, phone, paste) even when captures are waiting on Pro.
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The phone page now says it takes notes as well as recordings. Rename a song from its title, confirm before deleting an idea, and the Ideas panel always shows the free ways in (folder, phone, paste) even when captures are waiting on Pro.
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Morph, a thirteenth effect: sing a take twice and one dial walks the line from the first to the second. The last five takes now stay, with a number for each on the take bar, and the Arp has a Level dial.
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Every slider is now a dial, and the effects under the roll take about a third less width. An open effect folds down to a rail so a big patch fits on screen, and the bar a take plays at is a field you type into. Fixes a sung take arriving with no pitch curve, which left Expression with nothing to keep, and the pitch axis spelling a flat key in sharps.
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Bones, a twelfth effect: it keeps the notes that carry your tune and writes a new melody on them. Hum a verse and turn four dials for its chorus; roll again for another.
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The trial is anchored to your account on the server, so it can’t be restarted by moving the clock.
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The trial is anchored to your account on the server, so it can’t be restarted by moving the clock.
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Licensing: a 14-day trial on your Song Cage account, and a one-time unlock.
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Drag the effects into any order. Rest on a note and In Key says why it moved it, or why it left it alone. Record from a MIDI keyboard with K.
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First public release. Sing a melody in your DAW and run it through a rack of eleven harmony-aware MIDI effects. AU and VST3, Mac and Windows.
August 2026
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PayPal as a second way to pay.
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PayPal as a second way to pay.
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Out of beta, with voice memo import: point the app at a folder of recordings and it files them in the idea inbox.
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MIDI step entry: hold a chord on the keyboard and it lands in the armed slot, then the cursor steps on.
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MIDI step entry: hold a chord on the keyboard and it lands in the armed slot, then the cursor steps on.
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Play chords and melodies in from a MIDI keyboard, and route the plugin’s output to chords, melody, or both.
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Native MIDI input, so a keyboard plugged into the Mac or PC plays straight into the app.
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New melody detection model, bundled into the plugin so it runs with no download and no server.
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Recording fix that shipped alongside the bundled model.
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New melody detection model, bundled into the app so it runs with no download and no server.
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Guitar fingering MIDI export added to the menu.
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Mute now wins over solo, the way it does in a DAW.
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Mute now wins over solo, the way it does in a DAW.
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Deleting a take no longer takes another take’s audio with it.
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Deleting a take no longer takes another take’s audio with it.
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Stopped the plugin swallowing MIDI the host was sending through it.
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Fixed the plugin failing to load in Ableton Live.
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Timeline click targets and undo behave the same in the plugin as in the app.
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Octave and paste fixes.
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Edit ▸ Undo undoes the song, not just the text field you were in.
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Cut, Copy and Paste now say whether they mean text or blocks, and there are separate menu items for each.
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Fixed the plugin still showing a buy prompt to people who had already paid.
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Fixed the app still showing a buy prompt to people who had already paid.
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Opens offline instead of spinning forever when there is no connection.
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Right-click menus on blocks, syllable splitting in place, and a marquee gutter for selecting across lanes.
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Right-click menus on blocks, syllable splitting in place, and a marquee gutter for selecting across lanes.
July 2026
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Exports let you choose where the file goes instead of being silently cancelled.
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June 2026
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First public release. AU and VST3 on macOS.
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May 2026
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First beta.
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First build that ran outside a browser.
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First build that loaded in a DAW.
Try it before any of this matters to you
The desktop app and the plugin both run for 14 days with no sign-in and no card. If you buy and it is not for you, email me within 30 days and I refund it in full.