Introducing Sineless
· Orizon Audio · 3 min read
Level meters show how loud a track is, not where its energy sits in time. Sineless is an oscilloscope plugin that shows the waveform itself: whether the kick lands with the bass, whether two microphones on a snare cancel each other, how a transient really looks. It's free, open source, and available for macOS and Windows.
Every track, lined up
Put Sineless last on each track you want to see. In the Multi view every instance shows up as a lane, up to sixteen, each in its track's colour and lined up in time with the others, stacked or overlaid. Groups A to D keep separate comparisons apart, for example drums in one group and vocals in another.
Triggered or tempo-synced
In Sec mode, Sineless is a triggered scope: from 0.5 ms to 1 s across the screen, with Auto, Normal, Free and Single trigger modes, so a steady tone stands still. In Beats mode the sweep follows your host's tempo instead: a span in beats or bars, up to sixteen bars, on the host's bar lines, with a beat grid and playhead. Change the tempo or the time signature while playing and the grid follows.
Read it exactly
Freeze the display, or let it freeze when the transport stops, then pan back through the last four seconds. Zoom down to individual samples. Time and level cursors snap to zero crossings and peaks, and the readout shows the time between them in milliseconds and samples, its frequency and nearest note, the length in beats, and levels in dB.
Compare two tracks
Compare, in beta, measures another track's offset, polarity and likeness against this one. You can hear the two tracks' sum and see how loud it is, then preview the fix before you change anything in your session.
Zero latency
Sineless passes audio through unchanged and reports zero latency, so it can stay on every track while you mix. It's a VST3 plugin on macOS and Windows, and an Audio Unit on macOS. So far it has been tested in Ableton Live 12 on macOS and Windows and in REAPER 7 on Windows; the tested hosts list grows with each release.
Free and open source
There's no account and no tracking, and the source is on GitHub under the GPLv3. Releases aren't code-signed yet, so macOS and Windows warn you the first time you open them. The install guides show how to get past that, and how to check the download against its published checksum first:
shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/Sineless-0.6.0-macOS.pkgWhat's next
- A redesigned interface, in the next release: the same views and controls, on Orizon Audio's new look.
- Signed releases, with an Apple Developer ID on macOS, so the first-launch warnings go away.
- More hosts tested: Logic Pro, Cubase, Bitwig Studio, Studio One and FL Studio.
- Pro Tools, with an AAX build.
Follow the roadmap and the releases feed, and tell us what you'd like to see in GitHub issues.