WavRead 1.4.4 — Capture from your DAW
Everything since 1.4.0. The headline is that WavRead can now read a session straight out of your DAW.
Capture from your DAW
WavRead Bridge is a new AU and VST3 plugin. It passes audio through untouched, records what goes past, and hands the files to WavRead — no exporting.
| Where you put it | What you get |
|---|---|
| Stereo Out, set to Master | the finished mix, analysed as an ordinary track |
| One per track or bus, set to Stem | a stem set — per-part measurements, arrangement grid, band attribution |
| Both together | a stem set whose mix is the real master, master-bus processing included |
Stems cannot come from the master bus: by that insert the audio has already been summed. Busses are the practical middle ground — five instances, not forty.
Arm all arms every instance in the session at once. The arming is cleared when a take is handed over, so the next transport roll never records by itself. A capture panel on the Analyze page shows which instances have joined, what each captured, and links to the document the take became.
What the master bus adds
Capture the master and the parts and WavRead holds the same performance twice — before and after the master bus. The difference is measurable, so reverb and delay are measured rather than guessed:
- Repeats — delay times in milliseconds, with the note value they land on against the detected tempo
- Tail — how long what the master adds takes to decay (Schroeder energy decay, T20 fit), measured in a gap where the parts have stopped. No gap, no claim
- Tone change through the bus, per band, and how much of the master's energy is not in the parts at all
Reverb correlates with its own source, music repeats by itself, and a feedback delay lands again at twice its time. All three are ruled out before a number is printed — the phase transform separates a discrete repeat from a diffuse tail, and the parts are correlated against themselves so their own period is never reported as an effect.
Every part on the page
Each stem is now measured for peak, true peak and clipping across its real channels, so a track that arrived already clipped is visible — and the Feedback Report names the part rather than the mix. The per-band balance measured for each part is now printed too, and the document states which mix its whole-track numbers describe.
Instructions, and an update button
How to use WavRead is now a page in the app, and in the menu bar.
Update now installs a release: the disk image is downloaded, checked against the SHA-256 in these notes, and the app inside is confirmed to carry the version it claims before anything is replaced. The current app is moved aside first and put back if the swap fails. Nothing installs unless you press the button.
Also
- Choose which drive the library lives on — move it, or start fresh there
- Settings names the audio output device macOS is using, with a shortcut to change it
WavRead-1.4.4.dmg — 236M
SHA-256: 293f469afc7e55616d54b53bb285bdff020bf87b769c93d3be1f2009ce39c3f2
Unsigned: on first launch, right-click the app and choose Open. Analysis runs entirely on your machine; nothing is uploaded and there is no account.