macOS · Windows · AU · VST3 · v0.5.2
A click track you can actually play with
Tajt is a metronome instrument for your DAW. Four lanes, a different subdivision on every beat, volume per step, swing, your own samples and drum loops that follow the tempo.
Click a step to change its volume · pick a figure per lane · switch lanes on and off
A browser demo with the built-in sounds. The plug-in adds pitch and decay per lane, up to 16 beats and 4 bars, samples, loops and bounce.
Features
Built for drummers, producers and anyone who counts in
Four independent lanes
Stack a quarter-note wood block, a 16th-note tick, an accent beep and a cowbell on the offbeats. Each lane has its own sound, pitch, decay and volume.
Any figure, on any beat
Every beat gets its own subdivision: 8ths, triplets, 16ths, quintuplets, sextuplets, 32nds, shuffles, dotted figures and offbeats. Odd groupings stop being guesswork.
Free volume on every step
Set soft, medium or loud on each step, or anything in between. Accent the 'and' or ghost the 'e' and 'a', so the click sounds like music instead of a smoke alarm.
Swing from 50 to 75%
Push the even subdivisions late, from straight up to a hard shuffle. You practise against the feel of the song, not against a grid.
Your own samples
Load WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3 or CAF files as click sounds. Tajt copies them into its own library, so a project never loses its sounds.
Loops that follow tempo
Drop in a drum loop. Tajt finds its hits, slices it and plays the slices in time with the host, at any tempo. It reads ACID and Apple Loop metadata for the length.
Bounce to WAV
Render the click as an audio file and drag it straight onto a track, or save it. Useful for sessions, stems and the band's in-ear mix.
Locked to your DAW
Sample-accurate sync to the host transport, tested against simulated host timelines. Turn on Run When Stopped to practise with the transport stopped.
Practice
Work on quintuplets against a straight quarter, or drop the click to beat 1 only and see if you hold the time.
Record
Give the drummer a click that grooves. Shuffle, accents and a real drum loop instead of the DAW's beep.
Play live
Bounce the click for the in-ear mix, or run Tajt in the playback rig with a sound for every part of the song.
Download
Tajt 0.5.2 for macOS and Windows
One installer per platform, with the plug-in and the standalone app.
- ›macOS 11 Big Sur or later
- ›Apple Silicon and Intel (universal binary)
- ›Any AU or VST3 host, or standalone
Signed and notarized by Apple.
- ›Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
- ›Any VST3 host, or standalone
Installer with VST3 and an optional standalone app.
FAQ
Questions
Which hosts does it work in?+
On macOS, any host that loads Audio Units or VST3: Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Reaper, Cubase, Studio One, Bitwig, GarageBand and others. On Windows, any VST3 host: Ableton Live, Cubase, Studio One, Reaper, Bitwig and others. There is also a standalone app for practising without a DAW.
Do I need a separate version for Windows?+
Tajt is the same plug-in on both platforms, with the same sounds and features. Windows has VST3 and the standalone app; Audio Units only exist on macOS.
Why is it an instrument and not an effect?+
Tajt makes its own sound, so it goes on a Software Instrument (or MIDI) track. That way it keeps running in hosts like Logic even when no audio is playing through the track.
Where does the installer put things?+
On macOS the Audio Unit goes in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components, the VST3 in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3 and the optional standalone app in /Applications. On Windows the VST3 goes in C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3 and the optional app in C:\Program Files\Tajt; uninstall it under Settings → Apps. Your samples and bounces are kept in Music/Tajt in your home folder, and the installer never touches them.
Does it run on Apple Silicon?+
Yes. Tajt is a universal binary that runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs with macOS 11 or later. The installer is signed and notarized by Apple.
Logic doesn't show Tajt after installing. What now?+
The installer restarts the Audio Unit registry, so a restart of Logic is usually enough. If it still doesn't show, open Logic's Plug-in Manager and run a rescan.