Key Detector.
Analyses audio and reports its musical key and scale, with a confidence reading.

Overview
The key, found for you.
Key Detector works out the key of a sample, a track or a full mix using Waves' neural network engine, returning a root note, a major or minor scale and two likely alternatives. Offering alternatives is sensible rather than evasive, since real music is frequently ambiguous. It copes with complex material where several instruments play at once, and still identifies a key when the recording sits off concert pitch.
Highlights
Compatibility
Specs and requirements.
Licence and delivery
- Formats
- VSTVST3AUAAX NativeAAX DSP
- Licence
- Perpetual licence
- Delivery
- Instant download
- Type
- Utility
- SKU
- 1246-2772
- Product code
- KEYDET
macOS
- OS
- 11 or later (native Apple Silicon)
- Processor
- Apple Silicon & Intel
Windows
- OS
- 10 or later (64-bit)
- Processor
- 64-bit Intel / AMD
Apple Silicon and Intel Macs are both natively supported.
About the maker
Meet Waves.
Waves Audio, founded in 1992 in Israel, is one of the world's largest developers of audio plugins and signal processors. Its catalogue spans EQs, compressors, reverbs, and vintage console emulations used across music, film, broadcast, and live sound.
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