Talkback that follows your transport. Open when the session stops, shut when you roll — automatically. One giant ON AIR button, MIDI and keyboard control, and a safety recorder that never misses a take.
Talkback by hand
- ✕ You ride the mute button on every single take
- ✕ Forget to open it and the talent talks to silence
- ✕ Forget to close it and you print breathing over the take
- ✕ The best direction happens between rolls — and it's gone
Talkback that thinks
- ✓ Opens and closes itself from the host transport
- ✓ Smooth, click-free ramps — never a pop in the room
- ✓ Push-to-talk or latch, override by MIDI or a key
- ✓ A rescue recorder catches every word, even when stopped
Set it once. Forget the mute button.
Relay was built on real post-production sessions, where talkback should just work — automatically, cleanly, and without stealing your attention from the mix.
Transport-aware gate
Relay reads your DAW playhead and opens the moment the session stops, closes the moment you roll. Smooth cosine ramps — never a click. Pick open-on-stop (classic talkback) or open-on-play.
One honest ON AIR button
A single giant button that glows red when you are live, with a 64-LED ring metering your talkback level in real time. You always know whether the room can hear you.
Push-to-talk or Latch
Hold to talk, or toggle and walk away. Manual override always wins over the automatic gate — and your choice is saved with the session.
MIDI & Keyboard Learn
Map any MIDI note or CC, or any key chord (even Cmd+Alt+Space), to your talkback. It keeps working with the plugin window closed — control the room without leaving your edit.
Rescue Recorder
Use AUTO to capture the sidechain whenever the session stops, or press REC whenever you choose. Through PTSL, Relay finds the open Pro Tools session and keeps every rescue take inside Audio Files/Rescue.
Made for Pro Tools
VST3, AU and AAX, macOS Universal (Intel & Apple Silicon), signed and notarized. Designed for Pro Tools and just as at home in Logic, Live or any VST3/AU host.
The best take usually happens
between the rolls.
In ADR, foley and dubbing, the magic often lands while the session is stopped and nobody is recording. AUTO catches the sidechain whenever the transport stops; manual REC captures whenever you decide. In Pro Tools, PTSL keeps every timestamped 24-bit WAV beside the session in Audio Files/Rescue.
AUTO between rolls
Stop the transport and Relay starts a safety file after detecting the stop. Roll again and it closes it. One clean take per stop, hands-free.
REC when you choose
Manual REC works independently of the transport. Capture a direction, rehearsal or wild take whenever it matters.
Audio Files/Rescue, automatically
PTSL identifies the open Pro Tools session and Relay writes chronological 24-bit WAVs to Audio Files/Rescue. You can also choose another folder and open it in Finder.
Born on the talkback bus of a real studio
Relay started as a fix for something we did a hundred times a day at Blacktone Studio: reaching for the talkback mute on every take, and kicking ourselves when a great line slipped by while the session was stopped.
So we built talkback that handles itself — and quietly records the takes we used to lose. This is the same plugin we run on our own ADR and post sessions. Now it's yours too.
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