Inspiration
Meloscene was built by a working musician who needed it to exist. Chad Gerber is a Gibson-endorsed, platinum-selling artist and inventor. When the pandemic canceled his 2020 tour schedule, including Lollapalooza Brazil, Tomorrowland, and European dates, the problem was not stages. It was the room: the place where musicians stand face to face and make music together in real time. Encouraged by Gibson during their MIDI project discussions, he started building the tool he wanted to use himself. That became Meloscene, founded in 2020.
What Meloscene is
Meloscene is a mixed reality studio platform that lets musicians sync and create in real time using their DAW, connect real instruments into VR/AR headsets wirelessly through a personal PC, and collaborate face to face in virtual studios with lossless audio and cross-DAW compatibility. It has been live on the Meta Horizon Store as Meloscene Beta since April 23, 2025, for Quest 2, Quest Pro, Quest 3, and Quest 3S, with mixed reality support and multiplayer built in from the start. The point was never a solo toy. The point is other people in the room with you, playing real gear, with audio that does not fall apart.
Gerber also invented SceneKey, Meloscene's hardware module for bringing real instruments into the platform (US patent application 17/399,331, filed 2021). SceneKey was featured by BBC Click, won a 2023 Muse Design Award (Gold, Product Design), and received a 2023 Good Design Award. Meloscene demonstrated it at CES 2023 in Eureka Park.
How we built it
Meloscene is an original platform built by the Meloscene team for Meta VR devices: a headset app and the Meloscene Portal for personal computers, with real-time session sync and lossless audio routing that works across DAWs. Development has run through thirteen builds. The current build is shaped around the Quest 3 and Quest 3S, with a full Meta Avatars integration replacing the app's original custom avatars and upgraded hand tracking driving direct interaction with shared screens and objects.
Future plans
The Portal is available for Mac today, with a Windows version in development. The roadmap is the same idea at every step: shorten the distance between picking up an instrument and playing with someone. Winning would fund the rebuild that finishes several systems, fixes the PC Portal latency, and takes Meloscene out of beta.
Team: Chad Gerber (founder, developer, Representative) and Julie Gerber (co-founder).
