Splice Launches Create, Its First Digital Audio Workstation
Splice has launched Create, its first digital audio workstation, the software musicians use to record, arrange and mix songs. Billboard reported the launch on 6 November 2026.
Splice is best known for its sample library, the collection of short recorded sounds that producers drop into tracks. Create is built to mix and match those samples, so a musician can start a song from pieces that already exist and find the right sound faster.
The program also brings in AI. It includes a chatbot that offers production tips and carries out instructions given by voice or text. Splice describes the assistant as both agentic and assistive, meaning it can take steps on a user's behalf while also helping them along. The company says the aim is to help new producers learn the software and finish their songs.
Splice's library holds more than three million samples and loops, all of them human-made and licensed. A loop is a section of sound that repeats. Splice says it provides only human-created samples, loops and instruments, and it uses AI to adjust them, changing timbre (the character of a sound), key and tempo (the speed of a track).
Create began as an AI-powered tool for mixing Splice samples and finding sounds more quickly. After Splice acquired Kits AI, it grew into a full workstation.
Chief executive Kakul Srivastava says the company wants to teach people rather than do the work for them. Its mission, she said, is 'not to create a song for you, but to show you how to do it and collaborate with you.' That position is a clear contrast with some AI music tools. In 2023, Srivastava told Billboard that 'push button' creativity in generative AI removes the creator from the process instead of putting tools in their hands.
The argument is not new for her. In a 2024 interview with MusicTech, she told AI sceptics to 'trust the artists' and said she believes in human creativity.
For a new producer, the pitch is straightforward. Open the program, ask a question or describe a sound, and work through a finished track with help from the software. Whether Create changes how new producers make music is a question for the months ahead, and the answer will come from the people using it.
