Studio Box
Released
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Make your own beats & music with public domain sounds and export to desktop. Can you sell them? Yes, yes you can. Free use Yo!
by Perske's Productions game
updated 15 hours ago
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Studio Box
Changes
Requested Changes & Natural Improvements
Requested Changes & Natural Improvements
A changelist for Studio Box.

Requested Changes & Natural Improvements

2.1
19 October 2026
Areas
49 changes in this update

Added

13 changes

  • Shout out to everyone who submitted suggestions for the app! (S&Box Reddit and S&Box Reviews)

  • Please remember when reviewing the app that the "Shows Promise" button counts negatively and hinders discoverability.

  • If you feel bad about the game please tell me why so we can change it, but it seems like many people genuinely love what I've made and click that damn button without knowing it hurts.

Effects

  • Distortion types - Choose Warm, Hard, Fuzz or Fold, with new Tone and Mix knobs

  • Track echo - Every track has its own echo with Echo amount, tempo-synced Time (1/32 to 1/2, dotted and triplet), Repeats and Ping-Pong

Automation

  • Automation tab - Make volume, pan, filters, EQ, drive, crush, chorus, echo and reverb/delay sends change over the song

  • Draw automation - Click to add points, drag to move them, right-click to delete, Clear to start over

  • Write mode - Turn on Write and move a knob while the song plays to record it

Sharing & Credits

  • Credits - Every song and every sound you make now records who made it and when, taken from your Steam account

  • Co-creators - Anyone who edits a song, on their own or in a live session, is added as a co-creator next to the original creator

  • Friend-only sharing - Share files and codes open only for the friends you pick

  • Share permissions - Choose Listen only or Can edit for each share

  • Credits in exports - WAV, MP3, FLAC and MIDI exports include the song title, everyone credited and the date

Improved

7 changes
Effects

  • EQ - Set the Low, Mid and High band frequencies and the Mid band width

Sharing & Credits

  • Shared songs are always copies - Opening a share makes your own copy, so the creator's original is never changed

  • Share protection - Shares that have been edited by hand are blocked from opening

  • Friend picker - Friends you've jammed with appear automatically; add others by pasting their Steam ID or profile link

  • Baked sounds keep credits - Save as sound keeps the song's credits and adds your name

Co-op

  • Custom sound streaming - Big sounds are shrunk to fit and sent a little at a time, so sessions don't stall

  • Sound transfer messages - Shows "Getting...", "Got..." or "Couldn't get..." while a friend's sound downloads

Fixed

3 changes
Co-op

  • Friends couldn't hear your sounds - Long imported sounds were too big to send and never reached your collaborators

  • Stalled sounds - A missing sound is now requested again up to 3 times instead of just once

  • Host could start twice - Starting a session freezes the game for a few seconds; clicking again during that started a second session. Now shows "Starting session..." and ignores extra clicks

Removed

1 change
Effects

  • The Character section no longer holds Drive - It moved to the new Distortion section with its new controls

Known Issues

25 changes
Sharing & Credits

  • Credit protection is inside Studio Box only - Other apps can edit or remove the names in exported WAV/MP3 files

  • Old shares - Share files and SBX2.0 codes made before this update don't have a friend lock or permissions

Co-op

  • Very long sounds - Very long imported sounds are sent to collaborators at lower quality so they fit (It's best to share the original sound with the person you want to collab with).

MIDI

  • MIDI still isn't possible via S&Box the way we need it. There are ways to implement it but at the cost of serious lag, depreciation of velocity and limited octaves among other things. I tried to approach this by looking at building a WebSocket Link to a companion app but S&Box refuses localhost connections.

  • If more people use the app the fix is more than likely to publish to steam.

What becomes possible outside S&Box

  • If studio box was distributed via steam instead, we could implement these features plus many more...

  • Music and audio:

  • Real MIDI input: all keys, velocity, sustain pedal, pitch bend, mod wheel and knobs, plus MIDI-learn (map any controller knob to any on-screen control).

  • MIDI output: drive hardware synths and drum machines, or sync tempo with other apps.

  • Audio interfaces: pick your interface, use ASIO for very low latency, and choose the sample rate and buffer size.

  • Multi-input recording: record more than one mic or instrument at once, with real monitoring.

  • VST/VST3 plugins: run third-party synths and effects.

  • ReWire, or sending audio to OBS or other apps.

  • Files:

  • Save anywhere: export straight to the Desktop or Music folder through normal Open/Save windows, and drag and drop files from Explorer into the app.

  • More formats: read more import formats directly (AIFF, M4A, and FLAC import), plus stems from other DAWs.

  • Project folders: real folders that sit next to the user’s other music projects.

  • Social and sharing:

  • Steam friends API: a real friend picker, invites, and direct sends to a friend.

  • Steam Workshop: a public place to post beats, kits and sounds, with creator credit built in and ratings.

  • Steam Cloud: saves follow you to other PCs.

  • Your own server: an offline delivery queue for friend shares, accounts, and stronger protection of creators’ work.

  • Performance and the desktop:

  • Native code: faster DSP, more voices and effects, and multi-threaded mixing.

  • Desktop app behavior: multiple windows and monitors, and a proper app menu.