ARA Sleuth
Visualize and compare ARA2 host behavior across DAWs.
ARA Sleuth is a free, open-source debug tool for ARA2 plugin developers. It runs as a VST3 plugin, intercepts all ARA API calls from the host, and displays them on a real-time timeline — making undocumented DAW differences visible.
Key Features
- Real-time event timeline with thread-lane visualization and hierarchical spans
- Side-by-side session comparison for cross-DAW analysis
- Auto-analyzed session summary: instance roles, creation order, persistentID format
- Defensive design — never crashes, logs unexpected DAW behavior instead
- Session save/load (JSON) with DAW metadata for offline review
- Category-based event filtering with detailed argument logging