Your DAW Sings.
The Lyrics‑First Vocal Instrument.
Write lyrics. Play MIDI. Hear them sung.
Write it. Play it. Hear it sung.
No piano-roll surgery or phoneme editing required. Cantai DAW Edition works the way songwriters already do.
Write your lyrics
A built-in notebook holds your song — verses, choruses, and all. Edit freely, any time, like any text you'd write.
Play your melody
Record MIDI on the track as usual. Cantai mirrors every note onto its melody map automatically, staying in sync with your session.
Place words on notes
Select a word, a phrase, or a whole verse — drag it onto your notes, or assign it with a keystroke. Press play and hear a real vocal performance, rendered on your machine.
Sticky Lyrics.
Once a word belongs to a note, it stays there. Rewrite a line and the melody keeps singing. Rerecord a passage and your words find their notes again. Rearrange the song and the lyric follows. Even add or remove notes inside a phrase — the words stay put. Patent pending.
Non-destructive MODs.
Shape the performance while your notes stay exactly as you played them.
Every MOD is applied at render time. Stack a Unison ensemble, loosen the timing with Humanize, shift the register with Transpose, or let Vocalise improvise scat syllables over your melody — then switch any of them off and your original take is untouched, down to the last tick of MIDI.
Harmony reads chord symbols written right in your lyric notebook — jot Cm7 above a line and the voices follow.
Everything a vocal track needs.
Inside the plugin — no extra tools, no exports, no round-trips.
- ✓The full Cantai voice library
- ✓Renders locally on your machine
- ✓Non-destructive MODs
- ✓Chords sing — every voice carries the syllable
- ✓Follows your dynamics, ppp to fff
- ✓Optional Global Lyrics — one lyric sheet shared by every Cantai track
- ✓Score mode — notation-app Cantai projects play in your DAW and update instantly as you edit the score
- ✓Sounds-like pronunciation overrides — retype any word the way it sounds, in caps, and Cantai remembers
Spell it like it sounds.
If a word ever sings wrong, retype it the way it sounds, in capital letters. Cantai takes the hint, restores your original spelling, and remembers that pronunciation from then on.
From score to session.
DAW Edition also runs in Score mode. Point it at a Cantai project from Dorico, Sibelius, or MuseScore Studio and it plays your rendered voices in sync with your session — each part on its own track, under your faders, ready to mix. And it stays live: tweak a lyric or a note in your notation app and the new render appears in your DAW instantly.
Works with your DAW.
One license covers every host you use, on macOS and Windows.
Ableton Live
FL Studio
Logic Pro
Pro Tools
Cubase
Studio One
Reaper
And more — Cantai runs in any AU, VST3 or AAX compatible host.
Reserve your copy.
Preorder now and lock in half off the launch price. Estimated delivery early 2027.
then $299 after launch
One license · macOS and Windows
- ✓High-fidelity vocals in AU, VST3 and AAX compatible hosts
- ✓All voice types included
- ✓Unlimited local renders*
- ✓Priority support
- ✓Free updates through launch and beyond
*Only on compatible devices
Estimated delivery early 2027 · Price rises to $299 at launch · macOS and Windows, AU, VST3 and AAX compatible hosts
Cantai DAW Edition is in active development. Preorders are fully refundable any time before release.