File detection.
Point Styx at one or more music folders. It scans recursively and identifies every DAW project file inside, regardless of how deeply nested. The session you saved in a folder called "stuff" four years ago shows up in the same index as the one you're working on today.
- Supports Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Pro Tools, Reaper, Studio One, and Cubase
- Launch any session in its native DAW with one click
- Automatically organizes by folder structure with DAW filtering
- Finds sessions you may have absolutely forgotten about
Groups and tags.
Create custom groups to organize related sessions. A bunch of projects might belong to the same EP, album, client, or genre. Pull them into a group and they're easier to find next time you need them.
Each session can also carry a status tag that tracks where it is in your workflow:
Track your release workflow by updating the status of projects inside the same group. The taxonomy you've been keeping in your head, finally written down somewhere the tool can use.
- Create custom groups for any organizing principle that makes sense to you
- Assign completion status to each project
- Track your release workflow by updating status across a group
- Tags and groups live in Styx; your DAW files are never modified
Project preview.
Audition a session without opening your DAW. Drop your bounces or stems into a project's folder and Styx finds them, indexes them, plays them inline. You can listen to twenty sessions in the time it used to take to open one in Logic.
Each project shows its associated audio files, its session metadata, and a direct link to the file's location on disk. You don't have to launch your DAW to remember what something sounds like.
- Audio previews of any bounces or stems associated with a project
- Open the session in its DAW with one click when you're ready to work on it
- Reveal the session file in Finder for easy backup or sharing
- See all files and resources associated with a project in one view
Share stems with collaborators in a few clicks. Track which versions you've sent, and to whom. Stop hunting through Final_v2_USE_THIS folders when a collaborator asks for the vocal stem.
Search and filter.
Once Styx has indexed your sessions, finding any of them is fast. Search by project name. Filter by DAW. Sort by last modified date. Combine filters to narrow a library of two thousand sessions to the four that match what you're looking for.
The search is local and instant. No cloud round-trip, no spinner. You type a few characters and the list narrows in real time.
- Filter by DAW to see only Ableton sessions, only Logic, and so on
- Sort by last modified, ascending or descending
- Search by name across your entire library
- Combine filters: "Logic sessions from 2023 tagged Demo"
Cloud storage and sync.
An upcoming feature. Styx will let you sync chosen folders to the cloud and access them from anywhere. You pick what syncs; nothing else leaves your machine.
- Work on your projects from any workstation
- Never lose a session to a drive failure
- Choose which folders sync; the rest stay local
The infrastructure is being built carefully. Cloud sync touches your work, so we'd rather ship it slowly than ship it wrong. We'll write more about the privacy and reliability model before it goes live.
Getting started.
Three short phases. About ten minutes of setup, then the tool runs on its own.
Initial setup
After installation, choose your main music production folders. Styx scans them once and keeps watching for new sessions. You can add or remove folders any time.
- Add the folders where your DAW projects actually live
- Set the default DAW filter to "All" or a specific tool
- Configure sort order (most-recent-first is the default)
- Toggle completion status on individual projects as you go
Organize your projects
Once your library is indexed, start grouping the sessions that belong together. This is the part that pays off later.
- Create groups for the categories you actually use: genres, clients, EPs, albums
- Pull related projects into each group
- Tag the status of each project so future-you knows what's done
Add bounces and preview
For any project you want to audition without opening your DAW, drop the bounce files into a folder Styx can see.
- Put your bounces in the same folder as the session, or in a dedicated bounce folder
- Styx indexes new audio files automatically
- Listen to multiple versions inline, side by side