Evlar Mastering Studio

Evlar Mastering Studio masters a finished song for release. Drop a song in, turn the dial, export the master.

Streaming services play every song at the same loudness, measured in LUFS. The dial sets that number anywhere from −16 to −8 LUFS, with quick presets at −16, −14, −11 and −9 for the levels streaming services and clubs play at. The app measures the song to the broadcast loudness standard and finds the drive that lands it on the target, so the number on the meter is the number a service will read.

The LUFS meter reads live while the song plays and for the whole song when it stops, beside two VU meters and gain-reduction lights.

Louder always sounds better for a moment. Here the untouched song plays at the same loudness as the master, so switching between them tells you what the chain did to the tone and the punch, not the volume. Click either meter, or press Tab.

Click the phone button and scan the code with your phone's camera, and the loudness dial is on your phone, with the Apple, Spotify, Club and Loud presets around it and the measured LUFS under it. Flip between Before and After, and play, stop or go back to the start, from the couch or the next room. Under the dial, the chain is on your phone too: switch Tone, Glue, Width and the limiter on and off to hear what each one does, pick the genre curve, and watch the glue and the limiter work as the song plays. With Studio Plus, multiband switches from your phone as well. The song keeps playing on your PC's speakers. There is no app to install, no account and no sign-up. Your phone talks straight to your PC over an encrypted connection.

Tone shapes the lows, cuts the mud and opens the air, with a curve for each of eight genres, from hip-hop, trap and drill to R&B, pop and lo-fi, and a flat one. Glue is gentle 2:1 compression that holds the mix together. Width spreads the stereo image while everything below 120 Hz stays mono, so the bass still hits on a phone. The limiter holds a −1 dB ceiling. Each stage switches on and off on its own.

With Studio Plus, when a song opens, the app splits its vocals from its beat in the background. Then you can turn the vocals up or down against the beat, clean them up, master the beat alone, or export the two as stems. Separation is best effort: some of the beat can bleed into the vocals and back.

The release check renders the master the way it will be exported and tests its loudness, true peak, clipping, sample peak, mono playback and an MP3 round trip, each with a pass or fail and one fix. Trims and fades set where the song starts and ends.

The album page starts with 12 tracks and takes as many more as you like, and it shows how far apart your songs sit. Drag them into order, retitle them for the album, play any one from its waveform, and add the artist, genre and year. Turn on the same loudness for every track and pick Apple Music, Spotify, SoundCloud or Club, or let each song keep the loudness you gave it. Every song keeps its own chain, and the album exports together, numbered and tagged, with up to 3 seconds between songs.

Every song and the album start with a cover of their own. Restyle it from 12 templates, your own photo and your colors, add a parental advisory label if you need one, and it is embedded in every exported song. Make a share video of the master under its cover with a visualizer, as an MP4 in 9:16 for vertical video, 1:1 for a feed or 16:9 for YouTube, from the best part of the song or the whole of it. One Export button covers it all: this song, the complete album, a video or the cover artwork.

Mastering Studio opens WAV, MP3, FLAC, OGG, M4A and AAC files and never changes them. The master is written as a new file. A .masterstudio project keeps every song with its chain, the album and the artwork in one file, with a copy of each song inside, so it opens the same on another PC.

Evlar Mastering Studio is one of three Evlar studios, each a separate app in the Microsoft Store. Evlar Beat Maker Studio makes the beat, Evlar Rap Studio records the verse, and Mastering Studio makes the song ready to release.

A mix sent from Rap Studio or a beat sent from Beat Maker Studio arrives in its own folder under Songs and stays linked, so when it is saved again there, the new version comes here. If a studio isn't installed yet, what you sent waits for it.

Mastering and MP3 export are free for personal use, along with the album page, the release check, trims and fades, cover design from six of the templates, and share videos in three visualizer styles with a small corner mark. Evlar Studio Plus adds vocal separation and clean-up; multiband compression, which works the lows, mids and highs separately; reference matching, which shapes your song toward the tone of one you love; WAV and FLAC export; all 12 cover templates, full-size cover art and saving the cover as an image; two more video styles with no mark; and every plugin. It also licenses your masters for commercial release. It comes monthly, yearly or as a one-time lifetime purchase, and one plan unlocks Mastering Studio, Rap Studio and Beat Maker Studio together for the same Microsoft account. An account is optional; sign in once and the other studios on the same PC are signed in too.