Frequently Asked Questions

Collaya is your creative partner for songwriting and music production—built to make the entire process more fun, inspired, and collaborative. By analyzing your own sounds, Collaya helps you unlock fresh musical ideas tailored to your unique style and preferences. Whether you're stuck on a section or exploring a new direction, Collaya offers real-time conversation, sound suggestions based on your audio, example melodies, beats, and chord progressions, arrangement guidance, and more.

The more you interact with Collaya, the more it learns to align with your creative vision—like a tireless, supportive collaborator with a sharp musical ear. And your work stays yours: Collaya operates fully on your terms, with your audio fully protected.

So much! Collaya is here to boost your creativity from every angle. Here’s what you can do:

• Upload your work-in-progress songs and have a conversation with Collaya about them. Collaya can instantly identify your song’s key, tempo, and mood, and help you shape your vision through an ongoing creative dialogue.
• Ask Collaya for fresh ideas for new song parts, melodies, beats, arrangements, or lyrics. Want to hear how a melody might sound? Just ask.
• Experiment with your song parts by quickly rearranging them within Collaya, or pull in full songs to explore alternative structures.
• When you’re ready, bounce/export your Collaya project and seamlessly import it into your DAW as a working template, ready for further refinement.

Collaya is all about giving you the tools to turn your creative sparks into something incredible. The more you interact with it, the better it learns to align with your vision.

Kick off your project by uploading any and all sounds from your current song-in-progress—tracks, melodies, beats, harmonies, rough ideas, you name it. The more you share with Collaya, the more it can help shape your vision. Collaya works best when you treat it like a creative conversation. The more you engage, the more powerful and relevant its suggestions will be.

Collaya supports most major audio file formats, including WAV, AIFF, M4A, and MP3. Basically, if you’re making music, Collaya is ready to work with it. If you find your file type isn’t supported, we’d love to know about it. Please shoot us an email feedback@collaya.com.

Collaya is built to be your creative partner, and enhance your process, not replace it. It’s designed to work with your music, your ideas, and your style—never using your work to serve anyone else’s projects. Your music stays yours.

Collaya can suggest melodies, chord structures, harmonies, rhythms, arrangements, and even sound design and production tips based on your input. It’s like having an endless supply of musical inspiration tailored to your sound. Want Collaya to help you with something specific? Just let it know.

Yes! Collaya is designed to work seamlessly alongside your favorite DAW—like Ableton Live, Logic Pro, Bitwig Studio, FL Studio, and others. You can easily drag and drop your own files and folders into Collaya, and anything Collaya creates—whether it's a new idea or a generated example—can be downloaded at any time for use in your DAW.

We’re also actively working on deeper DAW integrations to make the workflow even smoother—coming soon!

Absolutely. Your music is stored securely and stays accessible only through your account. Your sounds are never used to train models for anyone else’s projects. It’s your music, period. While we do utilize third-party tools and services to enhance our platform, your data is anonymized and not used for marketing or commercial purposes. Privacy isn’t just a priority, it’s a non-negotiable commitment.

Yes! You have full creative and legal ownership over the music you make with Collaya. Everything it generates is based on your sounds, ensuring you can use it for anything you want—commercial releases, sync placements, live performances, or whatever else you dream up.

The more feedback you provide, the more Collaya can tailor its suggestions to match your creative vision. Use the thumbs-up or thumbs-down feature to rate responses, and don’t hesitate to reach out if something’s not working as expected. We’re here to help you get the most out of every interaction.

If you encounter an issue with a specific response, use the thumbs-down button to provide immediate feedback. For any other technical problems, reach out to us at feedback@collaya.com. We’re committed to making sure Collaya is a seamless and inspiring part of your creative process.