Catch it the first time.
Hit record and stay in the moment. Cycle passes stack up as takes you can comp later; MIDI laps merge into one part. Pre-roll, count-in and a metronome that stays out of the way.
Record, arrange, mix and master in a studio that stays out of your way. Native plugins, a crash-proof sandbox and an engine written in Rust — wrapped in an interface with nothing extra on it.
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The studio
01
Record
Cycle-record into takes and comp the best of each. Punch in at the locators, count in, and monitor straight through the track.
02
Arrange
Move, split, glue and warp. Audio follows the tempo track, and every edit lands on the grid you choose.
03
Mix
A full console — inserts, sends, groups, VCAs, automation on every parameter, and loudness metering on the master.
Every sound has an envelope. So does every song.
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Shape what you caught.
Warp audio to the grid, fix pitch note by note, pull MIDI out of a melody, or split a finished track into vocals, drums, bass and the rest — on your Mac, no upload.
Hold the whole mix together.
VST3, Audio Unit and CLAP run in a sandbox, so a crashing plugin never takes the session with it. Thirty-plus built-in effects, delay compensation and every core put to work.
Let it go.
Render faster than real time, normalise to your loudness target and export the mix, the stems and the score. Hand off to other studios with AAF and OMF.
Spec sheet
Everything a studio needs.
Nothing it doesn’t.
31
EQ, dynamics, reverb, delay, modulation, drive, pitch and utility — each with its own editor.
3
VST3, Audio Unit and CLAP, scanned and run out of process.
4
Vocals, drums, bass and other, separated by a neural model on your Mac.
7.1
Basic 5.1 and 7.1 buses with a surround panner, plus a control room for cue mixes.
band31
Alongside an 8-band parametric, a dynamic EQ and linear phase.
line16
Plus zero-latency convolution with built-in impulse responses.
6
WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3, OGG and M4A, converted to your session rate on import.
500
Every edit kept in a history panel you can jump around in.
- Engine
- Rust, lock-free real-time thread
- Processing
- Multi-core graph scheduling
- Latency
- Automatic delay compensation
- Plugins
- Sandboxed, crash recovery
- MIDI
- MPE, expression maps, score
- Sync
- MIDI clock, timecode, OSC, video
Plugin sandbox
Plugins crash.
Your session doesn’t.
Every third-party plugin runs in its own helper process. If one falls over, Oxtave restarts it, puts its state back, and the music keeps playing. Go on — break it.
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