Terms & Conditions

TayPE End User Licence Agreement · Revision 2026-10-09

The short version

This is a plain-English guide to the licence. The full EULA below is the agreement that applies.

You can

  • Use TayPE to make records, mixes, demos, edits, and other audio work.
  • Use a Personal licence for your own music, your band, your writing, production, and artist projects — including releasing, selling, licensing, or earning money from that work.
  • Use a Commercial licence for paid client work, work-for-hire, paid production services, studios, businesses, labels, and organisations.
  • Move from Personal to Commercial if your use changes.

Do not

  • Do not use a Personal licence for client work, work-for-hire, paid production services, or work carried out for a business or organisation.
  • Do not assume TayPE is guaranteed to be perfect.
  • Do not skip backups, exports, or session checks.
  • Do not use a third-party plug-in unless its developer currently supports the product and version for your installed major operating-system version, processor architecture, and VST3 format.

The risk bit

  • TayPE is provided as-is.
  • We do not promise it will be error-free, uninterrupted, secure, or suitable for your setup.
  • If TayPE loses work, corrupts data, crashes, misbehaves, or disappoints you, that risk stays with you.
  • A plug-in appearing in TayPE, passing a scan, loading successfully, or having worked before is not certification that it is compatible.
  • Meeting the plug-in requirements does not make a third-party plug-in part of TayPE or give it any TayPE warranty or support. You still use it at your own risk.

Full EULA

TayPE is licensed, not sold. By installing, opening, or using TayPE, you are accepting this agreement.

What you can do

Use TayPE on the machines and in the ways allowed by your licence tier. You may make records, mixes, edits, demos, and other audio works with it.

Licence tiers

A Personal licence is for individual musicians, bands, writers, producers, and artist projects using TayPE for their own music and creative work. It includes releasing, selling, licensing, and earning money from that work.

A Commercial licence is required when TayPE is used for paid client work, work-for-hire, paid production services, or on behalf of a business, organisation, studio, label, or production company. It is not required merely because you release, sell, license, or earn money from your own music.

If your use moves from making your own work to client, work-for-hire, or organisation use, you must move to the Commercial licence tier before continuing that use.

Demo

Without a licence, TayPE is a fully functional demo for 90 days from its first launch on a Mac. After that, exporting audio (master and stems: Print Mix, Print Loop, Print Marker Ranges and Bounce External) requires a licence. Saving sessions, recording and editing are never blocked.

What you cannot claim

TayPE is provided "as is". No warranty whatsoever is provided. There is no promise that TayPE is error-free, uninterrupted, secure, or suitable for any particular studio, session, system, or workflow.

There is no guarantee of fitness for any purpose. If TayPE loses work, corrupts data, misbehaves, crashes, or fails to meet your expectations, that risk stays with you.

Risk

Use of TayPE is entirely at your own risk. You are responsible for backups, exports, session checks, compatibility checks, and any decisions you make while using the software.

Liability

To the fullest extent allowed by law, Ruminant Audio Works is not liable for any loss, damage, cost, claim, or consequence arising from your use of TayPE or your inability to use it.

Third-party plug-ins and software

Third-party plug-ins are supplied and controlled by their developers, not by Ruminant Audio Works. To be used within TayPE's supported operating environment, a third-party plug-in must be a product and version that its developer currently identifies as compatible with the installed major operating-system version, processor architecture, and VST3 format. It must not be designated legacy, obsolete, end-of-life, or unsupported for that environment. These requirements also apply to any wrapper, bridge, runtime, licensing service, or other dependency supplied with the plug-in.

You are responsible for checking and maintaining these requirements. A plug-in appearing in TayPE's catalogue, passing a scan, loading successfully, or having worked previously does not mean that Ruminant Audio Works has tested, approved, certified, or warranted it.

Meeting these requirements only determines whether the plug-in is eligible for use within TayPE's supported operating environment. It does not make the plug-in part of TayPE or create any warranty, representation, certification, or approval by Ruminant Audio Works. Third-party plug-ins remain third-party software and are used at your own risk whether or not they meet these requirements.

Using a plug-in that does not meet these requirements does not terminate your TayPE licence. That plug-in is outside TayPE's supported operating environment and you use it at your own risk.

Ruminant Audio Works does not undertake to test, support, investigate, diagnose, repair, or work around third-party software. TayPE may refuse, disable, bypass, or exclude a plug-in that does not meet these requirements or that crashes, hangs, misses processing deadlines, corrupts state, or materially impairs system operation. Third-party software remains subject to its developer's terms.

Nothing in this section affects statutory rights that cannot lawfully be excluded or restricted.

Updates

TayPE may change over time. New builds may alter features, fix bugs, introduce new bugs, or change compatibility. This agreement applies to those builds unless a later version of the agreement replaces it.