A desktop app for producers, mixing and mastering engineers. All the work done in your studio, and your references, in one library where you can organize, review and compare it, with useful audio measurements of each track or album.
I made DATUM to keep all my work in one place and get to it quickly and directly. It speeds up tasks I was doing by hand in my own studio: finding mixes and masters among folders, checking the loudness of an album, comparing it with a reference, remembering the gear I used.
Add the folders where your work lives and see it all in one list, with your references. Sort the whole library by what you measure: loudest or quietest first, highest True Peak, most dynamic, widest. Mark what comes from your studio to show it on its own, and group tracks into playlists. Your audio is not copied, and if a drive is unplugged its tracks stay in the list.
See the measurements of any track and the gear you used on it, and listen at the level you choose.
A very fast way to explore the properties of one track or several, without leaving the list: loudness, tonal balance against your reference, mid/side, width and the gain on each streaming platform. With several tracks selected, step through them one by one.
Add photos of your gear and screenshots of your plugins to each song, with the chain step by step and your notes. Ideal for revisions.
Volume control with three configurable memories for your listening levels, and Stereo, Mid and Side monitoring.
Unlike a regular music player, DATUM measures what you listen to. Visualize an album as a whole: its loudness range, and how the tonal balance of each track sits against the others. Play your tracks at the same level, normalized to the common streaming targets, against each other or against a reference, and see how they differ.
No. Files are analyzed on your computer and are not uploaded.
No, it is a standalone desktop app.
No. It reads your files to measure and play them, and never changes them.
No. DATUM is a desktop app for the audio files on your own computer. It doesn't host or stream music, and your files stay where they are.
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