Bounces

A bounce is an audio file you exported. DAWTER's main job is working out which bounce belongs to which song, including ones you exported years ago.

How matching works

DAWTER looks at the audio files near your projects and matches them by name and by where they are. An exported file is usually named after the song, or sits in a Bounces folder beside the project, and that is enough most of the time.

Where it is not enough, you can tell it. Find bounces searches wider and shows you what it found with a reason for each guess, and you accept or reject them. Nothing is applied behind your back.

Bounce words

Exports pick up suffixes — master, final, v3, mixdown. DAWTER knows a list of these so that Midnight Drive master v2.wav still matches the song Midnight Drive. The list is editable in Settings, which matters if you use a naming convention of your own.

The primary bounce

A song usually has several bounces. One of them is the primary — the one that plays when you press play on the song, and the one that gets shared unless you pick another. Set it from More Info. The newest is not always the best, which is why this is a choice rather than a date sort.

Stem folders

A song can also carry a stems folder: a folder on this Mac, or a link to one in your own cloud. It is listed under Stem Bounces in More Info, so the stems for a song are findable from the song rather than from memory. Attaching stems is part of Pro; stems already attached stay visible and removable whatever your plan.

Playing them

A bounce plays from this Mac when the file is here. When it is not — a Dropbox bounce, or a file on a drive you have unplugged — DAWTER falls back to streaming it from your own cloud if it can, and tells you plainly when it cannot. Playback, waveforms and timestamped notes are free and always have been.

Formats

DAWTER plays what macOS can play, and converts in the background where it needs to. For sharing, the list is narrower — mp3, m4a, wav and aiff — because the file has to play in a stranger's browser.