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noodlr studio your space to play + plan music.

A musical space to Play & Plan

Before production there's play: hums, loops, jams. After it there's planning: the release, the artwork, the gig. Noodlr gives both a proper home.

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Drag nodes · tap the kalimba or strum plate (sound on)
Noodle · EP sketch
Tape Loop⏻SM
TAPE LOOP
bassline_hum.m4a
0:03.2 → 0:11.8 · loop
Whistler⏻SM
WHISTLER · PITCH → MIDI
E3G3A3C4A3
Bass synth⏻SM
POLYSYNTH
Cutoff
Res
Attack
Release
Arp
Ant · live⏻SM
AAnt
Chris · live⏻SM
CChris
Endless Sequencer⏻SM
ENDLESS SEQUENCER
Kalimba⏻SM
KALIMBA · 17 TINES
NotePad⏻SM
NOTEPAD
Ant: tweak the filter?
Chris: on it, listen now
BeatBox⏻SM
BEATBOX · 8 VOICES · PATTERN A
KICKSNARECLAPHATOPENTOMRIMCOW
Looper⏻SM
LOOPER · 4 TRACKS
Strum⏻SM
STRUM
CAm7FGEmDmFmaj7Am
Web App⏻SM
WEB APP
your-drum-machine.app
● Noodlr bridge · MIDI
WAM Gain⏻SM
WAM 2 · CURATED
WAM Gain
+3.4 dB
XY Pad⏻SM
XY PAD
X cutoffY grain
Radio Sampler⏻SM
RADIO SAMPLER
Late-night jazz · live
clip 00:07 saved to Tape Pool●
Input

A hum. A tap on the table. A radio snippet.

Ideas show up anywhere. Capture them on your phone in seconds, whistle a melody into MIDI, or grab a clip off the radio.

Whistler⏻SM
WHISTLER · PITCH → MIDI
E3G3A3C4A3
Radio Sampler⏻SM
RADIO SAMPLER
Late-night jazz · live
clip 00:07 saved to Tape Pool●
Play · before the DAW

Shrink the time to sound.

An infinite canvas of instruments, loops and effects. Patch a cable and you hear it, with no setup. Invite your bandmate and play together, live, from different cities.

Ant · live⏻SM
AAnt
Chris · live⏻SM
CChris
Endless Sequencer⏻SM
ENDLESS SEQUENCER
Chris is tweaking⏻SM
POLYSYNTH
Cutoff
Res
Attack
Release
Arp
Looper⏻SM
LOOPER · 4 TRACKS
12 people in a live sessionVoice + video on the boardTape Loops play in syncAudio + MIDI cables25 built-in nodes
Aux in · open plugins

Every web plugin can join the jam.

Noodlr is open by default. Web Audio plugins and web apps patch into the same board as ours, with the same cables.

WAM Gain⏻SM
WAM 2 · CURATED
WAM Gain
+3.4 dB

WAM 2

Web Audio Modules route audio through the board.

CMajor Sine⏻SM
CMAJOR · CURATED
CMajor Sine
A3 · 220 Hz

Cmajor

Cmajor WebAudio instruments and effects, cabled like any node.

Web App⏻SM
WEB APP
808-in-a-browser.app
● Noodlr bridge · MIDI

Any web app

The humble iframe plus @noodlr/plugin-sdk: board MIDI in and out, with its state saved.

Your DAW

Timelines are brilliant. They're just not the only way.

We love DAWs, and we'll happily lose an afternoon to automation lanes. Noodlr boards will get mini timelines of their own too. But music also happens in loops, sketches, conversations and plans, so Noodlr makes space for those, either side of your DAW.

● Play · before Your DAW ● Plan · after
Tape Loop⏻SM
TAPE LOOP
bassline_hum.m4a
0:03.2 → 0:11.8 · loop
Bass synth⏻SM
POLYSYNTH
Cutoff
Res
Attack
Release
Arp
Kalimba⏻SM
KALIMBA · 17 TINES
1591317
EP track 1 FINAL FINAL v4.1
Plan · Noodlr EPGig at the Dareshack

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Setlist 24 min

  1. Hang On, Play That Again4:12
  2. Voice Note 373:48
  3. Radio Snippet5:05
  4. FINAL FINAL v4.14:30
Plan · after the DAW

Get the music out into the world.

The release, the artwork vote, the gig, the setlist and the crew, on one board next to the music. No more scattering it across chats, email and whiteboards.

Plan · Noodlr EPRelease + live show

Calendar Nov

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Setlist 24 min

  1. Hang On, Play That Again4:12
  2. Voice Note 373:48
  3. Radio Snippet5:05
  4. FINAL FINAL v4.14:30

Crew

AAntBass, synths, the hum
CChrisDrums, mix, arp randomness
JJoArtwork + projections

Timeline

Jam
Produce
Artwork
Release

List

  • Master 3 tracks
  • Pick distributor
  • Confirm projector
  • Send set times

Poll · EP cover

Tape photo
Hand-drawn noodle
Whiteboard scan
Values

Songs, shows, records, or something nobody has named yet.

Unfinished ideas have value.We believe

Collaboration should feel like playful interaction, not managing files.We believe

Serious music can come from playful tools.We believe

Creative tech should invite more people in.We believe

Audio Developer Conference 2026

Spaces outside the DAW

What would a creative tool look like if it treated play, conversation and planning as part of making music, rather than the admin around it? Ant and Chris share their own jam-to-EP-to-gig journey, and demo two musicians in different places tweaking the same bass synth in real time.

See the session on audio.dev
  • →Minimising the time to sound
  • →Music is made on timelines and off them: spatial, visual, non-linear
  • →The spaces outside the DAW are underserved
  • →A web plugin ecosystem, ready to grow
  • →Project planning that's linked to the music
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The noodlr manifesto

Musical ideas don’t spring into existence arranged on a timeline.

They begin with a hum, a tap on the table, a randomly named voice note, a radio snippet, a sample, or someone saying ‘hang on play that riff again…’

That early stage of music-making matters. It is playful, messy, social and full of possibility. It can be chaotic and liberating. But most DAWs overlook that early ideation phase, and overlook music creators who love spending time in that messy chaotic stage of music making. Instead DAWs try to rapidly funnel ideas through a rigid process of arrangement and production, before the idea has even had a chance to breathe.

Noodlr exists to build a better space for what happens around the ‘serious music production’ phase.

Before the DAWPlayA place to capture fragments, connect ideas, experiment with sound and collaborate without getting buried in setup.
After the DAWPlanA place to organise releases, performances, artwork, collaborators and everything involved in getting music out into the world.

We love DAWs. We are the kind of music nerds who lose an afternoon to automation and MIDI routing. But DAWs can’t do everything.

Music-making is not always linear. Ideas branch, collide, disappear, return and become something unexpected. Creative tools should support that. They should feel visual, flexible, joyful and a little bit toy-like.

They should also be open and understandable by default: welcoming to experienced musicians, useful in education, and approachable for people still finding their way into music.

  • We believeUnfinished ideas have value.
  • We believeCollaboration should feel like playful interaction, not managing files.
  • We believeSerious music can come from playful tools.
  • We believeCreative technology should invite more people in, not remind them what they don’t know.

noodlr is a creative board for musicians: a home for musical fragments, shared experiments and the glorious mess that surrounds making something real.

  • A place to play before production.
  • A place to learn by making.
  • A place to plan what comes next.
  • A place for ideas to become songs, shows, records, or something nobody has named yet.

Music can thrive in the spaces outside the DAW. Let’s make more space for it.