Short answers. Longer ones are linked.
Yerk is a macOS app that organizes a sample library by how it sounds, keeps versioned backups of DAW projects, and converts FL Studio projects to Ableton Live. It runs on your machine, uploads nothing, and never moves your original files. The questions below are the ones producers ask first.
Yerk is a macOS app for music producers. It organizes a sample library by how the samples sound, keeps hash-verified versioned backups of DAW projects, and converts FL Studio projects into Ableton Live sets. Everything runs on your Mac.
No. The classifier that tags your samples ships inside the app and runs on your machine. Backups go to the destination you choose, whether Dropbox, Google Drive or an external drive, and DAW conversion reads and writes files locally. Yerk has no server that receives your audio.
No. Organizing builds a separate organized library whose folder names carry the tags. Your original files stay exactly where they were, under their original names, so nothing already referenced by a project breaks.
Backups cover Logic Pro, Ableton Live, FL Studio and Pro Tools projects, including bundle-style projects like Logic's .logicx, which are copied so they still open. DAW transfer converts FL Studio to Ableton Live 12 today; Logic Pro, Pro Tools and Cubase are next.
macOS first. Windows is coming later; it is not in the first release.
Yes. Point Yerk at any folder or drive. If macOS has not granted access to a drive, Yerk says so and tells you what it was unable to read rather than silently skipping it.
After copying a project, Yerk compares a checksum of every copied file against the source. A backup only counts once the copies match. Recent versions are kept, so a mistake saved over a project this afternoon can be undone from this morning's copy.
To any folder you choose: a Dropbox or Google Drive folder, or an external drive. Backups run on a schedule, and they run whether or not Yerk is open.
Tracks and their names, patterns as clips, tempo, instruments and sample references, and FL Studio effects mapped to their closest Ableton devices. Where there is no exact equivalent, Yerk picks the nearest device and marks it as an approximation. Third-party plugins must be installed on the Mac that opens the set, as with any Live project. The converter was built from analysis of 558 real FL Studio projects.
No. Yerk is a standalone Mac app. Because it organizes your actual files, the result shows up in Finder and in every DAW's file browser without a plugin being open.
Splice is a library of new sounds to download. Yerk organizes the sounds you already own. Many producers use both; they are not doing the same job.
Pricing will be announced with the public launch. People on the waitlist hear first.
Yerk is in early access with a group of producers now. Join the waitlist for the next round of invites.
More on each piece: sample organization, FL Studio to Ableton, and how Yerk compares.