UseTime


This is a C++/JUCE Plugin that displays and records use time in your DAW. I created this because I couldn't find a good (free!) alternative, as some Max for Live devices mostly worked but were only designed to track time per project (rather than global time spent in the DAW), and thus had trouble displaying larger times. Further, some of the other plugins I tried would have issues when exporting. I assume this is because they derive the time from the number of samples that elapse and the DAW's sample rate -- when Ableton (my DAW of choice) exports at least it runs through all the samples statically, causing the plugins mistakenly record a huge amount of time (the length of the export) when they should only be recording the amount of time it takes to export. While I haven't tested this extensively on other devices/DAWs, it works well for my use case, and it might work for you too!