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What it does

A standalone audio canvas with no tracks and no timeline. Waves sit anywhere on an infinite grid at any angle, and playheads are drawn paths whose sweep line plays whatever they cross. Each has its own speed, direction and loop behaviour, and bends around pivot handles. Circular auras apply any AUv3 to whatever plays inside them.

In the demo

Jade drags loops in from Files, cuts one with the scissors, then draws playheads and spins them on their axis so they run backwards through a wave. She bends one into a wave shape with pivot points, drops effect circles over a chain recording, and records guitar into the rolling capture strip.

Worth knowing

iPad and Mac only, and it hosts AUv3 effects without being one itself. Guitar recorded through an interface arrives on a single channel, and MIDI files will not drop in. Anyone after verses and an arrangement will not find a timeline to put them on.