Effective Date: February 17, 2026

Last Updated: November 5, 2026

This page also exists in French (version française). In France, the French version prevails.

Changes on November 5, 2026: these Terms now cover Sample Kit Builder and our sound content (introduction and sections 2, 4.4, 5 and 6, with a new section 6.4 on sounds from other sources), and set out more of your rights: your license is no longer described as revocable and ends only in the cases of section 11.3, the rights the law gives you to study and decompile software are kept (6.2), honest reviews are never restricted (8), a sound pack is refunded without a reason only until you download it (4.5), the legal guarantee of conformity is described in full (9), and a clause found unfair is set aside rather than rewritten (15). Nothing was taken away from a license you already hold.

Changes on November 1, 2026: sections 9, 10, 13 and 14 now spell out your rights as a consumer (legal guarantees, liability, courts, changes to these Terms), and these Terms now also exist in French. Nothing was taken away from a license you already hold.

Welcome to UB DSP. These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the website ubdsp.com (the "Website"), our software, meaning our audio plugins and our applications such as Sample Kit Builder (the "Software"), our sound content (the "Sounds"; the Software and the Sounds together, the "Products"), your user account (the "Account"), and all related services (collectively, the "Services") operated by UB DSP ("we," "us," or "our").

UB DSP is a trade name of Benoit Scarwell EI, a sole proprietorship (entreprise individuelle) based in France.

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing our Website, creating an Account, purchasing a Product, or using any of our Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use our Services.

We recommend that you also review our Privacy Policy and Refund Policy, which form part of your agreement with us.

2. Description of Services

UB DSP develops and distributes audio plugins for digital audio workstations (DAWs), desktop applications and sound content. Our Services include:

3. User Accounts

3.1 Registration

To purchase Products or access certain features, you must create an Account by providing your name and email address. Accounts have no password: you sign in with a single-use link sent to your email address, or with Google Sign-In. You must provide accurate and complete information during registration and keep your Account information up to date.

3.2 Account Security

Because signing in relies on a link sent to your email address, access to your Account is only as secure as access to that mailbox. You are responsible for keeping your email account secure and for not forwarding sign-in links to anyone else. You agree to notify us immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of your Account. We are not liable for any loss arising from unauthorized access to your Account where such access results from your failure to safeguard your email account or your sign-in links.

3.3 Account Restrictions

You must be at least 16 years of age to create an Account. Each person may maintain only one Account. Accounts are non-transferable.

4. Purchases and Payments

4.1 Merchant of Record

All purchases are processed by Paddle.com, which acts as our Merchant of Record. When you make a purchase, you are buying from Paddle, who then remits payment to us. Paddle handles all payment processing, currency conversion, VAT/tax collection, invoicing, and compliance with local tax regulations.

4.2 Paddle's Terms

By completing a purchase, you also agree to Paddle's Terms of Service and Paddle's Privacy Policy as they relate to payment processing. We are not responsible for Paddle's handling of your payment information.

4.3 Pricing

All prices are listed on our Website and may be subject to applicable taxes as determined by Paddle. We reserve the right to change pricing at any time, but price changes will not affect orders that have already been completed.

4.4 Free Trial

Our Software is available as a free, unlimited trial. In our plugins, the only limitation is a brief periodic silence (2 seconds every 40 seconds) to prevent production use. In Sample Kit Builder, the only limitation is that an export writes the first 4 filled pads of a kit. Sounds provided with a trial are licensed exactly as they are to buyers. We strongly encourage you to evaluate the trial version before purchasing.

4.5 Refunds

All purchases come with a 30-day money-back guarantee. You may request a full refund within 30 days of your purchase date, for any reason, except for a sound pack you have already downloaded. Full details are available in our Refund Policy.

5. License Terms

This section covers our Software. Sounds are licensed under the UB DSP Sound License (see Section 6.2).

5.1 License Grant

Upon purchasing Software, you are granted a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the compiled version of the Software, subject to these Terms. It ends only in the cases described in Section 11.3.

5.2 Activation Limits

Each license permits activation on up to three (3) machines that you own or control. If you need additional activations, please contact us.

5.3 Offline Licensing

Our license system uses RSA-signed .ubkeyfile license files. Licenses work entirely offline: the keyfile is checked on your computer, with no activation server, and the plugins never need an internet connection to work. When their window opens they check for updates, which you can switch off in the About dialog, and anonymous telemetry stays off unless you turn it on.

5.4 License Restrictions

You may not:

6. Proprietary License

6.1 Ownership

All Products, including the source code, compiled binaries, algorithms and documentation of our Software, and our Sounds, are the proprietary property of Benoit Scarwell EI (trading as UB DSP) and are protected by copyright and intellectual property laws.

