Windows 0.1.15 is live — Windows now catches up to the Mac release.
Highlights:
- Bit-perfect capture on Windows, verified. WASAPI process-loopback at the device's native mix rate, no internal resampler engaged. We wrote a verification harness that renders a known signal through shared-mode WASAPI, captures it back via the loopback path, then null-tests against the source. Across 48 kHz / 96 kHz and various source types (synthesised, decorrelated stereo, real .wav files), the result is max |c − s| = 0 — literally bit-identical samples, recovered gain 1.000000, residual SNR effectively infinite. Happy to share the test source with anyone who wants to reproduce it.
- Auto-rate now follows your default device (used to silently fall back to 48 kHz). Set Windows Sound → Format to your source rate; AudioRoute follows.
Honest caveat (Windows): bit-perfect here is relative to the audio engine's mix at the device rate. If an app plays 44.1 into a 48 kHz device, the engine resamples upstream of any capture tool — outside our reach. Match the rates and AudioRoute adds nothing.
AudioRoute — capture system audio in any DAW or recorder (Mac/Win)
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- KVRist
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- 31 posts since 13 May, 2026
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- KVRist
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- 31 posts since 13 May, 2026
A guide for Cubase 15 Pro is now live:
https://audio-route.com/guides/record-s ... -in-cubase
https://audio-route.com/guides/record-s ... -in-cubase
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- KVRist
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- 31 posts since 13 May, 2026
AudioRoute 0.1.16 — UX refresh on Mac and Windows
Shipped 0.1.16 today. Mostly improvements around getting started and managing your license:
• New onboarding walkthrough on first launch
• License status is now a clickable chip in the tray popup — trial countdown, Activate, Buy, Enter Key all live there.
Previously license entry was buried in the right-click menu and some users couldn't find it.
• "DAW guides" link in the tray popup footer so setup docs are one click from the app, not just on the website.
Shipped 0.1.16 today. Mostly improvements around getting started and managing your license:
• New onboarding walkthrough on first launch
• License status is now a clickable chip in the tray popup — trial countdown, Activate, Buy, Enter Key all live there.
Previously license entry was buried in the right-click menu and some users couldn't find it.
• "DAW guides" link in the tray popup footer so setup docs are one click from the app, not just on the website.
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- KVRist
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- 31 posts since 13 May, 2026
Just pushed 0.2.0 for Mac and Windows. The headline change: AudioRoute now ships as both an Audio Effect and an Instrument plug-in, instead of Instrument only.
A few of you asked some version of "why is this under Instruments? I was looking under Effects" — fair point. The plug-in replaces its input with system audio from our daemon, which is what an audio Effect does. The original Instrument classification was a historical decision we kept too long.
What's in the release:
- AudioRoute Capture FX (Audio Effect) — new. Insert on any audio / aux / FX track. Lands in Logic's Audio FX, Cubase's Tools, Live's Audio Effects, REAPER's standard FX list. This is the recommended way going forward.
- AudioRoute Capture (Instrument) — preserved exactly. Existing sessions keep loading the same plug-in by ID, nothing breaks.
Simple rule: Effect goes on an audio track, Instrument goes on a MIDI / Software Instrument track. Same daemon, same capture, same meters underneath — pick whichever matches your track type.
Updated DAW guides for the Effect flow are landing in the next day or two. If you're already running the existing 2-track setup with the Instrument on a MIDI / Software Instrument track, that workflow keeps working exactly as before — no migration needed. The Effect variant is purely an additional option for people who'd rather drop AR straight onto an audio or aux track.
A few of you asked some version of "why is this under Instruments? I was looking under Effects" — fair point. The plug-in replaces its input with system audio from our daemon, which is what an audio Effect does. The original Instrument classification was a historical decision we kept too long.
What's in the release:
- AudioRoute Capture FX (Audio Effect) — new. Insert on any audio / aux / FX track. Lands in Logic's Audio FX, Cubase's Tools, Live's Audio Effects, REAPER's standard FX list. This is the recommended way going forward.
- AudioRoute Capture (Instrument) — preserved exactly. Existing sessions keep loading the same plug-in by ID, nothing breaks.
Simple rule: Effect goes on an audio track, Instrument goes on a MIDI / Software Instrument track. Same daemon, same capture, same meters underneath — pick whichever matches your track type.
Updated DAW guides for the Effect flow are landing in the next day or two. If you're already running the existing 2-track setup with the Instrument on a MIDI / Software Instrument track, that workflow keeps working exactly as before — no migration needed. The Effect variant is purely an additional option for people who'd rather drop AR straight onto an audio or aux track.