Preferences & log location
Phonalyser never writes inside its install directory (a packaged
.app, Program Files, or a system package
is read-only). Preferences and logs live in the per-user location for
each OS:
| OS | Preferences | Logs |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | %APPDATA%\Phonalyser\ | %APPDATA%\Phonalyser\logs\ |
| macOS | ~/Library/Application Support/Phonalyser/ | ~/Library/Application Support/Phonalyser/logs/ |
| Linux | $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Phonalyser (or ~/.config/Phonalyser) | /var/log/phonalyser when writable, otherwise …/Phonalyser/logs |
Override the base directory with -Dapp.data.dir=<path>.
Theory of operation. How each module works
inside — coherent averaging, triggering, deconvolution, DAC
pre-distortion, notch tuning — is documented in the app's built-in help
(Help ▸ Show help ▸ Theory of operation) and in the
ALGORITHMS.md engineering catalogue
on GitHub.