Which one's
the one?

A local-first desktop studio for the many bounces of a song. Keep every take, tag what's worth keeping in each, and pull those ideas into the variants you ship — a main mix, a club mix, a radio edit — without a single file leaving your disk.

Local-firstTauri desktopWaveform-forwardNo cloud · no accounts
See how it works
take$— snap in the one
◗ CLIP RACK — tap a cartridge to load it
01Rough IdeaDEMOphone memo in the kitchen, just the vibe2:41
02Big ChorusMIX 2doubled the hook, stacked synths, punchier drums3:04
03❚❚Late NightMIX 3★ THE ONEstripped the drums, more reverb — feels right2:58
❚❚▶ NOW PLAYINGLate Night2:58 / 2:58

The best version is almost never a single take.
The final is a collage.

I make a lot of versions. A song might go through a dozen bounces before it's done — the hook from mix 2, the drums from the radio cut, that reverb tail from a late-night pass. I kept ending up with folders full of final_v3_REAL.wav and no easy way to see which idea lived in which file, or to pull the strongest pieces into one. Nothing did that well — so I built it.

— Danielle McKee, Arc Theory

Find and build your variants.

A song lives as a stack of bounces. Keep every asset in one place and tag the best moment in each — then pull those ideas into as many variants as the song needs. A main mix, a club mix, a radio edit, each drawing from different takes.

One song · many assets
Neon Hourglass4 assets
Rough IdeaDEMO0:18Full vocal
Big ChorusMIX 20:41★ Hook
Late NightMIX 31:12Reverb tail
Radio CutMASTER0:52Drums
Your variants
Main Mix3 ideas
Hookfrom Big Chorus
Full vocalfrom Rough Idea
Reverb tailfrom Late Night
Club Mix3 ideas
Hookfrom Big Chorus
Drumsfrom Radio Cut
Reverb tailfrom Late Night

Review, note, decide.

A real clip from one of my songs, with notes dropped straight onto the audio — one thing to fix, one part worth keeping for the remix. Play the clip below from any of the markers.

take$ · Sky High.mp30:00 / 0:22
0:00 / 0:22

Built where your files live.

01

Big files stay put

Bounced WAVs are large. Take$ references your audio in place on disk — nothing gets uploaded anywhere.

02

Real filesystem access

The groundwork for stem-by-stem work across Logic projects — the kind of reach a browser sandbox can't give.

03

Single-user, offline, fast

No accounts, no cloud, no sync tax. It opens instantly and works on a plane.

Shell: Tauri v2 (Rust) · UI: React + Vite · Audio: Web Audio API

Where it's headed.

V1
The core loop

Library → versions, WAV import, Web Audio playback, timestamped notes with tags, arrangement sections, and “the one” starring.

✓ Shipped
V1.2
Assets / versions split

Tag bounces into variants, per-version note review, and note segments you can replay while listening back.

✓ Shipped
V2
Compare & carry forward

A/B compare, the cross-song keeper timeline, note export, and drag-drop import in the desktop window.

In progress
V3
Stem-by-stem

Import individual stems straight from Logic projects and note them track by track.

Planned
Makin' Take$.

Take$ is actively being developed for my own music production. If you're interested in learning more — or want to help shape features — let us know.