Mission

We create unique tools that allow musical ideas to be developed interactively and brought to life.

With us, you are supported by an intelligent knowledge base and many creative features on an equal footing, rather than being at the mercy of AI. You retain full control and all the freedom to follow your own instincts. In the end, you have actually created something yourself that no one else could have created.

We respect and promote individual creativity and reject the exploitation and dilution of human culture by disrespectful AI startups.

Music Prototyping

Music in traditional DAWs or music notation programs is static. With us, you work with dynamic elements that you can transform or replace at any time. This allows you to make profound and dramatic changes that would normally take hours or days. Now you can hear them immediately and make creative decisions with fresh ears. Don't settle for half-finished results just because starting over would be too tedious. Now you can shape music freely without painting yourself into a corner.

Our technology uses symbolic AI for pattern recognition, classification, harmonic analysis, rule-based synthesis, and an algebra for the transformation of musical expressions. Look-ahead processing allows near real-time operation. This means that musical material from a wide variety of sources can be combined and arranged freely.

Company

Cognitone, based in Hamburg, Germany, was founded by André Schnoor, a computer scientist specializing in AI (artificial intelligence) and a musician himself. More than 20 years ago, he developed important foundations for the technology used today, which is constantly evolving. Cognitone focuses on the use of AI to support the composition of music.