“Think Google Docs meets a creative sandbox like Fortnite or Minecraft”: Audiotool 3.0 turns its multiplayer online DAW into an open platform for creator-built music toolsAudiotool 3.0 has arrived, a ground-up rebuild of the brand’s highly collaborative browser-based DAW. The new iteration of the platform brings real-time multiplayer music creation to web browsers and tablets, with native mobile versions coming soon.
Audiotool 3.0 also sees the launch of NEXUS, a new open-source SDK that lets musicians and developers build their own instruments, plugins, and AI-connected music creation tools directly into the platform.
“I’ve spent most of my life in studios, and the thing that got in the way of creativity was almost never the people in the room. It was the software,” says Audiotool co-founder and producer Daniel Rowland. “Audiotool 3.0 takes that wall down. People can finally create together using any device, anywhere, and we’re giving them a way to build the tools tomorrow’s music will need.”

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While sharing projects between producers has become easier over the years, differing devices, incompatible plugins and missing files can still slow sessions to a crawl.
Audiotool says its rebuilt platform is designed to remove those barriers by allowing users to collaborate in real time from virtually any device, with what it describes as the lowest latency of any online music production tool.
Beyond collaboration, Audiotool 3.0 also opens up the DAW itself through NEXUS. Rather than relying solely on built-in features, users can create their own instruments, effects, visualisers, educational tools, music games and hardware-connected apps. The SDK also supports AI integrations via MCP and Context I/O, allowing creators to connect their preferred large language models (LLMs) to the platform.
“Think Google Docs meets a creative sandbox like Fortnite or Minecraft. The DAW becomes a platform where creators can build, experiment, and make music together,” says Audiotool co-founder and CEO Andreas Jacobi. “And with low- and no-code development tools, people who never saw themselves as developers are bringing entirely new perspectives to how music is created. The next generation of music tools will be shaped by the people actually making the music.”
Launch partners for NEXUS include Splice, Ujam, BandM8 and Fraunhofer, with Audiotool inviting more music technology companies to bring their products to the platform. The company is also hosting its Let’s Build! hackathon series, which runs from now through 23 August.

More information is available at Audiotool.
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