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What Cantor is

A studio on your own machine, and a phone that plays what it makes.

Cantor makes songs with models that run on a computer you own, and plays them on your phone. Nothing in the cloud writes your music, keeps your library, or hears your prompts.

Two halves

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The node is a small program on your computer, or on any machine you trust. It holds the models, writes the songs, and keeps your library. It runs on Linux and macOS; a GPU makes it fast, and a CPU is enough to start.

The app is a field of every song you have, each drawn from its own recipe, so you know a song by its shape before you read its name. From it you ask for a song, a version of one, a longer one, or one that begins with your own humming.

What sits between them

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Your phone and your node find each other through a relay. The relay only splices bytes: everything between the app and the node is encrypted end to end, so it cannot read a prompt, a title, a lyric, or a note of audio. It does see that two devices are talking, when, and how much.

Where to go next

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