Two Different Things, Often Confused

MIDI Lab personalizes to how you actually play—but "personalizes" can sound like "shares," and those are not the same thing here. There are two separate systems, and only one of them is ever optional.

Your Digital Twin: Always Private

Every account has a digital twin that learns your style from your own playing—your prompts, your evolves, the choices you make while jamming. It's what lets the AI get more personalized to you over time. This is always private. Your twin, and your actual recordings, are yours. That never changes, no matter what you choose about the second system below.

Teaching the Hive: A Separate, Optional Layer

Teaching the hive is different. It's an aggregate layer: your playing contributes to anonymous averages—never your actual recordings, never anything traceable back to you—so everyone's starting point on MIDI Lab improves over time. Think of it as one voice in a very large chorus, not a recording of your voice.

Every account starts out teaching the hive at signup. If you'd rather not contribute, Studio subscribers can turn it off anytime from Data Sharing in the account menu—your twin stays exactly as private either way; the toggle only controls whether your aggregates reach the hive.

Why It's Structured This Way

Two systems, two different jobs. The twin is about you—it makes MIDI Lab feel like it actually knows how you play. The hive is about the product—it's how MIDI Lab's starting points get better for every producer, including brand-new ones who haven't played a note yet. Keeping them structurally separate means opting out of one never touches the other.

Managing Your Settings

Go to your account menu → Data Sharing to see your current status and, on Studio, toggle it off. Free, Maker, and Pro accounts can see their status, but managing it is a Studio-plan feature.

Questions about what specifically is or isn't shared? See our Privacy Policy or the FAQ.