An audio timeline you can grab
Focus mode now shows your recording as a literal waveform rail, drawn the way Audition or Reaper would draw it, scrolling smoothly with the red playhead as you record. Click anywhere on that wave, even in the middle of a sentence, and that exact moment becomes the edit cursor. Listen plays from it. Record starts from it. Punch-back pre-rolls into it. During playback the script follows along, line by line, so you always know which sentence you are hearing.
Punch-back that fixes one word, not one paragraph
Say the line was "The quick brown fox jumped over the—" and the flub happened at "jumped." Before, a punch-back replaced the whole line, so you re-read everything. Now the punch point is wherever you put the cursor: a click on the wave, or simply where you pressed Stop. The app plays a few seconds of your own read as a run-up (crossing into the previous line when needed), drops a marker at the punch point, and the moment the playhead reaches it, recording takes over. Everything before the marker is kept, sample-accurately, in both clip-by-clip and continuous modes.
Stopping is smarter too: when you stop recording or listening, the cursor stays exactly where you stopped. Hear the mistake, hit stop, punch. You are already in the right place.
Your hands stay on the keyboard
Settings has a new Shortcuts tab. Space to listen, R to record, S to stop, arrows to move between lines (blank lines are skipped), P to punch, and F for focus mode. There are also dedicated one-press punches: previous line, two lines, or an exact 5, 10, 20, or 30 seconds of pre-roll, without ever touching the dropdown. Every binding is customizable: click a key, press the new combo.
Read the way you like
- The karaoke word highlight that follows your voice can now be switched off if it distracts you. Line tracking keeps working underneath.
- The 3-2-1 countdowns for recording and punch-back are now separate toggles. Turn either off to start instantly.
- Escape cancels a countdown before anything is overwritten, and exits focus mode.
- Focus mode goes properly full screen on the desktop app: no title bar, no scrollbars, just the script and the wave.
Quieter reliability work
Every screen now has honest loading, empty, and error states. If one panel ever fails, it says so in its own corner while the rest of the app keeps working, and your projects and audio stay safe either way. The desktop app also traded the stock Windows title bar for a slim integrated one that matches the rest of the tool.
Where to get it
The web app at medrak-recorder.com has all of this today. Desktop users get the same features plus the new window chrome in the current desktop build. Paste a script, arm the first line, and try clicking the wave. It will feel familiar the moment you do.