CanopyAbout
Fourth Watch Labs

An audio post-production innovation lab.

We are not building traditional audio tools. We rethink how sound is designed and placed. On the precipice of a new dawn for mixing technologies.

INTRODUCING
Canopy

Canopy

Build the scene. Hear the room.

Canopy is a macOS application for post-production sound. Gather sources, place them in a speaker field, preview the bed, and export into a DAW.

Studio is where you build. Live is where you ride it in the session.

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Not your typical panner

An intelligent, decorrelated, immersive placement engine.

Canopy places unique audio into each channel. Affinity, density, and the deck mods (height, bias, focus, filter, pitch, time, warp) shape a field that is far more immersive than sliding one sound between speakers.

Affinity Scores

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Affinity Engine

Spread without the pile-up.

Affinity Engine lights channels from how close the panner sits to each speaker, with bias, height, focus, and density.

Density adds extra independent draws across the field. The image stays wide. You do not get the correlated buildup of traditional surround, the same mono blob copied onto every speaker.

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Gather the pool.

A sound browser with UCS-aware tagging. A project pool of sources, organized into builds and scenes.

Source Edit: waveform, spectrogram, trims, and health / loop-safety work.

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Canopy Studio

Build the Scene.

Every source in the scene sits on the panner as a ghost. Turn Beyond on and drag reach to the edge. The field opens past the speaker walls.

Explode sends the bed out into that space. Rotate spins the sources around the room.

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Heatmap

Hear the correlation as it plays.

Preview plays the baked bed. The correlation overlay lights the room where channels lock together. Crowded, in-phase beds go yellow and pink. Independent draws stay cooler.

Canopy Live
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Canopy Live

Ride it in the session.

Live is the DAW companion, plugin and standalone. It connects to Studio, follows the host playhead, and lets you pan while you hear the session.

Not a second editor. A remote surface and a renderer on the DAW clock.

About

Fourth Watch Labs

An audio post-production innovation lab. We rethink how sound is designed and placed, starting with Canopy.

The fourth watch is the last watch of the night, immediately before dawn. The person on watch is awake, attentive, and navigating by limited information. Precision before decoration. A clear signal in a dark field.

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hello@fourthwatchlabs.com

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