6.2 License Grant

Purchasing Software grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use its compiled binary on your own computers, as described in Section 5. No rights to the source code are granted. You may not decompile, disassemble, reverse-engineer, or create derivative works from any Software, except where the law allows it: as the lawful user, you may make a back-up copy, observe, study and test how the Software works, and decompile it where that is indispensable to make independently created software work with it (Article L.122-6-1 of the French Intellectual Property Code). Nothing in these Terms limits those rights.

Sounds are licensed under the UB DSP Sound License, which lets you use them in your own works.

6.3 Third-Party Components

Our plugins are built with the JUCE framework under a commercial license. JUCE is a trademark of Raw Material Software Limited. The use of JUCE does not grant you any additional rights beyond those described in these Terms. Sample Kit Builder lists the open-source components it includes, and their licenses, under Settings › Third-party licences.

6.4 Sounds You Use With Our Software

Sample Kit Builder works with sound files that you choose. We grant no rights in sounds that are not ours. You are responsible for holding the rights needed to load, edit and export them. The kits you export are meant for your own instruments: sharing a kit made of sounds from others can infringe the rights of their owners, and most sample licenses forbid it.

7. Intellectual Property

The UB DSP name, logo, branding, website design, and all associated trademarks are the intellectual property of Benoit Scarwell EI (trading as UB DSP). You may not use our trademarks, trade names, or branding without prior written permission, except as necessary to refer to our Products in a factual and non-misleading manner.

Audio demos, marketing copy, documentation, and other non-code content on the Website are the property of UB DSP and are protected by copyright law unless otherwise stated.

8. Prohibited Use

You agree not to:

None of this restricts honest reviews or criticism of our Products, which are always welcome.

9. Disclaimers

Our Services and Products are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that our Services will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components. We do not guarantee compatibility with all DAWs, operating systems, or hardware configurations, although we strive to support the platforms listed on our Website.

If you are a consumer, the guarantees the law gives you apply, including, in the European Union, the legal guarantee of conformity of digital content and services, and nothing in this section limits or excludes them.

Legal guarantee of conformity. If a Product does not work as described, contact us first: we bring it into conformity, for example with a fix or an update, free of charge. If we cannot, or do not do so without undue delay, you are entitled to a price reduction or a full refund, which Paddle pays as the seller. French law requires our terms to include the notice below (Article D.211-3 of the French Consumer Code). This is a translation; the French text in the French version of these Terms prevails.

You have two years from the supply of the digital content or digital service to obtain the application of the legal guarantee of conformity if a lack of conformity appears. For one year from the date of supply, you only need to establish that the lack of conformity exists, not when it appeared.

The legal guarantee of conformity entails the obligation to supply all the updates needed to keep the digital content or digital service in conformity.

The legal guarantee of conformity entitles you to have the digital content or digital service brought into conformity without undue delay following your request, free of charge and without significant inconvenience to you.

You may obtain a price reduction while keeping the digital content or digital service, or end the contract and obtain a full refund in exchange for giving up the digital content or digital service, if:

1° The professional refuses to bring the digital content or digital service into conformity;
2° Bringing the digital content or digital service into conformity is unjustifiably delayed;
3° The digital content or digital service cannot be brought into conformity without costs imposed on you;
4° Bringing the digital content or digital service into conformity causes you significant inconvenience;
5° The lack of conformity of the digital content or digital service persists despite the professional's unsuccessful attempt to bring it into conformity.

You are also entitled to a price reduction or to end the contract where the lack of conformity is so serious that an immediate price reduction or ending of the contract is justified. You then do not have to ask first for the digital content or digital service to be brought into conformity.

Where the lack of conformity is minor, you are entitled to cancel the contract only if the contract does not provide for the payment of a price.

Any period during which the digital content or digital service is unavailable while it is being brought back into conformity suspends the guarantee period that remained, until the digital content or digital service is supplied in conformity again.

The rights above result from Articles L.224-25-1 to L.224-25-31 of the French Consumer Code.

A professional who in bad faith obstructs the application of the legal guarantee of conformity is liable to a civil fine of up to 300,000 euros, which may be raised to 10% of average annual turnover (Article L.242-18-1 of the French Consumer Code).

You also benefit from the legal guarantee against hidden defects under Articles 1641 to 1649 of the French Civil Code, for two years from the discovery of the defect. This guarantee entitles you to a price reduction if you keep the digital content or digital service, or to a full refund in exchange for giving it up.

10. Limitation of Liability

If you are a consumer, nothing in these Terms limits or excludes our liability to you.

If you are not a consumer, UB DSP and its operator shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including but not limited to loss of profits, data, or goodwill, arising out of or in connection with your use of (or inability to use) our Services or Products, and our total aggregate liability for any claim arising from or related to these Terms or our Services shall not exceed the amount you paid to us for the specific Product giving rise to the claim in the twelve (12) months preceding the claim.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including liability for fraud, gross negligence, or fraudulent misrepresentation.

