Kuon R&D

You have not yet heard your own true sound.

KUON R&D · FOR MUSICIANS WHO RECORD THEMSELVES

With Kuon,that practice room becomes a studio.

Measure the room, record, and finish —no installation, just your browser.

Start free. Every tool and the finishing steps are in Concerto: $19.99 a month ($199.99 a year).

A stereo microphone on a stand and a recorder in a wooden-floored hall, at a Kuon recording session
Runs in your browser
Available in 4 languages
36 apps
Free, from ¥0

Recording is the one thing you have always carried alone.

You have a teacher for playing. A luthier for your instrument. For recording, there has never been anyone.

You set up the tripod, set the levels, listen back — and somehow it is not right.

That feeling is not your playing. It is the room, and the microphone.

A Manifesto
Kotaro Asahina — Founder of Kuon R&D

Why Kotaro Asahina is building Kuon

I have brought together, in Kuon, the tools I truly found I needed as a working musician. I want to create a place where musicians everywhere can focus more on making — and above all on their creativity — and where, here and there across the world, small buds of culture quietly begin to grow. That is the wish of Kotaro Asahina.

ALL IN ONE

Scattered tools, made one.

Creating, learning, organizing. From recording, separation and mastering to storage, notes and transcription — are you subscribing to all of them separately?

A musician juggling many separate apps
DAW$23
Stem separation$17
Noise & restoration$20
Mastering$12
Cloud storage$10
Notes$11
Transcription$13
What used to be separate, now in one place
All of this used to live in separate tools — each bought, installed and learned on its own.
Buying the four above outright
¥77,200 (JPY)
With Kuon, per month
$19.99
From $0.55 a day.

Kuon runs in the browser alone. Nothing to install, nothing to replace.

$199.99 a year. The four apps above can also be bought outright.
* The four apps above can also be bought outright, future updates included. The monthly plan includes the same four.

The world's scattered music tools — united in Kuon.

On the annual plan, that is $16.67 a month.

All of this,
for just $0.55a day.

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Free, or Concerto.

Just two plans. No more deciding.

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$0.00
  • 20+ free browser apps
  • DAW: 2 tracks with basic effects
  • DAR: 1 track (record, edit, master)
  • VIDEO SYNC (line up video and audio perfectly)
  • File sharing: 2GB per transfer · ad-free
  • Vault: 2GB for your work
  • No credit card required
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per year $199.99
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  • Full DAW (multitrack, all KUON FX)
  • Full DAR (record, edit, master)
  • AI stem separation SEPARATOR (15/mo)
  • Auto-subtitles & transcription (99 languages)
  • Lesson recording LESSON RECORDER (20/mo, with summaries)
  • Classical analysis (Roman numerals, modulation, voice leading)
  • Intonation analysis INTONATION (cent precision)
  • AUDIO MIRROR (compare against a reference)
  • Host Collaborate sessions (co-create with musicians worldwide)
  • File sharing: no capacity limit
  • Vault: 100GB for your work
Kuon original
  • Room Capture — measure your room, auto-correct
  • KUON FIELD — match rate against the sound field you aimed for
  • KUON STAGE — measure and save a room's acoustics
  • KUON SPATIAL — spatial audio & immersive export
  • KUON CD MASTER CHECKER — verify CD masters (DDP) in the browser
  • DSD CONVERTER — play and convert DSD in the browser
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All 60 lines

Everything free and paid can do

A 60-line table. What is free, and where the paid line falls, written out in full

P-86S stereo microphone — Kuon R&D

MICROPHONE

Kuon R&D builds the software — and the microphones.

The microphone an audio expert built for himself.

Kuon makes hardware too. Full AB-stereo recording from a single unit, hand-soldered one by one — studio-grade sound from ¥16,900.

¥16,900〜tax incl. · free shipping in Japan · P-86S / X-86S
AB stereo in one unitHand-soldered · made in Japan
INSIDE KUON

Made, around the world.

Piano, voice, strings. Across borders and instruments — musicians recording themselves.

Kuon — Hands at the piano in a practice room
Pianist
Recording her own playing, in the practice room
Kuon — A vocalist at a studio microphone
VOCALIST
Studio Session
Kuon — A music student practicing the cello
MUSIC STUDENT
Recording her own playing, in the practice room
LEARN

Everything we know is already written down.

Microphone placement, room reverberation, music theory, acoustics, gear. Everything Kuon R&D knows is published in the Journal. Free.

If reading is not enough, just ask.

KUON AI answers questions on music theory, harmony and acoustics. KUON AI does not generate music. It never forces one interpretation on you; the final choice returns to you. You can try it on the free plan; with Concerto you can talk without interruption.

About KUON AI

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