Changelog

2.1.1

The plugin. DropWave now runs inside your DAW. DropWave Analyzer ships inside the app — launch it once and the plugin is installed — and reads whichever channel you insert it on. Press Analyze and it reports the key, the Camelot position and, where there is a pulse to find, the tempo. It passes audio through untouched. More →

The Camelot wheel is drawn in the result. All 24 positions as a ring, your key filled, the three keys that mix with it lit in place. Previously the result carried the code alone.

Files with no extension open. Analysis used to be refused before the file was ever looked at, so a bounce straight out of a DAW could be turned away. What decodes now decides what decodes.

Multi-file drops say what they did. Dropping twelve files used to analyse one with no sign the other eleven existed. It now says "Analysing 1 of 12".

Playback no longer swallows the Space key when there is no file loaded.

Finder's Open With now offers DropWave for video files, which had always worked when dragged in.

2.0

Rebuilt native. DropWave 2 shares no code with version 1. It went from around 200 MB with a pile of dependencies to a few megabytes with none, and from a cold start you could feel to a result that is there before you let go of the mouse.

Six readings instead of eleven. A spectral centroid, a sample rate Finder already shows, and an "energy" score on a made-up scale all came out. What went in was true peak in dBTP and loudness in LUFS, both to ITU-R BS.1770-4 — real units, defined by a published standard, comparable against anything else that implements it.

Confidence bands, with the alternative named when a call was close.

Tuning measured rather than assumed, and reported in cents — so detuned and pitch-shifted material resolves correctly.

Tempo to two decimal places.