What’s new in Mix Directive.

The first open beta. Every registered account can download it and use every feature while the beta runs.

New

• A faster native audio engine. Playback, rendering, exports, metering and the built-in effects now run on Mix Directive’s own native engine, so exports match what you hear during playback, including fades, clip edits, automation and effect tails.
• Spectral editor. Paint, select and repair audio directly on the spectrogram: attenuate, repair, de-hum, de-noise with learned noise profiles, extract a selection to a new stem, choose Linear/Mel/Log frequency scales, and audition with Band Solo and Selection Solo.
• Stem separation inside Studio, for whole songs or single stems, plus temporary vocal isolation so full mixes can be lyric-aligned.
• Lyric alignment with a forced aligner, editable and lockable word timing, and suggested hum regions to exclude.
• Mix revisions. Manual saves become numbered revisions with notes. The Revisions panel lets you compare, bookmark, restore and branch versions of a mix.
• Studio undo history that covers effects, bypass and automation, with a recovery journal that survives a crash.
• Automation upgrades: bezier curves, precision point editing, Simplify Points, and FX parameter envelopes that play back in the engine.
• Albums and releases: build album release packages, check release readiness, and get distributor upload kits for DistroKid, TuneCore, CD Baby and Bandcamp.
• Easy Master and master verification: mastered renders are checked and corrected for true peak and loudness, and approval goes through a current audio QC pass.
• New built-in effects: Breath Control, Stem Restore, restoration tools (de-clip, crackle repair, room reflection reduction) and an interactive multiband compressor graph.
• Library tools: an artwork grid view, Library Review for findings that need a decision, a Library History timeline, folder-of-stems pairing with ZIPs, and search by song ID, notes and noise flags.
• Shader visualizers with custom .frag files, multi-pass shaders and a managed shader library.
• Accessibility: high-contrast themes, colour-vision adaptation and adjustable interface scaling.

Improved

• Suno WAV and stem ZIP takes of the same song are paired automatically, and their stems are preferred.
• Libraries on network drives and removable disks cope with drives that go to sleep or disappear mid-session.
• Library undo and redo share one persistent journal.
• Imported external stems are copied into managed storage, so they keep working when the original folder moves.
• Crash reports can be sent without turning on usage analytics, which stay off by default.

Fixed

• Exports and offline renders now match live playback across effects, automation and fades.
• Many stability fixes across Studio, the Library, menus and plugin windows.

Known Issues

• VST3 and VST2 hosting is still experimental; third-party plugins vary in how reliably they restore editor windows and state.
• Windows and Linux builds are newer than the macOS build. Please report anything that behaves differently on your platform.
• Back up your library and projects before installing. Beta builds may change project and library formats.