Wake: Sound Activated Recorder

Wake is a sound-activated field recorder. Set a threshold, arm it, and let the sound start the take. Come back to the bird call, the passing train, the voice or the knock you wanted to catch.

For field notes, foley, nature recordings, voice notes and musical ideas. See what you hear as a live spectrum, mark the moments worth keeping, and turn a recording into audio, a captioned video or a timestamped transcript.

CATCH THE SOUND
Set the threshold, trigger EQ, pre-roll, post-roll and hold. The gate listens for the sound you choose and keeps the lead-in and tail. Use the microphone, a connected audio input, a WaveLoop stream, or a compatible Ableton Link Audio channel on your local network.

MARK THE MOMENT
Tap the flag while recording to add a bookmark. Wake suggests a name from what it heard; change it whenever you like. Add bookmarks during review, then hold and drag a marker on the tape to move it. Their names and positions travel into video exports.

FOLLOW THE TAPE
Push through a recording's waterfall with your finger, with capture times beside the sound. Review the whole session or its individual takes. Library cards show duration, take count, what was heard and optional capture location. Play a recording with the screen locked, use headphone controls, and return to where you stopped.

SHARE WHAT YOU CAUGHT
Render SQUARE videos for feeds, VERTICAL for stories, or a STRIP to lay over another scene. Add captions timed to the words, bookmarks, capture details and custom waterfall colours. Export audio as WAV, M4A, FLAC or OGG (Opus), or the transcript as timestamped JSON and plain text. Crop a selection and normalize playback and exports without changing the original audio.

KEEP A RECORD
Takes are written to storage while you record, with 16- or 24-bit capture and recovery of saved audio after an interruption. A tamper-evident audit trail seals the audio and can include optional capture coordinates. Your library syncs through your own iCloud between iPhone and iPad.

LET SOUND CUE THE REST
BROADCAST sends Wake's audio to another Wake on the same local network. Optional TRIGGERS sends MIDI notes and OSC cues for sounds, takes and sealed wakes to another app or your DAW.

Record with the screen locked. Follow the gate, elapsed time and take count on the Lock Screen Live Activity, and stop there without unlocking. Optional QUICK CAPTURE lets supported Action Button and Control Center controls start a session while Wake is in the background.

Sound classification and bookmark naming run on-device. Captions use Apple speech recognition. Recordings stay on your device and in your own iCloud; they are not uploaded to us.

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