Plans, and where the line is
Where the paid line falls,written out in full.
Trying, making and measuring are free. Keeping it at professional quality is Concerto. There are only two plans. The table below lists, feature by feature, what the free plan does and what Concerto does.
20+Over 20 apps on the free plan
60Items listed in the table
0No card needed to register free
- Cancel anytimeFrom your account page, on the spot. We will not try to keep you. Your work stays with you.
- No sales, everNo discounts, no limited-time drops. The price is the same whenever you come.
- The price you join at, foreverIf we change the price later, yours never rises while your plan continues.
Basic editing and export stay free. Concerto is for when you want to take the finish one step further.
Who sets the finishing standard
Kotaro Asahina — recording engineer and microphone designer, and a performing pianist.
He carries on Kaneda-style DC recording, a Japanese school built on direct-coupled signal purity.
He designs and hand-builds the P-86S and X-86S stereo microphones in Japan.
His standard comes from the ear of a musician and the hand of an engineer, in one person.
Free, or Concerto.
Just two plans. No more deciding.
Free
Start with everything
$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
Popular
Concerto
Unleash creativity
$16.67/ mo (billed annually)
per year $199.99
The price you join at, forever.
- 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
- DDP PLAYER — verify CD masters (DDP) in the browser
- DSD CONVERTER — play and convert DSD in the browser
Today is the lowest price there will ever be.
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
Also sold outright
These four areincludedin Concerto.
Each can be bought outright. Buying all four outright comes to the total below. Concerto includes these four and everything else.
KUON DAR 3D
Spatial audio. Layouts from 5.1 to 22.2, and export
¥29,800
KUON MONTAGE
Take stitching. Join takes by bar or phrase
¥22,800
KUON PIANO
Piano tuning. Measures inharmonicity and draws the curve
¥14,800
KUON STAGE
Measured room noise and reverberation, placement planning and miking match. See whether you reached the sound field you aimed for
¥9,800
All four, bought outright
¥77,200
Concerto
¥1,980/ mo
A one-time purchase includes future updates. International customers see local-currency pricing at checkout.
What the free plan does / what Concerto does
This table is the single source of truth for the boundary. If anything in the apps disagrees with it, that is our error. Please tell us.
Included in the free plan
Included in Concerto
Conditions apply
Not included
DAR — record, edit, master
The main workbench. Measuring and trying are free. Finishing is Concerto.
Feature
Free
Concerto
Recording
○No time limit, 32-bit float, up to 96 kHz
◎The same, plus rates above 96 kHz and DSD import
Export
○16-bit WAV / MP3, up to 96 kHz, unlimited
◎Finish at master quality — 24-bit, and lossless AIFF / FLAC
Measurement and analysis
○Loudness, true peak, clipping detection
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Seven meters
○Level, spectrum, spectrogram, phase, correlation and more
◎
Normalize, fades, speed and pitch
○
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Master FX
○EQ, compressor, de-esser, limiter, delay, 20 reverbs, stereo width
◎Plus detailed EQ and reverb editing, and saving your own presets
Six restoration tools
△Compare denoise, declick, clipping repair and more against the original
◎Apply to the audio and save
Speech noise removal
×
◎
Maximizer
△Audition the effect and see where and how much was reduced
◎Apply and save
Streaming target check
△Measurement and a table showing the gap to each platform
◎Adjust to the target automatically
Live recording editing
△Automatic track detection, region editing, monitoring
◎Extract one piece at a time
Automatic silence trimming
×
◎
Tracks
△1 track
◎2 tracks
Saving your work
○Save to your own device
◎Both your device and the cloud
DAW — multitrack
Feature
Free
Concerto
Tracks
△2 tracks
◎8 tracks
Effects
△EQ and reverb
◎All of them
Stem separation
×
◎15 per month
Transcription
△2 per month
◎60 per month
Keeping and delivering
Feature
Free
Concerto
Vault for your works
△2 GB
◎100 GB
File delivery
△2 GB per send, one at a time, no ads
◎No capacity limit, several at once
Practising
Feature
Free
Concerto
Metronome and basic tuner
○Includes slow playback. Practice time is recorded too
◎Review practice by week, year and lifetime as well (free is by month)
Pitch coach
×
◎Three temperaments, recorded pitch analysis, vibrato analysis
Ear training
×
◎Intervals, chords, scales, melodies
