made for one job
takekeeper is a take-selection tool for voice actors. you record a session in one long file: take after take, with silence in between. takekeeper turns that file into individual takes and gives you a keyboard-only way to keep the good ones, in as many passes as you need, without ever touching a timeline.
it is built for voice-over sessions, audiobook narration, dubbing and adr, character reads, auditions, and pickups: anything where you need to split a voice recording at the silences, listen to every take, and end up with a clean folder of keepers for your daw.
how it works
drop the session
a wav of any length. the silences between takes are detected in seconds and every take becomes a clip in the unsorted lane.
listen and sort
clips autoplay one after another. enter promotes a take to the next lane, backspace trashes it. do a second pass on pass 1, a third on pass 2, until final holds the ones you want.
export the keepers
the final lane becomes numbered wav files written straight into a folder, ready to shift-drop onto one track in fl studio, or into reaper, audition, pro tools.
what it does
detection built for takes
800 takes in an hour is the normal case. threshold, minimum silence and margin are adjustable; re-detect never loses your sorting.
lanes instead of layers
the multi-pass selection you already do by dragging clips between tracks, without the dragging.
keyboard only
every action is a key, placed so a whole session can be sorted with one hand and no mouse.
fix the cuts
replay slow, step by a frame, split, merge a miscut back together, set a new start or end. undo everything.
script line marks
paste your script, press l when a new line starts; every take knows its line, so comparing the five reads of line 14 takes seconds.
private, bit-exact
no upload, no account. exported takes are byte-for-byte slices of your recording, in its own bit depth, with a 5 ms fade at each cut.
keys
everything acts on the clip under the amber playhead.
| space / shift space | play–pause / play clip from its start in slow motion |
| ↑ / ↓ | previous / next clip |
| ← → | step one frame · shift ×10 · alt ÷10 |
| home / end | clip start / end |
| enter / shift enter | promote to next lane / demote |
| backspace | trash; the lane closes up |
| 1…9 0 | send to lane n / back to unsorted |
| = / - | monitor gain up / down |
| s | split at playhead |
| m / shift m | merge with next / previous |
| i / o | set clip start / end at playhead |
| l / shift l | next script line starts here / jump to line |
| t | edit the script |
| tab / shift tab | switch lane |
| ctrl z / ctrl shift z | undo / redo |
| e · , · ? | export · settings · key reference |
into your daw
- fl studio: sort the exported folder by name, select all, hold shift while dropping onto the playlist: one track, in order. turn on ripple edit so deleting a clip closes the gap.
- reaper: select the files in the media explorer, insert as one track sequentially (insert → as one track, sequentially).
- audition / pro tools / logic: import the folder; the numbering keeps everything chronological. or export one merged wav with a fixed gap between takes.
faq
is my recording uploaded anywhere?
no. takekeeper reads the file straight from your disk inside the browser. there is no server, no account and no upload; exported clips are written back to your disk.
how long can the recording be?
wav files can be any length: an hour-long 24-bit session with 800 takes loads in a few seconds and uses almost no memory, because clips are references into the original file, not copies. compressed formats (mp3, flac, ogg, m4a) are decoded in memory, so keep those under about 25 minutes or convert to wav first.
how does it find the takes?
it measures the level of every 20 ms frame and cuts wherever the audio stays below a threshold for longer than the minimum silence. short breaths and pauses inside a take are left alone, and a margin of room tone is kept on both sides. threshold, minimum silence and margin are adjustable and you can re-detect at any time.
what if a cut lands in the wrong place?
every clip shows the audio around it, so you can step the playhead by a frame and set a new start or end, split a clip in two, or merge it back with its neighbour, which restores the original audio between them. everything has undo.
does it transcribe or match my script?
not with ai. paste your script, press l on the first take of each line while listening; every clip after it inherits that line until the next mark, and shift l jumps to a line number when you went back to redo something. line numbers go into the exported file names.
which browsers work?
chrome and edge on desktop get everything, including saving straight into a folder and reopening your session with one click. firefox works with a zip download instead. it is a keyboard tool, so phones and tablets are not the target.
can i record directly in takekeeper?
not yet. record in your usual chain (your interface and daw do it better) and drop the wav here. recording pickups in the browser is on the list.