DawForge
Orchestral sessions,
amplified.
Built for composers who live inside Cubase. A library that knows your articulations, an editor for your expression maps, and a bridge that drives Cubase in real time.
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Flow · live inside Cubase
Cubase is where the work happens.
Everything else is where it stalls.
DawForge closes the loop.
What you get
Three layers of an orchestral workflow,
finally joined up.
Free and up
Intelligence
A canonical knowledge base of orchestral libraries — every articulation, keyswitch, and CC mapping. Search it, filter it, see it by family.
Studio and up
Authoring
Create and edit expression maps with a real editor. Round-trip XML, download for Cubase, version your work. Five maps on Studio, unlimited on Pro.
Pro only
DAW Controller
Flow turns DawForge into a live cockpit for your Cubase session — real-time articulation switching, Track Archive templates, no context-switching.
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade when you're ready to ship.
Free
Explore the full orchestral knowledge base.
- Browse every library in the KB
- Articulation, keyswitch, and CC details
- Search, filter, orchestral family view
- Read-only access
Studio
For composers ready to build and edit.
- Everything in Free
- Add libraries to your personal library
- Create and edit expression maps
- Up to 5 saved expression maps
- Download maps for Cubase
Pro
Flow live with your Cubase session.
- Everything in Studio
- Unlimited expression maps
- Import Cubase Track Archive templates
- Flow — live bridge that drives Cubase
- Real-time articulation switching
Why DawForge
Not another library spreadsheet.
Other tools stop at “here's what articulations exist.” DawForge keeps going: edit your expression maps, freeze your templates, drive Cubase itself. Built for composers who need the session to move — not the tab.
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New libraries, new features, the Cubase 15 updates — straight to your inbox. No fluff.
Built by a composer · Continuing a line of work
DawForge is the successor to Flow — the orchestral template I built six years ago.
Flow was used by composers around the world, but it lived outside Cubase: starting it, syncing it, keeping it in step with a session — all friction. The engine was wrong for the job.
DawForge is the next chapter. Same obsession with making Cubase feel like an instrument, now rebuilt as a native tool inside the DAW where the music actually happens.
— Marco Di Stefano
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