Sight reading
×
◎
Learning synth
○Six synthesis methods with a timbre encyclopedia
◎
Drum machine
○138 rhythms from around the world
◎
Scores and theory
Feature
Free
Concerto
Score library
○All 4,000 works
◎The same
Lead sheet editor
△Up to 10 saved sheets
◎No limit on saved sheets
Harmony
○Instant checking of four-part writing
◎The same
Counterpoint
○First through fourth species
◎The same
Transposition
○Transposing note names and reading transposing instruments
◎The same
Transcription helper
○Detects pitch in the browser, lays it on a piano roll, exports MIDI
◎Plus turning what you captured into a score
Measuring and verifying
Feature
Free
Concerto
Analyzer
○Loudness, true peak, correlation and more in real time
◎
CD master (DDP) verification
×
◎Audition track order and gaps, and check compliance
DSD playback and conversion
×
◎Play DSD64 / 128 / 256 and export to WAV
Check the room (KUON STAGE)
△KUON STAGE is included for microphone owners
◎Measure noise and mains hum from silence and reverberation from a clap, and save it to your Vault
Plan the placement (KUON STAGE)
○Try room and mic layouts, and compare what each one picks up and where the bass builds up
◎Use the measured reverberation of your room directly in the plan
Check the placement (KUON STAGE)
△KUON STAGE is included for microphone owners
◎See the match against a reference recording in real time. KUON STAGE is also available as a one-time purchase
Spot mic alignment
×
◎Aligns the arrival time between main and spot mics
Five tools for analogue gear
○Tape remaining and running time, speed calibration, dBu to volts
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Recording and editing
Feature
Free
Concerto
Multi-take comping
×
◎Record a passage repeatedly and join the best parts
Take stitching (MONTAGE)
×
◎Join takes by bar or phrase. Also available as a one-time purchase
Spatial audio (DAR 3D)
×You can open the studio, but not load audio
◎Layouts from 5.1 to 22.2 and export. Also available as a one-time purchase
Piano tuning (KUON PIANO)
×
◎Measures inharmonicity and draws the tuning curve. Also available as a one-time purchase
MIDI sequencing
○Piano-roll editing and export. Video exports carry the Kuon mark
◎Export without the mark
Call recording
○On a computer or on a phone
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Video and audio sync
△Syncing works as is. 8 colour looks, and large files are not handled
◎All 33 colour looks and large files
Converting and preparing
Feature
Free
Concerto
Format conversion
△All WAV options, MP3 up to 128 kbps
◎High-quality MP3, FLAC, resampling, and three formats at once from one source
Batch conversion and loudness matching
×
◎Convert many tracks at once and match each platform’s loudness
Cover art and thumbnails
○Fits each store or video platform’s requirements automatically
◎
Script and teleprompter
○Also estimates reading time
◎
33 colour looks for video
△Apply 8 of them. Anyone can browse the list
◎All 33, plus files for your editing software
Loudness normalization (for microphone owners)
△Use the password that comes with the microphone
◎The same. It is not tied to your plan
Working with others
Feature
Free
Concerto
Collaboration rooms (Kuon TEAM)
△You can join a room you are invited to
◎Create rooms, issue passphrases and manage seats
Calendar
○Track performances and practice with tags
◎
Ensemble scheduling
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Reading and asking
Feature
Free
Concerto
Kuon AI (for music and acoustics)
△Up to 5 questions an hour, as a trial
◎Talk without interruption, with deeper answers and the option to have it think things through
Journal (articles on recording and acoustics)
△Many articles are open to everyone. Some are for members, some for Concerto
◎Every article
Lexicon (glossary)
○No account needed
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Guide library
○No account needed
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If, having read this far, you find you need it.
$19.99 a month, cancel any time. Much of Kuon stays usable on the free plan.
Three promises
You can cancel at any time
You can do it yourself from your account page. We will not try to keep you. The works you have made remain yours afterwards.
The price you join at, forever
If we raise our prices in future, yours does not go up while your subscription continues. A new price applies only to people who join after it.
We do not run sales
There are no discounts or limited-time offers. The price is the same whenever you come. You never have to decide in a hurry.
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