Planar
Orbit, alpha

Orbit — a local-first organizer for producers on macOS

Every version,
and why it happened.

Orbit sits over the session folders you already use and keeps the decision behind every bounce. Open a session months later and the reason for the last call is still there, in your words.

See what it does

In a small alpha on macOS. Access is by hand; a way to ask arrives with the domain.

late_again/
4 versions, 1 branchillustrative session
  1. late_again_v1.wav2026-02-03 23:41

    first bounce. rough, vocal buried, drums fine.

  2. late_again_v2.wav2026-02-04 00:12

    vocal +1.5 dB, tamed 2–4k on the bus.

  3. late_again_v3_altdrums.wav2026-02-04 00:58

    swapped the kit. too busy — kept for reference, not the direction.

    kept for reference
  4. late_again_v4.wav2026-03-14 01:12

    back on v2 drums. kick low-mid at 250 down 2 dB. this is the one.

    current

You know this folder.

bouncesillustrative session
~/Music/sessions/late_again/bounces
  • bounces copyFeb 12, 2026 at 1:20 AM--Folder
  • final_v3_REAL_final_2.wavFeb 12, 2026 at 1:14 AM39 MBWaveform audio
  • late again v2 FINAL FINAL.wavFeb 4, 2026 at 12:58 AM38.9 MBWaveform audio
  • Late Again (Master) 2.mp3Mar 15, 2026 at 2:03 AM8.4 MBMP3 audio
  • late_again.logicxMar 14, 2026 at 1:12 AM1.21 GBLogic Pro project
  • late_again.wavJan 28, 2026 at 11:41 PM38.2 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again 2.wavJan 28, 2026 at 11:52 PM38.2 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_acapella.wavFeb 14, 2026 at 12:31 AM12.1 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_bounce.wavJan 30, 2026 at 12:09 AM38.4 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_bounce_2.wavJan 30, 2026 at 12:44 AM38.4 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_bounce_LOUD.wavJan 31, 2026 at 1:02 AM38.4 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_final.wavFeb 3, 2026 at 11:41 PM38.9 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_final_v2.wavFeb 4, 2026 at 12:12 AM38.9 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_FINAL_v2_fix.wavFeb 4, 2026 at 12:31 AM38.9 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_final_v3.wavFeb 11, 2026 at 11:58 PM39 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_final_v3_ALT.wavFeb 12, 2026 at 12:40 AM39 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_final_v3_ALT_2.wavFeb 12, 2026 at 12:52 AM39 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_final_v3_vocal_up.wavFeb 13, 2026 at 12:15 AM39 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_final_v3_vocal_up_2.wavFeb 13, 2026 at 12:22 AM39 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_inst.wavFeb 13, 2026 at 12:40 AM39 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_inst_2.wavFeb 14, 2026 at 12:04 AM39 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_MASTER.wavMar 14, 2026 at 1:12 AM39.1 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_MASTER_2.wavMar 14, 2026 at 1:33 AM39.1 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_MASTER_2_-1dB.wavMar 14, 2026 at 1:41 AM39.1 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_MASTER_2_-1dB_v2.wavMar 15, 2026 at 12:10 AM39.1 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_MASTER_streaming.wavMar 15, 2026 at 12:26 AM39.1 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_MASTER_streaming_2.wavMar 15, 2026 at 12:31 AM39.1 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_MASTER_vinyl.wavMar 16, 2026 at 12:02 AM39.1 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_ref_mix.wavFeb 2, 2026 at 11:20 PM38.7 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_ref_mix_2.wavFeb 2, 2026 at 11:34 PM38.7 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_rough.wavJan 27, 2026 at 10:58 PM38 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_rough_2.wavJan 27, 2026 at 11:15 PM38 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_rough_3.wavJan 27, 2026 at 11:40 PM38 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_stems.zipFeb 15, 2026 at 1:02 AM412 MBZIP archive
  • late_again_v1.wavFeb 3, 2026 at 11:41 PM38.9 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_v2.wavFeb 4, 2026 at 12:12 AM38.9 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_v3_altdrums.wavFeb 4, 2026 at 12:58 AM38.9 MBWaveform audio
  • late_again_v4.wavMar 14, 2026 at 1:12 AM39.1 MBWaveform audio
  • notes.txtFeb 12, 2026 at 1:16 AM2 KBPlain text
  • oldJan 26, 2026 at 9:12 PM--Folder
  • Screenshot 2026-02-12 at 1.14.32 AM.pngFeb 12, 2026 at 1:14 AM1.8 MBPNG image
  • send_this_one.wavMar 15, 2026 at 2:01 AM39.1 MBWaveform audio
  • stemsFeb 15, 2026 at 12:58 AM--Folder
  • Untitled folderMar 15, 2026 at 2:05 AM--Folder
44 items, 214.6 GB available

Forty-four things in the folder, ten of them called final. The one you liked has Tuesday’s vocal and the drums from the week before, and nothing in the name says so.

So you open three and A/B them by ear. Twenty minutes go, and the headspace you sat down with goes with them. Worse, you start second-guessing a call you made on purpose a month ago, at one in the morning, for a reason that was good at the time and is now nowhere.

The files were never the problem. The reason for each one is what got lost.

It keeps the shape of the work — every version, and why.

A song lives in a Space. Point Orbit at the folder you already work in and it organizes what’s there — with your approval, never on its own — into versions you can see, name, and write a line under. Nothing is renamed, moved, or uploaded without you.

Canvas — versions as a map
Orbit alpha, August 2026
Orbit’s Canvas for the Space “Love, For Real”: version nodes named STEMS, GUITAR, KEYS and SYNTHS joined by curved lines, STEMS pinned with three branches; on the right, the selected version SYNTHS with fields for tags, description, files, choices, storage and audio.

Versions as a map, not a list

Every version is a node; branches stay on the Canvas. Pin the ones you place by hand, let the rest auto-place. Select a version and it takes a description, tags, the files that make it up, the choices behind it, and where those files actually live.

Activity — what happened in the Space
Orbit alpha, August 2026
Orbit’s Activity view for “Love, For Real”: a list of what happened, newest first — Path 3 renamed to SYNTHS, Path 2 to KEYS, Path 1 to GUITAR and STEMS, and a file move on Jul 11; on the right, the Space’s contents: 5 versions, 1 file, 0 Library links.

A record of what happened

Versions, decisions, and storage moves, newest first — the trail you re-enter months later to find out where you were and why. Renames, moves, and branch choices are written down as they happen, in plain words.

A Library across Spaces

Material you reuse — a sample, a stem, a reference — lives once in the Library and links into any version that uses it, with its source, where it is on disk, and what it’s linked into.

Local-first, and it asks first

Your files stay where they are, on your machine. Orbit proposes where things belong, names, and tags; every plan waits for your approval. macOS, in a small alpha.

What that gives you

The moment the software is built for, in one sentence: I look at the versions, see why each one happened, and make the next decision without second-guessing the last one.

  1. Pick up any session months later and still know where you were, and why.

    The last note is the first thing you see. Not a folder of guesses — the decision you actually made, in your own words.

  2. Keep building on old ideas instead of starting over.

    The sketch from last August is re-enterable, so it gets finished instead of being replaced by a new sketch that starts from zero.

  3. End up with a bigger body of finished work.

    Less time hunting, less patience spent, less second-guessing. The hours go back into the record.

Work that leaves with its story attached.

A finished mix is a file and a history. Today the file goes out and the history stays behind, in a folder only you can read. Orbit keeps that history — the notes, the branches, the order things happened in. The aim is for it to be able to travel with the work, if you ever choose to send it. That part isn’t built yet.

That is the direction, and it is a longer arc than one product: more artists sharing work with the full story behind it, and listeners hearing the work and how it came to be. Not because anyone explains it to them — because it never got separated from the file.

Orbit is the first step and it stays on your machine: your folders, your notes, your call on what goes anywhere. What comes after is being built in the order that keeps that true.

Planar

One name over a small set of tools for musicians.

Each tool is named for the thing it actually does, and they’re being built in the order that keeps a musician’s work theirs — from the folder it lives in to the people it’s for.

  • Organize

    Orbit

    How the work evolved and why. Local-first, on macOS, for producers with heavy session folders.

    Alpha, macOS
  • Learn

    LearnFrom

    Becoming able: practice, criteria, feedback, and evidence of it.

    Live at learnfrom.io
  • Further on

    The rest of the arc

    Making in one place. Choosing who gets what you send. Judging honestly. And the two-way field where the work meets the people it is for. Named here so you know the shape — not promised.

    Not yet

Alpha access.

Orbit is in a small alpha on macOS and access is by hand. There is no form yet, so this site keeps nothing about you at all. What the site keeps, and for how long, is written plainly on the security page.

Alpha access

A way to ask arrives when the site has a domain and an address to write back from.

Until then: no form, no email, nothing collected. Only the words on this page.