Nineteen tracks on one screen.
Coming soon$49 founders' price for early sign-ups
Solas
Record, edit, comp and mix.
Solas is a professional DAW for macOS, Windows and Linux. It records, edits, comps and mixes with a fast, focused workflow, and it hosts every plug-in you already own.
What Solas leaves out.
What it costs
No subscription
One purchase covers every future version. There are no paid upgrades.
No content library
No loops or bundled instruments to download or pay for. You use the plug-ins and sounds you already own.
How it works
No numbered buses
Channels route straight to other channels, so there's no bus 7 to remember.
No lock-in
Projects open and save as DAWproject files, an open format, so your work can move to another DAW.
Measured, not promised.
- 0.7 ms
- average time an audio callback took, with 128 stereo tracks streaming from disk. The budget is 10.7 ms.
- 0
- dropouts in that run. The disk thread was busy 1.7% of the time.
- 0.1%
- of a processor core when Solas is open and idle. It redraws only when something changes.
These come from our own test runs on an M4 Max, in a release build at 48 kHz with a 512-sample buffer. The idle figure is from a debug build, so it should be lower in the shipped app.
What is in Solas.
Edit & warp audio on the clip.
Comp takes by swiping.
Send any channel to any channel.
VST3, CLAP, AU and ARA2.
- VST3
- CLAP
- AU
- ARA2
The same on macOS, Windows and Linux.
Development log.
What has landed so far, newest first. Dates are when each feature was first committed.
A calmer mixer
A solo can now dim the other channels instead of muting them, bus, FX and VCA strips have colored caps, and instrument tracks have a Live monitor switch.
Audio editor and audio to MIDI
A dedicated audio editor with clip properties and waveform tools, and a way to turn a played line into notes you can edit.
Projects that travel
Open and save DAWproject files, so your work can move between DAWs.
Drum editor and drum maps
Edit drums by instrument name, with built-in drum maps for the kits you actually use.
CLAP and crash protection
CLAP hosting arrives, and any plug-in can run in a process of its own so a crash can't take the session with it.
ARA2 and comping
ARA2 plug-ins work in the timeline, and take lanes gain swipe comping with slip editing.
Buy once. Own it.
One purchase covers every future version. No subscription, no paid upgrades, and no content library you pay for and don’t use. Sign up for launch news to get the founders’ price.
- Founders' price, for early sign-ups
- $49
- Price at release
- $79
- Updates
- All included
- Subscription
- None
Every take kept. Comp by swiping.
Record as many passes as you like, each on its lane. Swipe across the best parts to build the comp.
The comp on top, the takes beneath it.
Take lanes.
Every pass is kept on a lane of its own. Nothing is thrown away until you say so.
Swipe comping.
Swipe across your takes to assemble a comp, then fine-tune the joins with slip editing.
Punch on the fly.
Punch in and out while the music plays, with the takes caught safely behind you.
Recordings that survive.
Audio is written to disk as you play, so a crash doesn't cost you the take.
Piano roll, drum grid, your controller.
Notes by hand, drums by instrument name, parts from audio. Then send the score on as MusicXML.
Piano roll.
Draw, select, quantize and humanize notes, with a velocity lane underneath.
Drum editor.
Edit drums by instrument name, with drum maps built for the kits you actually use.
Audio to MIDI.
Turn a played line into notes you can edit, transpose and re-voice.
MIDI learn.
Map any knob, fader or button on your controller to what you're working on.
MusicXML export.
Send notation to your score editor without retyping a bar.
Edit & warp audio on the clip.
The audio editor sits under the arrangement. Stretch, loop, fade and tighten without leaving the clip.
Time-stretch.
Clips follow the tempo, or stretch one by hand and keep the pitch where it belongs.
Fades and gain.
Fade a clip's edges, loop it and set its level, right on the clip.
Transients and silence.
Find the hits, strip the gaps, and tighten a performance without leaving the clip.
Insert and delete time.
Make room in a song, or close a gap, across every track at once.
Send any channel to any channel.
Inserts, sends, VCAs and folders on every strip. No bus numbers, and a loudness readout while you play.
Routing without bus numbers.
Send any channel straight to any other. There are no numbered buses to keep track of.
Inserts and sends.
Every strip has a rack of inserts, sends with levels of their own, pan, and meters you can read at a glance.
Sidechains, VCAs and folders.
Duck one track with another, ride a group with a VCA, and fold busy sessions into folders.
Freeze.
Render a heavy track to audio and unload its plug-ins to give your processor room. Thaw it any time, and nothing is lost.
Loudness.
Watch programme loudness, momentary loudness and true peak as you play, and read the loudness of every mixdown.
Plug-ins can crash. Your session does not have to.
Solas hosts VST3, CLAP and Audio Units (on macOS), with ARA2 on top. Any plug-in can run in a process of its own.
- VST3
- CLAP
- AU
- ARA2
Crash protection.
A plug-in that misbehaves is caught before it takes your session with it. Run any plug-in in a process of its own.
ARA2.
Melodyne and other ARA plug-ins work in the timeline, sharing the audio with Solas instead of capturing it.
Plug-in manager.
Scan, sort and see what's installed, with each plug-in's state and a preview before you load it.
No bundled library.
Solas has no sample library to download or pay for. That effort goes into hosting what you already own.
Fast to drive. Hard to lose work in.
Workflow
Keyboard first
Familiar shortcuts for editing, navigating and mixing, so your hands rarely leave the keys.
Task workspaces
Switch between record, MIDI, edit and mix with the panes arranged for each.
Arranger lane
Sketch the structure of a song and move whole sections around.
Panes in windows
Put the mixer or an editor on a second screen whenever you like.
Reliability
Autosave and recovery
If the worst happens, your work comes back at the next start, even for a project you hadn't saved yet.
Quiet when idle
The interface redraws only when something changes, so Solas stays out of the way of your processor.
Your projects stay yours
Open and save DAWproject files, an open format, so your work can move between DAWs.
Measured, not assumed
Audio processing is tested offline against known results, and callback timing is reported.
The same app on macOS, Windows and Linux.
Solas is one codebase for macOS, Windows and Linux. Every pixel of the interface is drawn by Solas itself, so it looks and feels the same wherever you work, and your muscle memory moves with you.
Questions? Answers.
When is Solas available?
Solas is in development and isn't on sale yet. Sign up for launch news and we'll tell you as soon as early access opens.
How much will it cost?
Early sign-ups get a founders' price of $49. The price at release will be $79. It's a one-time purchase that covers every future version, with no subscription and no paid upgrades.
Which platforms does it run on?
macOS, Windows and Linux, from one codebase, with the same interface on each.
Which plug-in formats are supported?
VST3 and CLAP on all three platforms, Audio Units on macOS, and ARA2 (for tools like Melodyne) through those formats.
Does it include instruments or a sound library?
No. Solas is a DAW without a bundled content library, so you only pay for the software and use the plug-ins and sounds you already have.
Can I move projects between Solas and other DAWs?
Yes. Solas opens and saves DAWproject files, an open format, so your projects aren't locked in.
Will there be a trial?
We haven't announced one yet. Sign up and we'll let you know.
What happens to my email address?
We use it only to send you news about Solas and other Ogham Audio products you've signed up for, and you can unsubscribe in any email. See the privacy policy.
Get an email when Solas is ready.
One email when early access opens, with the founders’ price. Nothing before that.