Use Cases

Use cases

What working with DeadCat looks like in practice. Milestone status is on The-DAW: recording works today; mixing is the next milestone; transcription, the assistant, and delivery exports are planned.

Field recording an interview

You sit down with a source, open DeadCat on the phone, and record. The take is filed as a session the moment you stop, and it survives interruptions: a phone call or an alarm ends the take cleanly and keeps everything captured up to that moment. Nothing uploads. Back at the desk, the same session opens on the Mac. When the Transcribe milestone lands, the interview gets an on-device transcript you can search and navigate by what was said.

Cutting a podcast episode

Episode segments live as takes in a session. With Tracks, the host bed, the interview, and the music sit on parallel tracks with volume, pan, mute, and solo. With Deliver, the export is measured against podcast loudness targets, so the file you upload meets the spec instead of guessing at it.

Catching a song idea

A melody shows up; you record it before it leaves. Takes stay organized as sessions, so the idea from the kitchen and the verse from the bus end up in one place. With Tracks, you layer a second part over the first. The assistant, when it arrives, names takes and operates the transport and mixer in plain language, and the creative decisions stay yours.

Driving REAPER with an assistant, today

This one works now. With the Install guide done, an MCP client like Claude Desktop can operate a live REAPER session: start playback, record a take, balance the mix, build a session from files on disk. Every write is confirmed against REAPER's own feedback before it is reported done. The Tools page lists all 25 tools.