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DeadCat is a digital audio workstation for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, designed around Apple's on-device intelligence: your audio, sessions, and conversations with the assistant stay on your device. It's for music and for spoken-word work like podcasts and radio stories. The app is in development and isn't on the App Store yet.

DeadCat also ships tools you can use today: a local MCP server and a terminal command that let an AI assistant operate REAPER in plain language, with every write confirmed against the DAW's own feedback.

This wiki is the user documentation. The repo carries the code, the issues and milestones carry the plan, discussions carry announcements, and releases are the changelog.

The DAW

• The-DAW: the principles, the audiences, and the milestone path.
• MVVM: the model, view model, and view layers the app is built from.
• Privacy-for-Audio-Journalists: how the architecture protects sources and material.
• Use-Cases: what working with DeadCat looks like in practice.

The servers

• Install: build the server, connect an MCP client, and configure REAPER's OSC device.
• Tools: the full tool reference, 25 tools across transport, mix, and navigation.
• How-It-Works: the signal path from tool call to DAW and back.
• Architecture: the modules and the boundaries between them.
• Inside-the-Server: real excerpts from the source, explained.

Reference

• Testing: what the suite proves and how coverage gates a merge.
• Troubleshooting: what to check when a tool call does not do what you expected.
• FAQ: short answers to common questions.
• Ecosystem: every piece of DeadCat and how they fit together.
• The-Name: what a dead cat is, and who Gus is.

Policies

• Privacy-Policy: the full privacy policy.
• Terms-of-Service: the terms that cover the software, releases, and support.