DS Soft について About DS Soft

We start with the "I wish I had this" moments we experience in our own practice and creative work.
Driven by a deep curiosity for music, our tools can sometimes become highly niche and specialized, but we hope they bring new insights and inspiration to fellow music lovers.

We are dedicated to addressing niche needs and solving daily inconveniences that mainstream apps often overlook.
While modern designs tend to hide advanced settings under the guise of "simplicity" or "auto-optimization," we avoid hardcoding parameters and instead leave them open for users to customize. We strive to balance intuitive ease-of-use for beginners with the freedom for advanced users to fully customize their experience.

We process all sensitive files, such as audio and video, entirely on your local device without ever uploading them to a remote server.
While processing speeds may vary depending on your device's performance, this approach completely eliminates the risk of external data leaks, ensuring your privacy is fully protected at all times.

Our tool-based apps prioritize the experience of "pure discovery" through the manipulation of parameters and logic, which may make them appear understated at first glance. This is a deliberate choice — one that conserves development resources, reduces device load, and allows users to perceive parameter changes without unnecessary distractions.
We hope that adjusting these settings inspires users to think, "What if I change this? Wouldn't it be more interesting or useful?" and sparks a cycle of creative ideas. Indeed, our own development process is built upon this very cycle of trial, error, and discovery.

Leveraging our size, we try to respond quickly to ideas and feedback from our users.
Many of our features—such as the phase vocoder implementation and track separation in Pitch Tempo Changer, or the sleep timer in Pink Noize Generator—were developed directly in response to user suggestions.

None of our apps display popups asking you to rate or review them. We believe these prompts disrupt the pure user experience (UX) and distort the fairness of app store ratings.
For instance, by targeting only highly active users (e.g., displaying a prompt only after five days of continuous use), marketing tactics can easily filter ratings and inflate scores, overshadowing the actual quality of the app.
Every review we receive comes from users who genuinely felt inspired to return to the app store on their own initiative to leave a rating or comment. We believe these voluntary voices are infinitely more valuable than prompts driven by popups, and they serve as our only true guide.