MasterBar sits on top of Live's window and shows what your master is doing: loudness, true peak, spectrum and stereo image. It listens to Live directly, so there is no plugin to insert and no audio to route.
The bar lines up with Live's window, takes on Live's theme, and comes and goes with Live. Want it apart? Pull it into its own window, full screen if you like.
Your locators and bar numbers run along the loudness history. You see right away which section pushed the level, without scrolling back through the song.
No plugin on the master, no BlackHole, no aggregate device to build. Open Live and MasterBar is there. Close Live and it steps aside.
Open the download and drag MasterBar into Applications. Replacing an older version? Quit it first from its icon in the menu bar.
Allow audio recording when macOS asks. That is how MasterBar hears Live, without a plugin.
Choose Attach to Live, then switch on MasterBar under Accessibility in System Settings. Was Live already open? MasterBar offers to restart it once.
MasterBar starts with your Mac and shows up whenever Live opens. Right-click the bar for all settings. Updates install themselves.
MasterBar is free to download and use. A paid version will follow later. Everyone who downloads it during the beta keeps it free, for good.
New versions install themselves. Leave your email if you also want to hear what changed and what is coming. That part is optional.
Updates install themselves. This is the last time you install MasterBar by hand. From now on it checks for new versions once a day, installs them quietly when you quit it, and tells you what changed the next time it opens.
Follows your Live theme, instantly. The bar takes the exact colours of the theme you use in Live, light or dark, and changes along the moment you pick another one.
Its own window. Under Position, choose Separate Window to pull the bar away from Live. Put it on another screen, resize it from any edge, or make it full screen with Control-Command-F.
Works without Live. Open MasterBar while Live isn't running and it measures all sound on your Mac. Under Source you can also do that next to Live, to compare with a reference on YouTube or Spotify.
Up to five graph windows. Each one shows any graph: scope, spectrum, imager, loudness history or spectrogram. Each window can have its own colour. Drag the lines between them to set the sizes.
A bigger, clearer meter. Make the bar taller and the meter becomes a dashboard with a bar for each reading. A new Peak meter shows left and right, like your DAW. Above your LUFS target or above 0 dB the meters turn red. Set any target you like under Meter > LUFS Target > Custom.
Imager and spectrogram. The imager shows your stereo image with correlation next to it. The spectrogram shows the spectrum over time and zooms from 10 seconds to 5 minutes.
Your locators right away. Locators you set in Live show up in the bar at once, even in a set you never saved.
No more security warning. MasterBar is now signed and checked by Apple. macOS asks once more for audio recording and Accessibility. Allow both and you're set.
Uses less CPU, so Live has more room in big projects.
Starts with your Mac, so the bar is there whenever Live opens. Turn it off in the menu with Open at Login.
Works whether you open Live or MasterBar first. If Live was already open, MasterBar offers to restart it once, and Live opens your set again.
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