Summary

SkeletonHive is a cross-platform Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) designed for musicians, composers, and audio engineers offering multi-track audio and MIDI sequencing, recording, editing, and plugin hosting capabilities.

Features

• Multi-track arrangement timeline supporting audio and MIDI.
• MIDI sequencing with piano roll editor including velocity, CC, pitch bend, and aftertouch lanes.
• Audio and MIDI recording with punch and loop modes, plus metronome and count-in.
• Audio export and bounce to WAV or FLAC formats.
• VST3 plugin hosting with AU support on macOS; VST3 effects can run in crash-isolated sandbox process.
• Mixer with level meters, sends, and sidechain routing.
• Parameter automation with Read, Touch, and Latch modes and editable lanes.
• Arrangement markers and tempo/time-signature map editing.
• Track freeze capability.
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts, themes, autosave, and audio preferences.
• MIDI controller learn for mixer controls and generic control-surface fader bank with session-grid LED feedback.
• Audio clip inspector with gain, transpose, reverse, speed, and loop adjustments.
• Take lanes and comping for audio/MIDI clips including loop-record takes, comp editing, and flattening.
• In-place consolidate and flatten-to-audio for device chains.
• Linked clip-group editing with inspector and fade curve propagation.
• Plugin hot-swap with state transfer and per-device preset browser supporting A/B comparison.
• Default device chains for new audio/MIDI tracks.
• Native instruments including Sampler, Drum Rack, and 4OSC Synth with dedicated editors.
• Sample browser with library scan, hover preview, and drag-to-timeline import.
• Clip library with drag-to-save presets, export functionality, and collection management.
• Live-style detail panel supporting roaming track focus.
• Global groove pool with project persistence.
• Embedded plugin browser in left browser panel.
• Session View grid featuring clip slots, scene launch, quantization, and drag-to-slot import.
• Session to arrangement bridging with recording, capture, insert, and commit loop functionality.
• Session performance features including follow actions per slot, legato launch, MIDI note mapping, and macro performance panel.
• MIDI clip scale lock with playback filtering for out-of-scale notes.
• Per-note probability and iteration lanes in piano roll and session clips re-roll on loops.
• Session grid virtualization for handling large track counts efficiently.