The music that built Noir Labs

There’s a part of the Noir Labs story that I’ve never shared before.

On January 1, 2020 I finished an album I had spent 3 years making. During that process, I built a series of tools born out of the frustration I had trying to get the sounds I wanted. The world and music industry were in flux, so I decided to wait on releasing any music and focus on the software instead. I never thought anyone would actually want any of the tools I made, but hoped a few people might.

I’m glad I was wrong. The enthusiasm you’ve all shown for Noir Labs over the last few years has genuinely changed my life.

Today I’m launching the label side of Noir Labs with its first release, Spirit Jumper.

While mixing it, I used to manually measure gain before and after every plugin and thought there had to be an easier way to do this. This track is the reason Volume Buddy exists. Without the album, there would be no plugins.

I’m hoping you’ll follow me along into this next chapter.

spktra