Never Miss A Happy Musical Accident Again

Matari Audio has been in touch to tell us about BUFFR 1.0 which they say captures the synth phrase between takes. Here's the story in their own words...

The interesting synth phrase is often the one played while shaping the patch, before anyone presses Record. BUFFR 1.0 keeps both the sound and the controller performance from that moment.

Recover what just happened.
BUFFR is a retrospective multichannel audio and MIDI recorder for DAWs. It keeps up to two hours of recent audio, system audio and MIDI ready to recover, shape and drag back into a project.

CAPTURE YOUR ENTIRE SESSION
Record up to 16 audio channels and 16 MIDI channels.
Capture system audio on macOS, Windows and Linux.
Connect your controller directly to BUFFR, so your MIDI is always captured even when the DAW track is not armed.
Separate performances automatically with independent audio and MIDI Markers.

TURN AUDIO INTO PLAYABLE MIDI
Right-click an audio selection to Convert into MIDI. Channel 1 is for detected Melodies and Channel 2 is for detected Drums.
Convert the full waveform or work through Spectral Grab.
Shift-drag a waveform or spectral selection to export detected MIDI with its captured timing intact.
Recognize chords, note boundaries and rhythm, including extended, altered and inverted harmony.

EDIT THE PERFORMANCE, NOT THE LIFE OUT OF IT
Smart Quantize follows the DAW grid with a Raw, Human and Precision X/Y triangle pad, so you can fine-tune how much you Quantize.
Quantize by Channel, Selection, Marker or All Track.
Handle straight timing, swing, tuplets, mixed subdivisions, polyrhythms, layered voices, ornaments and rolls.
Preserve expressive MPE, CLAP, VST3 and supported MIDI 2.0 per-note pitch, pressure, brightness, pan, modulation and pedals.
Follow Audio Tempo to build the grid from the recording's detected BPM.

FIND, SHAPE AND DRAG
Spectral Grab selects sound by time and frequency.
Center Align balances lopsided audio with true peak-aware Adaptive Phase rotation.
Ride creates an offline gain curve, letting you limit, compress and gain-stage audio without compression artifacts.
Peak and True Peak Normalize measure the completed non-destructive effect chain.
Drag audio, MIDI or spectral selections into supported DAWs and file managers. Audio defaults to 24-bit FLAC, with 24-bit WAV available.

BUILT FOR REAL SESSIONS
Event-driven drag-out supports Windows, macOS, X11, XWayland and native Wayland routes.
Crash recovery and reviewable problem reports help protect long captures.
Activity Log keeps recording, playback, export, drag, MIDI and Offline FX outcomes readable.

BUFFR 1.0.0 is available for macOS, Windows and Linux as CLAP, VST3 and standalone. AU is included on macOS.

Pricing and Availability:
$49 launch price (normally $89). Perpetual license, a one-time 28-day trial, activation on up to three computers, and updates throughout version 1.x.

More information:

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