Choose the mode
Live reports 1.3 ms. Use Full when range matters more than monitor delay.
Pitch correction you can sing through.
14-day refund · 3 machines · No subscription or iLok
Demo limitations
- Occasional dry playback
- Presets and per-note editing locked
- Ear requires a license
- 1.3 ms
- Live mode
- Windows + macOS
- VST3 and CLAP
- Performative Ear
- Finds the key for you
Audio proof
Hear the same take, corrected.
One recording. Nothing else in the chain changes.
Press X to switch. Space plays.
Controls
Nine controls. Start with Mode.
Mode picks the trade. Your DAW is told this delay and lines the recording back up. The number stays the same whatever your sample rate or retune speed. Notes lower than a mode’s Hz figure pass through untouched.
- Live
- 1.3 ms
- 50 Hz · Sing through it
- Crisp
- 18 ms
- 80 Hz · Best quality per ms
- Voice
- 25 ms
- 80 Hz · Vocal range
- Full
- 40 ms
- 50 Hz · Full-range take
Retune, Flow, Formant, Key, Mix and Output do the rest.
See every controlThe plug-in
What comes with Performative.
Shape the correction
Retune sets how fast correction lands. Flow lets slides pass through.
See what it hears
See the sung note, target and cents. Hold Listen to hear the source.
Set the song
Choose chromatic, major or minor. Toggle notes to build a custom scale.
Follow Performative Ear
Put Ear on the master bus. Follow its key, or apply it once.
Performative Ear
Stay with the song.
Performative Ear hears the song, not just the vocal, and sends the key across automatically. It passes audio through unchanged — no files, no network.
Included with Performative. Inactive until licensed. Activated by your license.
Vocals
Performative
Instrumental
or here
Performative Ear
Master
recommended
Performative Ear
Ear goes on the master bus or the instrumental bus — one is enough. Audio stays on your normal routing.
What it scores
Two public research benchmarks. Every labeled track in both, not a sample.
| Corpus | Tracks | Key found exactly |
|---|---|---|
| GiantSteps+, electronic | 476 | 71.2% |
| GTZAN, nine genres | 837 | 58.5% |
Both are here because they disagree. Ear reads electronic material better than it reads everything else, and one figure on its own would not tell you that.
Exactly means the right tonic and the right mode, with no partial credit for a near miss. GiantSteps+ annotations, CC BY-SA 4.0. GTZAN-Key annotations, MIT, Alexander Lerch.
Session fit
Built to live in your session.
Other VST3 and CLAP hosts should work. Logic and GarageBand use the Audio Unit, which the macOS installer ships.
- Format
- VST3 and CLAP for Windows x64 and macOS Universal, Intel and Apple silicon. Audio Unit on macOS.
- Hosts
- Tested in Ableton Live 11 and 12, Cubase, FL Studio, Fender Studio Pro, Bitwig Studio, REAPER and Audacity.
- Interface
- GPU-drawn. Follows your display refresh rate. Stops drawing when idle. Eco mode runs at about 30 fps.
- Fit
- Thirteen languages. Light and dark themes. Presets. Mix and output controls.
Built and shipped by Jarod Castillo
One person writes the code, answers the support email and ships the updates. More about who builds it.
Performative
$199. Once.
One license covers version 1 on 3 machines at a time. Move a machine whenever you change computer. No subscription. No iLok.
Buy Performative- All version 1 updates.
- Three machines active at a time. Deactivate one to free its slot.
- License code delivered by email.
- 14-day refund, no questions asked.
- Ear activates with the license.
- Windows + macOS. VST3, CLAP and Audio Unit.
Internet required for activation and periodic license renewal. You can go at least 10 days without connecting.
License and connectivity details
Activate in the plugin, or from any other device if this machine is offline. Renewal is automatic and needs no attention. The plugin never asks a server whether you are licensed. You can disable update checks. Network requests never touch the audio thread.