In the works.

Recording latency compensation

Shifts new takes so they line up with what you heard

MIDI retrospective record

Recovers what you played on the keyboard while not recording

Audio pre-record

Captures up to a minute of audio from before Record was pressed

Audio record modes

Keep history / cycle history + replace / replace

MIDI record modes

New parts, merge, replace; cycle mix, overwrite, keep last, stacked

Auto-quantize while recording

MIDI snaps to the grid as you play

Monitoring modes

Tape-machine style auto monitoring, while armed, while recording

Direct (hardware) monitoring

Lets the audio interface do zero-latency monitoring

Punch locators

Punch in/out points separate from the loop

Record file format

Choose WAV, AIFF or Broadcast WAV and the bit depth

Input and output at different sample rates

Multichannel / surround inputs, input buses

Name and group interface inputs; record 5.1 etc.

Lock record, remaining record time, record from selection

Small safety and convenience tools

Click pattern editor and click track

Custom metronome accents and a dedicated click track

On-screen keyboard

Play and record MIDI from the computer keyboard

Swipe comping

Drag across lanes to choose the best section of each take

Automatic crossfades at comp edges

Avoids clicks where takes switch

Group editing

Comp several tracks together (multi-mic drums)

Track versions

Alternative playlists per track you can switch between

Range tool

Select a time span across many tracks, ignoring clip edges

Range operations

Delete time, insert silence, crop, cut, split, slip contents

Clip volume envelopes

Draw a volume curve inside a clip

Shared copies

Duplicates that stay linked: edit one, all change

Crossfade editor

Separate in/out curves, equal power or gain, move the splice

Auto fades and crossfades

Short fades added automatically to every edit

Snap modes

Snap to events, shuffle, magnetic cursor, zero crossings

Insert / remove time across all tracks

Make room for a new section

Slip content

Slide audio inside a clip without moving the clip

Event and part colours, Color tool

Lock and group events

Scrub, line and tempo-warp tools

Event naming schemes

Rename many clips from a pattern

Longer undo history

More than 500 steps, kept with the project between sessions

Cut / copy / paste / insert silence in the sample editor

Use any plug-in as an offline process

Print an effect onto just part of a clip, re-editable

Detect silence

Split audio at silent parts, with fades

Regions, pencil redraw, statistics window

Hitpoints to groove / MIDI drum notes

Turn a drum recording into a groove template or MIDI

Pitch editing extras

Per-note volume, tilt/rotate the pitch curve, straighten part of a note

Scales for pitch quantize

Generate harmony voices

Create up to 4 backing-vocal harmonies from a lead

Audio follows the chord track

Recorded vocals or bass re-pitch when chords change

Real-time time-stretch

Audio follows tempo changes instantly instead of re-rendering

More time-stretch algorithms

Extra stretch modes tuned for different material, chosen per clip

Phase-coherent multitrack quantize

Quantize a multi-mic drum kit without phasing

Tap tempo

Tap a key to set the tempo

Fit tempo to a performance

Shape the tempo map around a free, unclicked recording

ARA 2

Run supported editing plug-ins right inside the timeline

Spectral repair suite

Unmix, heal, de-click, lasso and brush selections

Input gain, phase invert, high/low-cut on every channel

Built-in channel EQ

A 4-band EQ on every strip without adding an insert

Channel strip modules

Fixed gate / compressor / saturation / limiter slots

Audio input and output setup

Name your interface's inputs and outputs and play the mix through any output pair

Track output direct to a hardware output

Send a track straight to e.g. outputs 5/6 (outboard gear, separate monitor feed)

Clear MIDI track output in the mixer

Pan modes and pan law

Stereo combined / dual pan, -3 dB vs -6 dB laws

Mixer snapshots

Save and recall whole mix states

Link groups

Move several faders together

Solo safe / solo defeat / listen bus (AFL/PFL)

Direct routing

8 switchable outputs per channel for stems and versions

External FX / hardware inserts

Use outboard gear as an insert with delay compensation

Copy channel settings, pictures, notepad

Mixer view filters and multiple mixer windows

64-bit mix engine

Modulators

LFOs, envelope followers, steps, macros and random sources driving any parameter

Copy / paste automation between tracks

Punch-out, fill to punch, preview, suspend read/write

Automation pass tools

Sample-accurate plug-in automation

Meter types per channel (RMS, K-system)

Analyser suite

Spectrogram, phase scope, VU and histograms in one plug-in

Dolby Atmos (beds + 118 objects, ADM export)

Ambisonics and binaural

Full surround processing

Surround inserts on every channel and multichannel export

Multi-output instruments

Separate outputs for each drum in a drum plug-in

Third-party plug-in presets

Save and browse presets for any plug-in

Low-latency Windows drivers

Support for the low-latency drivers most Windows audio interfaces use

Plug-in editor windows on Windows / Linux

Anticipative processing

Pre-processes tracks you aren't playing live, for more headroom

ARA, VST2

Constrain delay compensation

Low-latency recording mode

JACK / PipeWire on Linux

More built-in effects

Growing the suite well beyond today’s 31

Vocoder

Vocal chain

An all-in-one vocal strip (16 modules)

