DropWave does not go online
Not "we don't collect your data". DropWave never connects to the internet at all.
There is no telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting, no account, no sign-in, no licence server, and no update check. There is no setting to switch off, because there is nothing switched on. You will not see a firewall prompt on first launch, because nothing ever asks.
What happens to a file
- It is read from disk.
- Numbers are worked out from it, on your machine.
- The numbers are shown to you.
That is the whole lifecycle. Nothing is stored, nothing is cached anywhere you did not put it, and nothing persists once you close the app.
DropWave never modifies the file it analyses. No tags, no sidecar files, no metadata. What leaves the window is byte-for-byte what went in.
The plugin
The plugin reads the channel it is inserted on so that it has something to analyse when you press Analyze. That stays in memory, never touches the disk, and never leaves your machine. It passes your audio through untouched.
Unreleased work
This is the reason the whole thing was built this way. Producers work on material that is not theirs to upload — client stems, unreleased records, things under NDA — and the ordinary way of finding out what key a file is in involves sending it to somebody else's server.
With DropWave that decision never comes up.
No licence server
A practical consequence worth naming: nothing about DropWave can stop working because a service was discontinued or a certificate expired somewhere else. A copy that runs today keeps running.
This site
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