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Recording state, MIDI & HUI

StudioTools doesn't plug into your DAW's internals. It listens the way a hardware controller does — over MIDI — and turns what it hears into one simple thing: the recording state.

The four recording states

Recording
The DAW is recording.
Armed
One or more tracks are record-enabled, but the DAW isn't recording.
Playing
The DAW is playing back.
Idle
Nothing is happening.

MIDI and virtual ports

HUI

Logic Pro's Recording Light

PTSL

Timecode formats