Introducing Haven

We’ve been hard at work since the pandemic to bring you a stellar music collaboration platform. However, in that time, we’ve begun to experience (and hear from you about your experiences) certain drawbacks due to the nature of the Internet.

It’s amazing what we can do with communciation across oceans and timezones today. But we’re still limited by physics, phenomena such as the speed of light. This ends up making it difficult to instantly share large files with each other, when dealing with the latency of network connections and different speeds between users.

Add to that the looming concern around privacy of our most valuable creative works, and how it seems almost every cloud provider today seems to take liberties in using our own files as training data for their AI models, with permissions buried pages deep in a Terms of Service document most of us just click through. For many who write music as a hobby or a side project, this may not be critical, but for many of the professionals whose entire livelihood requires tracks not getting leaked until the published date, this can be a dealbreaker.

Combining these needs, we realized that Tonic may need to take the next step to address these issues. And the only way we know how to do this is to bring Tonic Audio’s software directly into your studio, running on its own hardware.

With that, we’re proud to introduce Tonic Audio Haven®, the first network-attached storage (NAS) device specifically built for audio professionals.

We won’t echo all the specifications here, you can find them all listed in the link above. What we will say, and what we’re most proud of, is threading the needle between privacy and collaboration, and making it feel like an extension of your collaborator’s files, without reliance on any cloud offering whatsoever, even ours. This is done through a few novel technologies bundled up under the umbrella commonly known as LoFi (Local-First) tech. We think the future of many apps will move in this direction, and we’re embracing it fully within the Haven product.

We’re super excited to show you more, but now it’s the heavy work of designing and building this hardware product and make it available to you all. We’re very excited to get it into your hands.