SoundboxA LIVING SOUND ENVIRONMENTWELCOME TO SOUNDBOX 1.0
Drop a particle. Catch the rhythm.
Let your next idea float to the surface.
Soundbox turns a glossy physics playground into an instrument: drop shapes into a stream of particles, and every bounce plays a note.
For Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit · Mac: not yet · The sketch plays right here in your browser, no download needed
| Free demo | Full studio | |
|---|---|---|
| Sounds | 10 | 378 |
| Scenes | Basic shapes | 60 arranged scenes |
| Colliders · emitters | 6 · 1 | 62 types · 8 |
| Song studio, saving, recording | No | Yes |
| Time limit | None | Lifetime key, or 3 months |
| Price | Free | US$100 lifetime or US$30 for 3 months, once |
SoundboxFountain plaza · actual footage, mutedSoundbox SKETCHSESSIONCascade01An interactive illustration with two browser voices. The real studio is shown in the tour and screenshots below.
IT’S EASY · THREE STEPS TO YOUR SOUND
Part playground, part sound studio. All the structure you need to finish a song, and all the freedom you want to get happily lost.
Arrange glossy colliders from 62 types, set them sliding, orbiting or swinging to the beat, aim up to eight emitters, and send particles flying through portals, gel trampolines and gravity fields. True bounces, rolling and gusty wind turn every collision into a note.
Explore 378 sounds, from watery chimes and pearl keys to chiptune leads, retro desktop dings and a glossy drum kit, all a search away in the sound browser. Import your own audio, capture it live, and slice it into something brand new.
Write beats, melodies and chords with any sound, stack arrangements for drums, harmony and hooks, then save your session, record the master mix to WAV or export MIDI.
NOW PLAYING · THE OFFICIAL 2.2 TOUR
A 1:42 trip through the real Soundbox 2.2, from its desktop themes and dark mode to scene effects, lights and Song studio, with a soundtrack that comes straight from the app’s own master output.
Soundbox Playersoundbox-tour-2.2.0.mp4 · 1:42PLAYLIST · 12 CHAPTERS
2.2 footage: recorded in the 2.2 development preview at 30 frames per second, before the 2.3 preview’s new sounds, colliders, motion and effects, which the screenshots below show. Every sound comes from Soundbox itself, with no microphone, system audio or added music. The full studio requires a license; the free demo has ten sounds and five basic shapes.
Startup daydream in the new Aero Gel theme, with a bubble swarm and screensaver ribbons.
14 interface themes restyle the whole studio: Classic Glass, Deep Aquarium, Liquid Chrome and more.
Dark mode for every theme; the 13 theme backgrounds turn to night.
Dolphin lagoon: a liquid pool with leaping dolphins. Ten scene effects live on the FX tab.
Glass garden: scene lights, a swaying meadow and butterflies.
True bounces, rolling and spin. Time scale slows the whole world down.
Song studio: instrument tracks, step melodies and chords from the 110-sound library.
Euclid rhythms, humanize and a metronome. Export MIDI when the song is done.
Capture the master output, audition slices and add them as instruments.
Mix level and pan for each collider, then choose a reverb space.
Save a scene to My presets. Export a portable project with its audio.
Link the playground to the song: each note lands on its collider as it sounds. Soundbox 2.2.
The studio also supports imported sample pools, granular sampling, live input, MIDI output and reusable sound presets. External input and MIDI devices are not connected in this recording. Built-in tours and confirmed resets help you explore safely.
WHAT YOU GET IN SOUNDBOX 1.0
268 new sounds, 35 new colliders that can move on their own, eight effects that join the physics and 22 new scenes, drawn by your graphics card when it can. All of it is in Soundbox 1.0, alongside everything from earlier versions. Read the 2.3 notes
A plaza fountain and a water jet toss droplets between bobbing lily pads while air streams carry the spray.
FRUTIGER AERO · 94 BPM · Aero jet streams · Lily pads bobbing on the beatKelp sways, koi sweep and drifting bokeh nudge a slow cloud of bubbles toward a dew magnet.
FRUTIGER AERO · 74 BPM · Lens bokeh · A swinging soap filmPhosphor bumpers and beat-timed flippers under a rolling scan field, with a drain that costs you the ball.
EARLY RETRO · 139 BPM · CRT scan field · Arcade flippersWindow frames, a progress bar and a recycle bin click through a desktop of magnetic icons.
RETRO DESKTOP · 117 BPM · Desktop icons · A recycle bin268 new original sounds: Aero water, glass, gel and birdsong; early retro chiptune leads, FM bells, noise drums and floppy seeks; and Y2K desktop startups, dings, dial-up chirps and pocket ringtones. Browse opens all 378 by bank and category, with search, favorites, recently used and a quick listen.
