HomeNote

A free plugin that listens to your track and finds its key and home note, the Detune in Hz and the tempo, ready to dial into Auto-Tune.

Version 1.0 · VST3 and AU · Mac and Windows

Mac

macOS 11 or later · Apple silicon and Intel

Installer VST3 + AU · 24 MB
  1. Open HomeNote-Mac-Installer.pkg.
  2. Click Continue and Install, and enter your Mac password. VST3 and AU both go straight into your plugin folders.
  3. Rescan plugins in your DAW. In FL Studio: Options → Manage plugins → Find installed plugins.
Install by hand instead

Download VST3 zip or AU zip, unzip it, then drag HomeNote.vst3 into ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3 or HomeNote.component into ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components. Then run this in Terminal so macOS lets it load:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/HomeNote.vst3 ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/HomeNote.component

Windows

Windows 10 or 11 · 64-bit

VST3 FL Studio, Ableton, Cubase, Reaper · 5 MB
  1. Right-click the download and choose Extract All.
  2. Open C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3 in File Explorer.
  3. Drag the HomeNote.vst3 folder into it and click Continue when Windows asks for permission.
  4. Rescan plugins in your DAW. In FL Studio: Options → Manage plugins → Find installed plugins.

To remove it later, delete the HomeNote.vst3 folder. A one-click Windows installer is coming soon.

Is it safe?

Scanned by about 70 antivirus engines

The downloads below were checked on VirusTotal, a free service owned by Google. The scan results below are public, so you can see each engine's verdict yourself.

Installs only the plugin

Mac: HomeNote.vst3 and HomeNote.component in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins. Windows: the HomeNote.vst3 folder in Common Files\VST3. Nothing runs in the background or at startup.

Never goes online

No account, no update checks, no analytics. HomeNote only analyses the audio playing on its track, on your computer.

Easy to remove

Mac: delete the two files above. Windows: delete the HomeNote.vst3 folder.

DownloadVirusTotalSHA-256 fingerprint
Mac installerScan results72d92d1629d03c5213c7093c0030c38d6120c83369bcfa086caf979a06dcad7b
Mac VST3 zipScan resultsacbb16dbb91fbbd793351c28c2f8d113cd8a8dc163077b888a602ef0c5262816
Windows VST3 zipScan resultsda1be78c1cc4cb8d605b546785f2374a32a0e99d8f137b441fd548a53c15277d

The fingerprint proves your file is exactly the one that was scanned. To check it, run shasum -a 256 FILE in Mac Terminal or Get-FileHash FILE in Windows PowerShell and compare.