TypeBeatHouse exists so beatmakers stay in the DAW, not inside a chain of design tools.
Who’s behind this
Manuel Tardivo is the founder and CEO of SNOW INCH S.L., the company behind TypeBeatHouse and CoverCraft. I care about music production the same way you do — and I’ve spent real time next to producers to understand what actually slows them down.
How CoverCraft started
For years I’ve worked closely with DISA — a producer with about eight years in the type beat space. I watched how he shipped, what repeated between sessions, and what quietly ate the hours that could have gone into new beats and monetisation.
One bottleneck stood out: YouTube visuals. Organic traffic to BeatStars (and similar) depends on a steady rhythm of uploads, and every upload needs a solid frame — not a throwaway thumbnail.
The workflow we kept seeing looked like this:
- Open Pinterest, hunt for inspiration, pick an image, download it
- Move to Canva to fit the YouTube layout, add the logo, export a still
- Jump into After Effects: import the still, drop in the beat, layer “channel” polish (dust, scratches, tape-style treatments, and similar)
- Export the video, then upload to YouTube
It’s a lot of context switching. It’s honest work — but it’s not music work. Every minute there is a minute not spent on the catalog, placements, or the next loop.
Built together, iteration by iteration
We attacked it together — producer language on one side, product and engineering on the other. We shipped a first version, tore it apart, and rebuilt it many times: DISA proposed changes, I folded them in, we tested against real upload days. We didn’t stop until the flow felt obvious for someone who only cares about the outcome: a clean, channel-ready visual, fast.
That’s CoverCraft today: a native desktop app for Windows and macOS that keeps the loop tight — media, beat, export — with defaults already aimed at YouTube-ready output.
On DISA’s machine, the happy path is on the order of seconds per video (pick visual / clip, pick the beat, export). When batches pile up, parallel exports (up to eight at a time) claw back even more clock time across a session.
We’re independent: one-time licensing, no subscription treadmill, and docs that read like a human wrote them — including straight talk about Gatekeeper and SmartScreen when the OS asks extra questions.
Talk to us
CoverCraft gets better when real upload schedules steer the roadmap. If you have a feature idea, a workflow tweak, or a sharp quality-of-life suggestion, send it over — we read Instagram DMs on @typebeathouse.
For installs and security prompts, start with the installation guides. For shorter notes and tutorials, see the blog.