35 new types in three families. Gel trampolines, water jets, soap films, kelp beds and koi ponds; pixel staircases, CRT bumpers and arcade flippers; floppy slots, progress bars, recycle bins and a dial-up spiral. Every one is animated, on every finish.
Make any collider slide, orbit, spin, bob, swing or patrol, at its own speed or in time with the song. Particles ride moving colliders and get flung off them, and dragging one while the scene plays pushes particles aside instead of popping them through.
Aero jet streams, Lens bokeh, Pixel snow, a CRT scan field, a Warp grid trampoline, Desktop icon magnets, a Tide surge and Cursor trails. Switch on Effects move particles and they carry, lift, knock and bounce the particles. The FX tab groups all 18 effects by theme.
With hardware-accelerated WebGL2, the graphics card draws the playground. GPU visuals add refracting glass colliders, soft-shadow lighting, bloom, color grades and shader backgrounds; Off keeps the classic look, and Compatibility keeps the Canvas 2D stage. Graphics settings never change how particles move or sound.
From Fountain plaza and Sky dock to Pixel castle, CRT arcade, Dial-up handshake and Millennium trance: 22 new factory scenes, each with its own groove, look and new sounds, most with moving colliders or new effects. The preset menu is grouped and searchable.
Also in 2.3: the master level goes up to 200% (up to 100% nothing changes; above it the level rises evenly to +15 dB while the limiter keeps it clean), .soundbox project files get their own glossy Aero Gel icon and open with a double-click, a ⚙ Settings dialog, grouped and searchable Add collider and preset lists, and up to 20,000 particles. Soundbox keeps itself up to date through its own signed update check.
SINCE 2.2 · FOURTEEN DESKTOPS
Fourteen whole-interface themes after the desktops of the early 2000s, a dark mode for every one of them, and scenes that sparkle with water, bubbles, critters and light. See everything that’s new
Sky, water and glossy gel.
New default · Sky glass · Water dropletThe original Soundbox 2.1 look.
Aqua waves · PearlLate-90s bevels with a glassy twist.
Classic desktop · Desktop iconsRounded blue title bars and a green go button.
Rolling hills · Flower petalLickable aqua buttons on pinstripes.
Aqua swirl · Gel dropBrushed metal and a glowing display.
Spectrum display · Mini discTinted glass frames over an aurora.
Aurora glass · Light orbRoyal-blue media center with green orbs.
Media flow · Music notePlatinum gray with ridged title bars.
Bubble horizon · Y2K charmTranslucent fruit-colored plastic.
Jelly float · Jelly beanY2K chrome, holograms and star sparkles.
Chrome grid · Chrome starUnder the sea: reef, fish and light shafts.
Coral reef · Tropical fishFresh leaves, dew drops and sunshine.
Leaf garden · LeafA handheld organizer with an olive screen.
Pixel land · LCD pixel artIn the studio, a theme restyles everything: title bar, panels, buttons, knobs, dialogs and scrollbars, plus its own playground background, particle symbol and collider finish. Here, Try this theme dresses this website in its colors and background. Hover a card to watch it move.
Every theme and palette has a night side: Off, On or Match my computer, or one click on ☾ Dark in the status bar. Surfaces sink into calm, low-glare tones, accents keep glowing, and the playground brings out moons, stars, fireflies and a backlit LCD.
18 living effects on the FX tab: a glossy liquid pool, hit ripples, a soap bubble swarm, koi, butterflies and leaping dolphins, plasma links, gel blobs, a swaying meadow, glowing mist, glass shine and screensaver ribbons, plus eight more that push particles around. Let them push and carry particles too, if you like.
Place up to eight glow orbs, stage spots, sunbeams and disco prisms. They cast soft shadows, put rim light on colliders, sparkle on passing particles, flare on hits and pulse with the beat.
Colliders keep their own bounce and friction, rebounds match their setting, and nothing slips through a thin edge. Particles roll, spin and curve through gusty wind, so every scene plays a little more like the real world.
Play your song and each note sends a particle on a clean arc. It touches its collider as the note sounds, within about two thousandths of a second, so the playground dances right on the beat.
Solo, Euclid rhythms, humanize, tap tempo, a metronome, count-in and MIDI export in Song studio. New reverb spaces from Glass hall to Cathedral, softer soft hits, a gentle look-ahead limiter on the master and, in 2.3, a master that goes up to 200%.
SONG STUDIO · FROM LOOP TO SONG
Song studio is a real music maker: instruments, melodies, chords and stacked arrangements, with 378 sounds to play, from shiny early-2000s plucks to chiptune leads and retro desktop chimes, and a playground that dances along.
SONG STUDIO · BROWSER SKETCH
Light up a few steps, dream up a melody and press play. A tiny taste of the real Song studio, right here in your browser.
Turn on JavaScript to play the Song studio sketch.
Four simple browser voices keep this sketch light. The real Song studio plays any of the 378 sounds, with chords, up to eight stacked arrangements, Link playground and MIDI export.
