FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is Resin?
Resin builds generative tools for music production. Our first tool is DR-1, a drum engine that renders new drums in the context of your track.
The result is a drum stem built for your session – something you can keep, refine, regenerate, or throw out. Resin’s tools are built for professional workflows: high-quality generation, iterative control, and a workflow that fits the DAW you already use. Our tools work best when skilled producers bring taste and intention, and they reward weirdness, boundary-pushing and precision. They expand creative possibilities; they don’t create shortcuts or replacements for human artistry.
How do I use Resin DR-1?
Take a look at a walkthrough video, look at these videos for inspiration, and most importantly, experiment and figure out what works best for you.
Does Resin DR-1 produce MIDI?
Not today. DR-1 generates drum stems, not MIDI. It’s a natural direction and something we’re interested in, but we’re focused on making the stem-generation workflow excellent first. If MIDI is critical to how you work, drop us an email and tell us, as it helps us prioritize what we work on next.
Does Resin DR-1 work with multiple DAWs?
The web app is compatible with all DAWs: bounce your tracks, drag them into DR-1, and drag the outputs you like back into your DAW to chop and use. We also have a desktop app with additional functionality that integrates into Ableton Live, and we plan to build similar products for more DAWs moving forward.
What was Resin DR-1 trained on?
DR-1 is trained on high-quality tracks and stems that are carefully selected to give our model deep musical knowledge to support users’ creative processes. We don’t train on scraped music, and we don’t train on user uploads. We have licensing partnerships with rightsholders and are expanding these over time. If you are a rightsholder who represents high-quality, original, creative music and are interested in partnering with us, we’d love to speak with you – please get in touch at [email protected].
Does Resin train on my inputs?
No, we don’t. We collect product analytics only: which features get used, how often producers regenerate, whether sessions run long or short, but no audio. The analytics we collect just tell us where the tool is working and where it isn’t.
What can I upload into Resin DR-1?
Only upload material that is yours, or that you’re allowed to use. Don’t upload commercial tracks, unreleased music, ripped samples, vocals, stems, or other material from artists unless you have permission. Resin’s tools are designed to support your taste and workflow, not to imitate or extract from someone else’s work.
What do I own when I make something with Resin DR-1? Can I release music made with Resin DR-1 commercially?
You own what you make with DR-1. Resin does not claim ownership over your songs, sessions, stems, edits, arrangements, or final works.
When DR-1 generates drum material for you, you can use it in your own music and you’re free to release it commercially as long as you have the rights to whatever you uploaded or used as input. When Resin moves to a paid product down the road, anything you’ve already made in the free version stays cleared.
Can I ask Resin’s tools to sound like a specific artist or song?
No. DR-1 isn’t built for artist or song imitation, and it doesn’t support prompts or workflows meant to recreate a specific artist or track. It responds to the musical context of your own session – your stems, your loops, your demo – and generates drums that fit what you’re making.
Is every stem generated by Resin DR-1 unique?
DR-1 generates new drum material from the context you give it, and produces a large variety of different stems for any given context. That being said, no generative system can promise its output will never resemble existing music (cf. infinite monkey theorem). Use your own judgment, especially before releasing commercially. If an output feels too close to a specific song, artist, sample, drum break, or recording, don’t use it as-is – edit it, regenerate it, or leave it out. Resin’s tools are built to support your authorship: what you play, upload, choose, edit, arrange, produce, and release.
How can I give feedback?
We’d love to hear from you. Send us an email at [email protected]!
Something’s not working. How do I fix it?
Shoot us an email at [email protected]. We’ll help you fix it asap.
