Take it back.

Select what you just heard and drag it out as a WAV. Backtracking keeps up to 10 minutes of audio in memory.

WindowsmacOSVST3CLAP

Windows 10/11 x64 · macOS 14.2 or later

Live demo

Backtracking — dBFS

History3 min · 5 min · 10 min in the app

3 min 5 min 10 min

48 kHz · 32-bit float · stereo

0:00.0

Audio 1DAW track

Drag the selection here

A browser demo. The sound plays on this page. The real app captures your system playback, a microphone, a chosen app, or a DAW track.

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It's already listening.
Backtracking keeps the last 10 seconds to 10 minutes of audio in memory.
Select the part you want.
Drag across the waveform. Hold Shift to snap to flags, bars or seconds.
Drag it out as a WAV.
Drop it on a DAW track or into a folder. Recording keeps running in the background.

A/B
Record two sources at once and save two aligned WAVs.
Snapshot shortcut
Save from the background: Alt + ` on Windows, Fn/Globe + ` on macOS.
Waveform only
Shrink the window to a thin waveform strip, with adjustable transparency, kept on top.
Sources
Capture system playback, a microphone, or one chosen app.
Plug-in
Insert it on any DAW track to capture audio at that point in the chain.
Meter
Live level in dBFS, VU or momentary LUFS.
WAV export
44.1, 48 or 96 kHz; 16-bit, 24-bit PCM or 32-bit float.
Keep quiet sections
Optionally keep silence instead of compressing it.
Sender
A plug-in instance can send its audio to the desktop recorder on the same computer.