Add instrument tracks straight from the 378-sound library, picked in the same searchable sound browser as the playground. Set each instrument’s note, level, pan and length once, and every track that plays it follows along. A playground collider can still lend its sound whenever you like.
Flip the pattern to Pitch and give every step its own note, always in the song’s key. Play tracks as triads, sevenths, fifths or octaves, and generate a fresh rhythm or melody whenever you need a spark.
Stack up to eight arrangements that play together, each with its own sections, mute and repeat. Delete a section right from its card, copy an arrangement and build your song lane by lane.
Every sound shows the note you’ll hear. Pick a note name and octave, or let collisions choose from your own set of notes: at random, or as a rising, falling or bouncing arpeggio.
Switch on Link playground and every note of your song sends a particle in its track’s color that lands on its collider exactly as the note sounds. Colliders light up with their instruments, right on the beat.
New in 2.3: Aero steel pans, gel basses and a bubble drum kit, early retro square leads and FM brass, and Y2K trance stabs, vocoders and polyphonic ringtones, on top of the 30-sound Aero 2000s collection.
SHOWCASE SCENES · NOW WITH EFFECTS & LIGHT
Every showcase scene arrives with an arranged song, a playground tuned to its own set of notes and its own animated background. In 2.2 each one also brings two scene effects and its own lights. Try a look on this website, too.
A lounge groove of congas and soft keys, with dolphins and koi splashing through a sunny lagoon.
92 BPM · Ocean · Sunlit lagoon · Liquid pool & dolphinsA 2000s trance anthem: supersaw stabs, a bouncing bass and a glossy lead over a four-on-the-floor kick.
136 BPM · Lilac desktop · Trance sunrise · Plasma links & glass shineHand drums, glass harmonica and a vibraphone arpeggio in a garden of birdsong and ripples.
84 BPM · Forest · Glass meadow · Meadow & butterfliesA bright desktop-pop beat with droplet piano, liquid plucks and a startup chime that says hello.
120 BPM · Aqua original · Desktop daydream · Bubble swarm & screensaver ribbonsTAKE A LOOK INSIDE
Actual screenshots from a 2.3 preview build; the studio plays on its GPU stage with GPU visuals on. Every feature is explained on the feature tour.
The screenshots show a 2.3 preview build. The free demo has no time limit; it includes one emitter, six placed colliders, up to 80 particles, ten sounds, five basic shapes, a studio light and two scene effects. Saving, recording, sampling and song tools require a license.
CHOOSE YOUR EDITION
Play the free demo for as long as you like on your own computer. When you want the whole studio, unlock it with one payment: a lifetime key for US$100 or a 3-month key for US$30. No subscription.
Windows desktop · 64-bitFree demo
Build 3.0.0 at launch · System requirements
Full edition US$100 · one-time
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Soundbox is a standalone Windows desktop application. It is not currently a VST, AU or AAX plugin. You can export a WAV recording to bring your ideas into another music application.
Absolutely. The full studio can import audio, capture live input and slice recordings into samples. Use recordings you own or have permission to use. Built-in recorded sound credits are included with Soundbox.
You bet. Soundbox includes 14 interface themes, each with a dark mode, 11 signature palettes, 14 UI colors, three glass finishes, 27 playground backgrounds (22 of them animated), 19 particle styles, 14 collider finishes, saved personal looks, knobs or sliders, precise values and a dedicated mixer. Press Customize in the site header to try the themes on this website, too, or explore the feature tour.
No. Computers with hardware-accelerated WebGL2 draw the playground on the graphics card, and GPU visuals add refracting glass, soft shadows and bloom at Full and Ultra quality. Everywhere else the Canvas 2D stage draws the same scenes, and Graphics → Display lets you choose. Graphics settings never change how particles move or sound.
A license key unlocks the full studio on one computer at a time. Soundbox checks the key online when it activates and about every 15 minutes while the studio is open; after a successful check the studio keeps opening without a connection for 3 days. Moving to another computer can wait up to 24 hours. The demo never needs a connection. Activation help.
You can deactivate the old computer from Soundbox. For a lost or broken computer, contact support for help with a device reset. Reinstalling Windows on the same computer keeps your activation; a new motherboard needs a reset from support. More answers are in the FAQ.
No. They are small interactive illustrations: the playground sketch has two synthesized voices and the Song studio sketch has four. The tour film and screenshots show the actual application. Full-studio features require an activated license; the free Windows demo provides the simplified playground described above. The sketches do not use your microphone or collect a device identity.
THERE’S SO MUCH MORE TO DISCOVER
60 arranged scenes. 378 sounds. 62 collider types. 14 interface themes. Take the complete feature tour.
NOT EVERY GREAT IDEA STARTS WITH A PLAN.
Some start with a bounce.
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