How Styx Works

File Detection

When you add a music folder (you can add several) to Styx, Styx scans it and its subfolders and immediately recognizes projects from all major DAWs. Styx can find files that you've forgotten about. It identifies DAW files and creates a comprehensive index of your music.

  • Supports Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, and more
  • Launch All DAWs from one place
  • Automatically organizes files by folder and allows filtering by DAW
  • Finds files you may have absolutely forgotten about!

Groups and Tags

You can create custom groups for your projects and categorize them. A bunch of projects may belong to the same EP, album, client or genre etc. Styx further lets you tag each project with a completion status e.g Demo, Mix, Master etc.

  • Custom categories for easy organization
  • Assign completion status to each project
  • Track your release workflow by updating completion status of projects within the same group

Project Preview

Preview your projects without opening your DAW. Styx lets you assign bounces to your projects and listen to them directly from Styx. Styx also lets you assign stems to your projects and will let you share them with your collaborators in a coming soon feature.

  • Audio previews of your projects
  • Share stems with collaborators (coming soon)
  • Assign stems to your projects
  • See all files and resources associated with a project

Cloud Storage and Sync

In a coming soon feature, Styx will let you sync your projects to the cloud and access them from anywhere. You get to choose which folders to sync.

  • Work on your projects from anywhere
  • Never lose a project again
  • Sync your projects across multiple workstations

Getting Started with Styx

1. Initial Setup

After installation:

  • Choose your main music production folders
  • Launch your sessions from Styx
  • Toggle DAW dropdown to ONLY show sessions of a selected DAW (defaults to all)
  • Filter your projects in ascending or descending order of last modified date
  • Search for projects by name
  • Toggle completion status of individual projects

2. Organizing Your Projects

Start organizing your projects:

  • Create custom groups (e.g. Genres, Clients, EP, Album)
  • Tag projects within a group
  • Keep track of completion status of projects within a group

3. Audio Preview and Bounce

Navigate to a project and include a bounce folder:

  • Listen to multiple versions of your project within Styx
  • New audio files added to bounce folders will be automatically indexed