stem — Own your sound. Forever.

Imagine this:
You record one guitar take, one vocal hook, one weird synth stab in your bedroom.
You drop it into a collab.
That stem travels the world — remixed, sampled, buried in a viral hit, licensed to a Netflix show — and no matter how deep it gets buried, you are automatically paid, forever, without asking permission from any label, platform or algorithm.

No more BandLab bugs.
No more SoundCloud takedowns.
No more “exposure” instead of royalties.
Just you, your DAW, and unbreakable proof that you created it.

That’s stem.

For every creator (yes, even if you hate wallets)

• Render a stem → you instantly own it
• Share the project → everyone hears your latest version
• Someone forks, remixes, blows up → you still get paid (default 10 %, forever)
• No central platform can mute, demonetize or delete you
• Works in Logic, Ableton, FL, whatever — stays in your DAW

For the producers & techies who will build it with us

stem is Git for multitrack audio stems, running 100 % peer-to-peer + onchain provenance.

• Every stem = content-addressed stem:// CID (lives forever on IPFS/Arweave)
• Every project = one tiny JSON manifest (tracks, creator wallets, royalty splits)
• Plugin = JUCE VST3/AU with two buttons: “Upload my track” + “Pull latest project”
• Royalties baked in from day one (EIP-155 wallet + royaltyBps)
• Forking = copy the manifest, change the ID, now it’s yours exactly the same way

v0 spec — shipping this month

• Manifest v0 schema (human-readable JSON)
• First ugly-but-working JUCE plugin (Logic + Ableton)
• Free permanent storage via web3.storage / Arweave
• No login, no server, no bullshit

This is not my repo. It’s ours.

• Star if you want this to exist
• Open an issue if you want to co-design the manifest
• DM @niclariviere your wallet if you’re a producer ready to dogfood the alpha (first 50 get co-author credit forever)

The future of music doesn’t ask permission.
It forks.

niclariviere — December 4, 2025
The day creators stopped renting their own sound.