sostenutobeta

introducing a new digital audio workstation from the makers of sequence.film

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The Sostenuto edit view: a multi-track arrangement of drum, bass, keys, guitar and vocal clips over a bar ruler, with a drum pattern open in the piano roll below, notes on a pitch grid above a velocity lane.
edit view arrangement / piano roll
The Sostenuto mix view: channel strips with colour-coded faders for every track, bus and stem, a master strip at the left, and the drums track's device chain open below.
mix view channel strips / device chain
feature manifest sos–1 / rev 0.7.0

editing & arrangement

multi-track editing / non-destructive trimming / drag & drop clips / blade tool / grid snapping / scene markers / range selection

recording & playback

multi-track audio & midi recording / hardware input assignment / live waveform preview / wav export / sample-accurate playback / loop control / live scope meter

time & transport

bars | beats | timecode | samples formats / playhead sync / transport controls

mixing & routing

faders / aux buses / track sends / output routing / mix folding (mute/solo) / channel mapping

track management

audio/instrument/aux track types / folder hierarchies / arm/solo/mute / identity color coding / quick track creation

piano roll

128-key pitch grid / note editing (add/delete/move/stretch) / scale mode with key folding / loop window display / control lane editing

midi

live input from hardware & virtual ports / note + velocity capture / instrument monitoring / continuous controllers / midi file import

plugin hosting

vst3 + audio unit support / plugin scanning & registry / real-time parameter control / plugin state persistence

native processors

sampler / arpeggiator / quantize / transpose / filter & amplitude envelopes / 128-key display

automation

automation lanes / parameter binding / point-based curves / lfo/macro/vca modulation

library & browser

media import / plugin catalog / search filtering / channel layout detection / drag-to-session drops

export

stem export / mixdown presets / wav/aiff format / delivery window

history

complete undo/redo / change entries / operation descriptions

preferences

type scale settings / theme support (light/dark) / keymap customization / layout state