The creative process is dynamic.
It’s bursts of inspiration, long hours in the studio, and moments when the right idea seems just out of reach. 2024 has been a transformative year at Splice. We’ve continued our work to break down creative barriers, making our platform more accessible and more powerful for music creators by enhancing workflows and expanding our sound library.
We believe that when producers have more control, creativity thrives—with the release of user audio in June, we started to turn this belief into action. This tool lets Splice users start with their own musical idea by uploading their own loop to Splice. Our AI then scours our industry-leading library of samples to help compose and create around that central musical concept. Users who start with their own sound are five times more likely to export Stacks and finish them in a DAW. This data highlights the importance of keeping users at the center of the creative process, and we intend to continue this work.
Putting Splice inside the DAW felt like the natural step to empower even more creators to start with sound. With the launch of Splice and Studio One Pro 7, we put Splice technology even closer to our users’ creative workflow. Thanks so much to everyone who tried it and provided us with their insights. Your feedback is invaluable to our future decisions. We’ll keep improving this experience and hope to announce more partnerships in 2025.
Our library’s impact continues to resonate across the industry, with samples from Soul Surplus, SOPHIE, and Oliver powering some of the year’s biggest hits. We continue our endeavor to record the world and tell the stories of musicians everywhere. Our ever-growing library now boasts over three million sounds, showcasing an extraordinary range of diversity—from rare instruments like the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle to the Brazilian cavaquinho. In 2024, we added seven new instrument tags, 23 new genre tags, and three new in-house labels: Signature, We Make Noise—celebrating the voices of women-identifying producers—and Splice Country, featuring the authentic Nashville sound of 2024 CMA winners Devin Malone and Mikey Reeves. In total, we dropped 1,017 new packs, adding over 350K new sounds to inspire creators worldwide.
We know that originality is key to expressing your unique sound. You don’t want to sound like everyone else. That’s why we introduced Rare Finds—a filter designed to uncover hidden gems in the Splice catalog. Think of it as AI-powered crate digging, helping you discover fresh, under-the-radar sounds to keep your music innovative and your work truly your own.
And that brings us to our mobile app’s latest beta feature. Many of you have told us that capturing ideas straight to your phone is a key part of your workflow, so we built a mic that travels with you. You can now record your own layers into your Stacks using Create in the Splice mobile app. After recording, Splice AI can add compatible sounds or even flip it to an entirely different genre, until you have the perfect songstarter. From there, directly export your creation to flesh out further in your DAW. Never lose an idea and make the most of your screentime.
Looking ahead
Next year, we have updates to Splice Country, fresh amapiano and Afro house sounds recorded on our trip to South Africa, and a new label dedicated to indie sounds. 2024 was about empowering your creativity and simplifying your workflow. As we look towards 2025, Splice remains committed to helping you explore new artistic directions, find your signature sound, and bring your ideas to life faster and more completely. We can’t wait to hear what we create together.
December 23, 2024
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