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PLEROMA
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Order of Matter
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Plays only when you press play. It steps aside while you try something in OD Studio, then comes back.
DYour DAW, connected
OD Studio doesn’t replace Logic Pro, FL Studio or Ableton Live. It works beside them — in time with the session while it plays, carrying the sound you just found onto the track you’re working on, and reading the project itself while the DAW is closed.
01DAW Sync
Press play in your DAW and OD Studio is already listening — its tempo, its bar, its cycle. Audition anything from your library and it enters on the next beat, at the session’s tempo, and stops the instant the DAW does. Choose a DAW, press play, then press one of the founder’s compositions. Then switch sync off and hear what working without it sounds like.
Not any DAW’s interface — a stand-in for its transport. Press the ruler to jump.
The MIDI collection — press one
Details
Click any sound — it starts on the next beat, locked to the DAW. Press play in the DAW first, or arm a sound and then press play.
How OD Studio reaches Logic Pro
Logic sends its timecode and transport to a control surface OD Studio provides — Logic finds it by itself — and OD Studio reads the tempo, the meter and the project’s name from Logic’s window.
Founder-accepted · in production. Timing: a constant 18.3 ms correction for the timecode’s lateness. Nothing is added to your projects.
A simulation in your browser, with this site’s instruments: nothing here connects to a DAW on your computer. In OD Studio, the DAW keeps the time — OD Studio follows it and never changes its tempo, meter or transport.
02Plug-ins, presets, Use in DAW
Presets live in a dozen folders, in formats that don’t know each other, under names that say nothing about how they sound. OD Studio reads them all into one place, sorted by what they are and linked to the plug-in that plays them. Find one, hear it, and send it straight to the track you’re working on — OD Studio places it in the open project and checks it arrived.
~/Library/Audio/Presets/Harbour Instruments/Tidewater/Pads
~/Documents/Harbour Instruments/Collected
~/Library/Audio/Presets/Paper Moon Audio/Glasshouse Keys
~/Music/Audio Music Apps/Plug-In Settings/Glasshouse Keys
~/Music/Audio Music Apps/Plug-In Settings/Glasshouse Keys/Organs
~/Documents/Harbour Instruments/Velvet Strings/Ensembles
~/Library/Audio/Presets/Harbour Instruments/Tidewater/Plucks
~/Library/Audio/Presets/Low Tide Labs/Sub Foundry/Bass
~/Documents/Harbour Instruments/NKS/Leads
~/Library/Audio/Presets/Northline DSP/Long Hall
~/Music/Audio Music Apps/Plug-In Settings/Tape Echo
~/Music/Audio Music Apps/Channel Strip Settings
03Project Intelligence
Which reverb was on the vocal three saves ago? Which samples will be missing at the session? What did you change last night? OD Studio reads the project file itself — read-only, offline, with the DAW closed — and shows each part of it plainly.
A fictional Logic Pro project, described by this page with the kinds of facts OD Studio reads and the words its Project Anatomy uses. It was not saved by Logic Pro.
Real OD Studio The same reading in the app — a demonstration Live Set, read by OD Studio for Mac.
OD Studio opens the profile of a demonstration Ableton Live Set, then its arrangement anatomy; selecting clips shows the notes inside them. Ableton Live is not running. The recording has no sound.
04What each DAW supports
Support is not the same for every DAW, so here it is capability by capability — what works today, what is being refined, and what is still to come.
| Capability | Logic Pro | Ableton Live | FL Studio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recognise and read the projectThe file opened on its own, offline and read-only. | Working | Working | Working |
| Project AnatomyTracks, instruments and effect chains; regions, clips and notes; tempo and markers. | Working | WorkingSession and Arrangement, devices and racks | WorkingPlaylist, Channel Rack, Piano Roll, Mixer — automation clips not read yet |
| Save historyWhat changed from one save to the next. | Workingincl. Logic’s own backups | Workingfrom Live’s backups | Workingsaved, earlier and unsaved work kept apart |
| Samples and plug-ins a project needsWhat is on this Mac, and what is missing. | Working | Workingplug-ins identified by format | Workingchecked against FL Studio’s own plug-in list |
| Reference MixThe project’s finished mix, played with the arrangement. | Working | Not available | Not available |
| Capability | Logic Pro | Ableton Live | FL Studio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Follow tempo and transportPreviews start on the next beat, at the DAW’s tempo, while the DAW plays. | Working | Being refined | Being refinedmetre changes and loop following planned |
| Follow the loopThe DAW’s cycle or loop, followed in OD Studio. | Being refinedcycle on / off | Being refined | Planned |
| Control the DAW’s transportPlay and stop the DAW from OD Studio. | Being refined | Planned | Planned |
| Place a plug-in or preset in the DAWChoose a sound in OD Studio; it arrives on a track in the open project. | Working | Working | Being refined |
| Capability | Logic Pro | Ableton Live | FL Studio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Projects into Studio SessionsTracks, notes, routing and audio, referenced in place — the project itself never changed. | In developmentfirst version built | In development | In development |
More DAWs are planned. OD Studio already recognises project files from other DAWs in your library and keeps them safe; reading them is on the plan, with no dates announced.
Working built, and accepted in real use ·Being refined usable, still being finished ·In development not ready to use ·Planned not built yet
05Where OD Studio runs
The primary product, being built for Macs with Apple silicon. It hosts Audio Unit instruments and effects, and keeps a catalogue of every plug-in on your Mac whatever its format.
In development · not yet available · no release date or price
A companion for your library away from the Mac. It will be shown here when it can be shown working.
Part of OD Studio’s long-term plan, together with VST3 plug-ins. It is not scheduled and no Windows version is being built yet — OD Studio is designed so that it can follow.
No date announced
