Licence

Last updated 21 September 2026 · a draft, to be checked before launch

This is the agreement between you and Pyrokinesis Ltd, a company registered in New Zealand, about using Songling. We have tried to write it so that you can read it. Where it is plain, it is meant plainly.

The music you make is yours

Everything you write with Songling belongs to you, completely and for ever. Record it, release it, sell it, licence it to a film, register it with a collecting society. You owe us nothing, you need not credit us, and we claim no share, no royalty and no rights of any kind in it. That is true of the chords you find here, the progressions you build, the MIDI and MusicXML you export, and any audio you render using Songling's sounds.

This does not change if your licence ends for any reason. Work you have already made stays yours.

What you may do

• Install and use Songling on up to three computers that you own or control, as the app, the Audio Unit and the VST3, in any combination.
• Use it for anything you like, including commercial work, with no further payment.
• Move it to a new computer. You can free a machine's place yourself in Settings › License, or ask us and we will.
• Keep using the version you bought, offline, indefinitely. Songling never expires and does not need an internet connection to keep working.
• Make a backup copy for your own use.

What you may not do

• Share, sell, rent, lend or give away your licence key, or publish it. One licence is for one person.
• Redistribute Songling itself, or any part of it, whether or not you charge.
• Take the sounds out and pass them on as sounds — as a sample library, a sample pack, or an instrument for another program. Music you make with them is yours; the raw material is not yours to hand on.
• Extract the chord and scale library and republish it as a dataset or a competing catalogue. Using what you learn from it in your own music is exactly what it is for.
• Take Songling apart to work out how it is made, except where the law gives you that right anyway — you keep every such right, and nothing here is meant to take one away.
• Remove or hide the notices that say who made it and what it is built on.

What you are buying

Songling is bought once. There is no subscription, and nothing stops working if you stop paying, because there is nothing to keep paying. You are buying a licence to use the software, not the software itself — we keep the copyright, as every software maker does.

Updates to version 1 are included at no extra cost. If there is ever a version 2 large enough to be a new product, it may be a new purchase — and we will say so plainly and in advance, not quietly.

The sounds, and what else is in here

Songling's instruments are recorded by other people and used with their permission. The full list, with each licence, is in the app under Settings › About and in the THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES file that comes with it. Your right to use those sounds in your music is unrestricted; your right to pass them on as sounds is not, as above.

Your statutory rights

Wherever you live, the law where you live gives you rights that no agreement can take away — that what you buy is as described, of acceptable quality and fit for purpose, and that you can ask for a repair, replacement or refund when it is not. In New Zealand that is the Consumer Guarantees Act; in the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia and most other places there is an equivalent. Nothing in this licence affects any of it. Where anything written here conflicts with your rights under your own consumer law, those rights win.

See Refunds for how cancelling and refunds work.

What we do not promise

Beyond the rights above, Songling is provided as it is. We cannot promise it will suit every piece of music, run on every combination of computer and DAW, or never have a fault in it. We test it in Logic, Ableton Live, Cubase, REAPER, Studio One, Bitwig and FL Studio, and we fix what we find.

We do not exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. Subject to that, and to your statutory rights, our total liability to you for anything arising out of Songling is limited to what you paid for it.

Keep your own backups. Your songs live on your computer, in your user folder, and we never see them — which also means we cannot recover them for you.

If this agreement ends

If you break the terms above in a serious way, we may end this licence, and you would then need to stop using Songling and remove it. We would write to you first, and give you a chance to put it right, unless what happened made that pointless. Your music stays yours regardless — see the top of this page.

The small print

This agreement is governed by the law of New Zealand, and the New Zealand courts can hear any dispute about it. If you are a consumer, that does not take your own country's protection away: you keep the consumer rights your local law gives you, and you can bring a claim in your own courts.

If one part of this agreement turns out to be unenforceable, the rest of it still stands. If we do not enforce something straight away, that does not mean we have given it up.

We may update these terms for future purchases — the version you agreed to when you bought is the one that applies to you, and the date at the top says which that is.

Asking

Anything here you would like in plainer words, or think is unfair: support@songling.app. We would rather hear it than have you sign something you are unhappy with.