Notes from the workbench.
Measured, then written.
Miles is built on a simple rule: nothing gets claimed until it has been measured. These are the measurements, and what they turned out to say.
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What an assistant sends when it looks at your screen
We put a capture proxy in front of our own app and read every byte it sent. One question with the eye open was 327,877 bytes. 89 percent of it was one PNG.
- 7 min read
WavTool went offline in 2024 and 2026 pages still send you there
The site returns HTTP 200 and says the product is gone. A directory page updated on 25 August 2026 still lists it as available with a working button. Here is the measurement and the mechanism.
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The one number that says your low end will survive mono
Checking a mix in mono is advice. Low band correlation is a number. Here is how we compute it, the line we drew at 0.6, and why that line is a choice.
- 12 min read
What a DAW AI assistant is, and the five kinds that now exist
The phrase covers five products that observe different things and change different things. Here is the dividing line, and what ours can actually observe.
- 8 min read
808 and kick: what 1016 files taught us about reading the low end
We tested four ways for a tool to decide the low end is an instrument, on 1016 real files. The one we shipped opens on 9 percent of them. Here is the run.
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Your mix sounds muddy and the analyzer says it is fine
An analyzer reads level. Mud is a ratio. Here is the measurement that separates the two, the corpus its thresholds came from, and when it stays quiet.
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When key detection misses, it usually misses by a fifth
We measured 185 uncertain key readings against real files. Of the 90 that missed the tonic, 54 landed exactly a fifth above. Here is what we changed.