Description
BUFFR is a retrospective multichannel audio and MIDI recorder plug-in for DAWs. It keeps up to two hours of DAW audio, System Audio, MIDI, and MPE ready to recover, edit, and drag back into a project after you play.
Availability
- Status
- Stable release · $49 launch price · Perpetual license with version 1.x updates
- Platforms
- macOS, Windows, Linux
- Plug-in formats
- AUv2, CLAP, VST3
- Standalone
- Included for Linux, Windows, and signed notarized macOS packages
Key features
- Retrospective capture keeps up to two hours of recent audio and MIDI while BUFFR is loaded.
- Captures 16 routed DAW audio channels, a separate stereo System Audio lane, and all 16 MIDI channels.
- Captures System Audio on macOS 13+, Windows 10/11, and native PipeWire Linux systems.
- Global MIDI records one selected controller outside DAW track arming while preserving MIDI and MPE expression.
- Spectral Grab selects, auditions, extracts, or removes sound by time and frequency.
- Audio and MIDI retain independent or linked playback, looping, markers, selections, and drag-out.
- Snap combines musical grids, transients, true zero crossings, markers, MIDI, and spectral bands.
- Center Align, Ride, normalization, tone, phase, and amplitude tools process retained audio non-destructively.
- Five-second recovery checkpoints protect audio, MIDI, and markers for the saved plug-in instance.
- Native export covers 16- or 24-bit FLAC, WAV, and Standard MIDI Files; MP3, AAC/M4A, and Ogg/Opus export requires FFmpeg.
- Native WAV import is included; FLAC, MP3, M4A/AAC, Ogg/Opus, and AIFF import requires FFmpeg.
- Linux drag-out has worked on every desktop Matari has tested: Hyprland, niri, KDE Plasma, GNOME, and Xfce.
- Linux, Windows, and signed notarized macOS release packages include the standalone application.
Logo and product images
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