Forking Songs and Projects

Forking in BandLab allows users to work on forkable songs and projects published by other users. This gives artists the opportunity to pick up where the original artist left off.

By default, when you publish a project, it is not immediately forkable. You need to set your projects to Forkable under the Project Settings.

When you set a project to Forkable, you grant other users a private copy of your project to use however they wish. This allows users to build on the song, add to it, change it, and ultimately republish their own version. Enabling forks lets others feature your music in their music and videos, helping it reach more listeners.

Any projects published from your Forkable project will always be attributed to the original project. Published Forked projects will have an Inspired By tag followed by the author's name.

How to make your songs Forkable
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Enable Forking during publishing

  1. In the Studio, click Publish in the upper right
  2. Under Advanced Settings, enable Forkable
  3. Click Publish when done

Enable Forking from the Project Settings

  1. Go to your Library
  2. Click the three-dot button on your project and go to Project Settings
  3. Enable Forkable
  4. Click Update to apply the changes
How to fork another user's song

Songs you can fork are identifiable by the Fork icon . You can find many forkable songs on the Discover page or in your Following Feed.

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  1. Once you've found a forkable project, click on the Fork button
  2. You can choose to either:
    1. Open in Studio to open your copy of the forked song in the Studio
    2. Keep for Later to save the forked song to your Library for later
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