Mastering maximiser and dither plug-in

Upward compression and multiband expansion

Plus a multiband envelope shaper

Character compressors and EQs

Tube, vintage and console-style colour

Creative delays and reverbs

Shimmer, mod delay, studio delay

Modulation extras

Auto-pan, vibrato, ring mod, chopper, cloner

Filter extras

Step, morph, wah, dual filter

Amp and bass amp racks

Spectral comparison EQ

Overlay another channel's spectrum to fix masking

Test tone and SMPTE generators

More MIDI effects

Beyond transpose, chorder and arpeggiator

Transformer and input transformer

Real-time rule-based MIDI changes

MIDI monitor

See incoming notes and CCs

MIDI echo, density, compressor, auto LFO, note-to-CC, micro tuner, context gate, quantizer

Step and beat designers as inserts

MIDI modifiers

Per-track random, range, velocity compression, track delay

Per-track MIDI input selection

MIDI sends

4 per track

Sampler track

Drop any audio and play it on the keyboard

Bigger drum machine

More pads, layers and kits

More synth presets

Sample library (pianos, orchestral, drums)

Loops and MIDI loops

Granular and vocal synths

A granular synth and a singing voice synth

Export queue and multiple formats at once

File naming schemes

Export by cycle markers / arranger chains

One-click quick export

Real-time export (for outboard gear)

Surround / multichannel files

BWF metadata, marker chunk, iXML; export selected clips

MIDI copy / paste

Edit several parts at once

See and edit other parts and tracks in one editor

Multiple controller lanes

Draw CC lines and curves

Line, parabola, sine, triangle, square

Drum map remapping

Remap input notes and set quantize per drum sound

Range tool in MIDI editors

Trim, split, glue, mute tools

Note editing on the timeline (in-place)

Chord editing in the editor

Insert chords, invert, drop-2/drop-3

Scale assistant

Highlight scale notes, snap live input to scale

Step input options

Separate note length, rests, insert mode

Editors in their own windows

Note colours by pitch, channel, part, scale

Note-off velocity, velocity variance, play probability

List editor filters and SysEx editing

Note chase

A note already held when you press Play still sounds

MIDI cleanup functions

Fixed length, delete doubles, delete overlaps, pedals to note length, restrict polyphony, thin out, reverse, mirror

Groove quantize

Copy the feel of a MIDI or audio groove

Quantize panel options

Catch range, safe range, randomise, presets, freeze / reset

Dissolve part, merge MIDI in loop

Split by pitch/channel; print MIDI effects to notes

MIDI 2.0, RPN/NRPN, SysEx

MIDI follows the chord track

Parts re-voice automatically when chords change

Extended chord types

9ths, 11ths, 13ths, m7♭5, dim7

Chord pad players and patterns

Pads play rhythms, strums and arpeggios

Chord detection

Create chord events from MIDI or audio

Arranger live jump mode

Jump between sections during playback

Chord assistant (circle of fifths, proximity)

Project logical editor

Rule-based edits on tracks, clips and parts

Record MPE and note expression

Capture expressive controllers and send note expression to plug-ins

Expression map extras

Sound slots, named groups and importing maps from instruments

Drum track and pattern editor

Per-lane length, Euclidean rhythms, ratchets, melodic mode

Adaptive and micro tuning

Lyrics

Slurs, hairpins, pedal, ottava, ornaments

Repeats, voltas, codas, rehearsal marks

Layouts and part extraction

Print each player's part from the full score

Grace notes, tremolos, more voices, cross-staff, other tuplets

Guitar tab and tunings

Page layout control

Margins, bars per system, systems per page

Marker track, cycle markers

Markers that define named ranges you can loop or export

Track visibility panel and filters

Show/hide many tracks, search tracks

Track presets with instrument, sends and routing

Zoom presets, zoom history, overview line

Divide track list, track lock, disable track, pictures

More key commands

Growing the ~150 rebindable commands

More preferences

Macros with logic presets

Profiles and safe mode

Switch whole preference sets; start without plug-ins

Preview through the audio engine, in project tempo

Loop browser and MIDI preview

Pool tools

Convert files, remove unused, minimise

REX and CD import

Per-track controller knobs

Eight knobs per track mapped to your controller

Controller scripting API

JavaScript scripts for any MIDI controller

Deeper Mackie Control and HUI

Extender units and more of each surface

Mobile remote app

Bundled ffmpeg

Frame rates 23.976 and 29.97 non-drop for timecode

Wider video codec support

Two video tracks, video follows edit

Varispeed chase and multi-computer sync

Follow external timecode by adjusting speed instead of re-locating

DAWproject format

Open and save projects in the open DAWproject format

Fuller AAF and OMF

Tested exchange with other studios, beyond audio-only sessions

Windows and Linux releases

Testing on real machines, then installers

Signed, notarised release

Remote recording

Record a musician in another place, over the internet

iPad and tablets

A touch-first Oxtave for iPad and Android tablets