FAQ

Currently, Strata supports the following DAWs - Ableton 10+ - FL Studio 21+ - Reaper - Bitwig 4.0+ In the near future, we will be adding support for : - Logic Pro - Studio One - (Maybe) Cubase If you have any DAWs you would like to see supported, definitely let us know!

Strata only backups your profile and overall stats to our servers. The stats being your individual DAW stats, overall stats, and plugin usage. Your projects files, individual project stats, and samples are not backed to the cloud.

By default, all profiles are public. Other users can view your profile, overall stats, plugin stats and achievements. Accounts can also be made private allowing only added friends to view all of the information above. Other users can NEVER view your projects, project stats, or samples (We do not save these to the cloud anyway).

No, Strata is its own desktop app and runs silently in the background.

Strata uses a mixture of techniques to perform its tracking. First, Strata is broken into 3 different applications & a midi control surface script. Standalone app - This is just the user interface, no stat collection. Midi Control Surface Script - Most DAWs support scripts which allow midi controllers to receive information from the DAW like playback state, plugin parameter changes, and timeline information. Strata utilizes this functionality to collect some of its stats from the DAW. Background Service - The background service runs silently in the background and listens for read and write file operations from the DAW process. When read & writes of DAW project files, recordings, or exports are detected, it forwards the call to the user service. User Service - The user service is in charge of the stat collection and parsing. When informed by either the Midi Control Surface Script or the Background Service of project changes, the user service can parse the project file and measures the changes between saves, or measure the live updates if provided by the DAWs midi script API.

Yes. Strata stores your profile, overall stats, plugni stats, and achievements in the cloud for access on any device. Note: Your project stats and sample stats are not cloud saved, as they are local to your files. We may introduce support for cloud storage for these down the line after we gauge costs and practicality.

Currently, there is not an API for other plugin developers to interact with Strata. However, we would be very interested in developing one to allow other plugins to report their own stats and achievements. If this is of interest to you, please contact us! We'd like to gauge interest before starting the development process.