11. Termination

11.1 By You

You may close your Account at any time from your account page or by contacting us. Upon termination, we will delete your personal data in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

11.2 By Us

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your Account and access to our Services if you violate these Terms, engage in fraudulent activity, or abuse the refund process. We will provide reasonable notice before termination where possible, unless immediate action is required to protect the integrity of our Services or other users.

11.3 Effect of Termination

A license for our Software ends when its purchase is refunded or charged back (see our Refund Policy), or when we terminate your Account under Section 11.2 because you shared, sold or redistributed your license file or circumvented the license system. In every other case, including when you close your Account yourself, the licenses you bought stay valid: your license files keep working, although you can no longer download them from a closed Account, so keep a copy. Sounds follow the end-of-license rules of the UB DSP Sound License. Sections of these Terms that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including but not limited to intellectual property provisions, disclaimers, limitation of liability, and governing law.

12. Your Privacy and GDPR Rights

We are committed to protecting your privacy and complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable privacy laws. For full details on what data we collect, how we use it, and your rights, please refer to our Privacy Policy.

As a summary, you have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict processing of, and port your personal data, as well as the right to object to processing and withdraw consent. You can exercise these rights by contacting us.

13. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of France, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory consumer protection rules of the country where you live, and nothing in these Terms affects your statutory rights as a consumer. You may bring proceedings before the courts of the place where you live or before the courts of Bayonne, France, and we may bring proceedings against you only before the courts of the place where you live.

If you are not a consumer, any disputes arising from or relating to these Terms or our Services shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in Bayonne, France.

14. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time to reflect changes in our Services, legal requirements, or business practices. When we make material changes, we will:

A change never reduces the rights of a license you already hold, and never applies to a purchase made before it, unless you agree to it. If you do not agree to updated Terms, you may stop using our Services and request Account deletion; the licenses you already hold stay governed by the Terms in force when you obtained them.

15. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, that provision is set aside, and the remaining provisions continue in full force and effect. If you are not a consumer, the provision is instead modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it valid and enforceable, where that is possible.

16. Affiliate Program

16.1 Enrollment

The UB DSP Affiliate Program is available by invitation only. We may grant or revoke affiliate status at our sole discretion. Participation in the program does not create an employment, partnership, or agency relationship between you and UB DSP.

16.2 Referral Tracking

Affiliates receive a unique referral code. Referrals are tracked via a server-side session when a visitor accesses our Website with your referral code in the URL. Attribution follows a last-click model: if a visitor clicks multiple affiliate links, the most recent referral code is used.

16.3 Commissions

Commissions are calculated as a percentage of the net revenue (after payment processor fees) from qualifying purchases attributed to your referral code. The default commission rate is 20%, but may be adjusted per affiliate at our discretion. Commissions are subject to the following conditions:

16.4 Payouts

Payouts are processed via PayPal. To request a payout, you must:

Payouts are sent via PayPal "Goods & Services." PayPal transaction fees are deducted from the payout amount. We process payout requests manually; processing time may vary but we aim to complete payouts within 7 business days of your request.

16.5 Prohibited Conduct

As an affiliate, you agree not to:

16.6 Suspension and Termination

We may suspend or terminate your participation in the Affiliate Program at any time and for any reason, including but not limited to violation of these Terms or suspected fraudulent activity. Upon termination:

16.7 Taxes and Invoicing

Commissions paid under the Affiliate Program are gross of any taxes. You are solely responsible for:

Invoicing: Where the laws of your jurisdiction require you to issue an invoice for commercial services rendered (this includes, without limitation, affiliates established in France and most other European Union member states acting as a business or as self-employed individuals), you must provide UB DSP with a valid invoice corresponding to the requested payout amount before the payout will be processed. The invoice must comply with the legal requirements of your jurisdiction (including, where applicable, your tax identification number, the correct VAT treatment, and any mandatory legal mentions such as "TVA non applicable, art. 293 B du CGI" for French micro-entrepreneurs not subject to VAT, or reverse-charge mentions for intra-EU B2B services).

UB DSP reserves the right to delay or withhold any payout until a valid invoice has been received where one is legally required. UB DSP will not provide tax or accounting advice and recommends that you consult a qualified professional regarding your tax obligations.

You represent and warrant that the tax and invoicing information you provide is accurate, and you agree to indemnify UB DSP against any claim, penalty, or liability arising from your failure to comply with this Section 16.7.

17. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and Refund Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and UB DSP regarding your use of our Services, and supersede all prior agreements, communications, and understandings, whether written or oral.

18. Contact Us

If you have any questions about these Terms of Service, please contact us: