Groovebox Exporter: your whole Circuit Rhythm card in Ableton, in seconds, not hours.

1. Your licence. A personal licence to use Groovebox Exporter on one computer at a time. To move it to another computer, sign out on the first one, or write to me and I'll move it. Don't share your key or your password.
2. Activation. The app needs internet to sign in. After that it works offline, and checks your licence when it's online (when it opens and every half hour), so a refund or a licence I've switched off takes effect then. If the licence server ever closes for good, I'll release an update without the check.
3. Your card. Groovebox Exporter works on a copy of your card on your computer and only writes to the card when you use Send to card. Before every Send to card, make your own backup of the card (copy the whole card into a folder on your computer): the app asks you to confirm it each time. SD cards can fail, be removed or lose power while writing, and that risk stays with the card and the computer it's in.
4. Your samples. You're responsible for having the rights to the samples you export. The app doesn't upload your sessions or samples anywhere.
5. Refunds. 14 days, no questions: write to hello@soundingwild.com with your receipt.
6. Previews. The Windows and Intel Mac versions are previews for testing, provided as they are.
7. Liability. To the extent the law allows, I'm not liable for loss of or damage to data on your SD card or computer, for any loss a backup would have prevented, or for business losses, and my total liability is limited to the price you paid. Nothing here limits liability that the law doesn't allow to be limited, such as for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or fraud, and nothing affects your statutory rights as a consumer.
8. Law. England and Wales, without taking away the consumer protections where you live. Groovebox Exporter is made and sold by Axel Drioli, trading as Axel Wild (United Kingdom), hello@soundingwild.com.

Who: Axel Drioli, trading as Axel Wild (United Kingdom), hello@soundingwild.com. The privacy page for the whole site: axelwild.com/privacy.

When you buy: Gumroad is the seller. It handles your payment and receipt under its own privacy policy, and I see your name, email and order. I don't see your card details. To sign you in, the licence server asks Gumroad's licence check (in the US) whether your receipt key is genuine and not refunded: when you first sign in, and about once a day after that while the app is online.

From the preview form: your name, email, computer, what you use and your note, to choose testers and write to you about the preview. The form checks you're human with a hidden field and, when it's switched on, Cloudflare Turnstile.

From the app: your email, your password (only as a one-way scrambled code: nobody, me included, can read it back), your licence key (to check for refunds with Gumroad), a one-way code made from your computer's hardware id (not the id itself), your computer's name (as set in its settings, so you and I can tell which computer holds the licence), what kind of computer it is, the app version, and when you signed in and last used it. This runs the one-computer licence and stops it being shared.

Feedback from the app: when you press Feedback, your message and its kind, your email, your computer's name and kind, the app version and which screen you were on, so I can reply and fix things.

Why I'm allowed to: the licence and its checks run the contract you made when you bought it or joined the preview; the preview form, so I can do what you asked before giving you a licence; feedback, the human check and the sign-in limits are my legitimate interests in fixing the app and keeping it safe.

Where: the licence, preview and feedback records are kept in an Upstash database (Upstash, Inc.), reached through Vercel, which hosts this site. Gumroad, Upstash and Vercel are US companies: Vercel transfers data under the UK–US data bridge and the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, Gumroad and Upstash under standard contractual clauses. The installers download from GitHub. Nobody else sees your records. No tracking cookies on this page, only a cookieless visit count (Vercel Web Analytics, no personal data); videos load from YouTube only when you press play.

How long: licence records for as long as your licence is used, plus 6 years for tax and contract records; preview records 3 months after the preview ends, or sooner when you ask; feedback until it's dealt with, at most 2 years. You can ask to see, correct or delete what I hold.

Complaints: if you're unhappy with how your data is handled, write to hello@soundingwild.com; I'll acknowledge within 30 days and reply as soon as I can. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, ico.org.uk.

Groovebox Exporter is an app for Mac (Windows in preview) that turns the sessions on a Novation Circuit Rhythm SD card into Ableton Live sets and REAPER projects that play like the device: the same samples, patterns, swing and effects. It also organises the packs and sessions on the card. £39, once.

Open Groovebox Exporter with your Circuit Rhythm SD card (or a copy of it) and export. Each pack becomes a set of scenes, each session a scene of clips on 8 tracks, with Samplers loaded with your own samples and the Circuit's effects already set. No recording each track out through an audio interface.

Only when you press Send to card. It works on a copy on your computer, and before writing it saves what's on the card and checks every file after.

Before each Send to card: back up the whole card to a folder, keep the computer on power, and leave the card in until the app ejects it. The first time, try a spare card.

That's the aim. The Circuit's filters, distortion, sidechain, delay and reverb were measured on the device and rebuilt with Live's own devices and REAPER plug-ins, and every version is checked against recordings of the Circuit. Hear a difference? Send me the session.

Live 12 Suite (for Sampler, Roar and Hybrid Reverb). The free trial is Suite. Live Standard and Intro don't have those devices.

Yes. Groovebox Exporter works through REAPER in the background: it renders the previews, the mixes and the stems, and measures each beat's loudness for the Live sets. Install it before you start. The free evaluation from reaper.fm is enough, and you never have to open it.

In REAPER: a stereo render and stems of every beat. In Live, every clip holds its notes with their velocities, so you can edit the patterns. Logic Pro export, with stems and MIDI, is coming in an update.

No. It reads Circuit Rhythm sessions only.

Both are in preview. Help test one and get a free licence: use the preview form above.

Internet once to sign in, then it works offline. Your sessions and samples never leave your computer.

In your Gumroad receipt. In the app, click First time?, enter it and choose a password.

One at a time. Sign out on one first, or write to me and I'll move it.

£39 once, updates included, for one computer at a time, with 14 days to change your mind.

Yes. Get a free code on Gumroad and sign in with it. The free version reads your card, reorganises your sessions and packs, and renders a compressed preview of every session to listen to in the app. You can also export one session to Ableton Live or REAPER, once, exactly as the full version makes it. Exporting your whole card, in full quality, any time, is the full version; buying with the same email unlocks it.

I'm Axel Wild, the artist name of Axel Drioli: sound engineer, spatial audio designer and wildlife sound recordist, working in London since 2013, and founder of Sounding Wild.

My sound is on PBS Nature, BBC Springwatch and The Guardian, on UNICEF's The Journey 360 (Cine Golden Eagle Award) and on the Philharmonia Orchestra's touring VR sound stage. For two years I directed one of the most advanced 360° video and audio databases in the world, built for the hearing-aid and noise-cancelling research of 20 international technology companies. I've taught spatial audio at UCL.

I made Groovebox Exporter to play my own field-recorded Circuit Rhythm beats live.

No. It's an independent app by me, not affiliated with or endorsed by Novation or Focusrite.