ClutchCut Audio

Pro DAW for Podcasts & Music

Only for Mac

Free · In‑App Purchases

Mac

Now with a built-in royalty-free Music Library, studio-quality mastering with A/B compare, an unattended Batch Podcast Builder, and free cloud voices. ClutchCut Audio is a professional macOS Digital Audio Workstation built for podcasters, audiobook narrators, voiceover artists, and musicians. On-device AI handles transcription, voice isolation, stem separation, mastering, and multilingual text-to-speech — no subscription, no monthly fees, and it works fully offline. A free, optional cloud voice is also available when you want extra quality. PROFESSIONAL TIMELINE • Multi-track timeline with frame-accurate editing • Trim, split, ripple, fade, crossfade with full undo/redo • Snap to beat grid, named markers, loop regions • Automation lanes (volume, pan) • Bus / Aux routing with send effects • Loop recording with takes / comp workflow • Input monitoring during recording BUILT-IN MUSIC LIBRARY • Browse a catalog of royalty-free music — every track free to use • Filter by mood, genre, and length; preview any track before adding • Favorite tracks, save playlists, and add to the timeline in one click AI-POWERED CREATIVE TOOLS • Auto-Silence Removal — clean up dead air in one pass • Auto-Ducking — multi-trigger amplitude-based music ducking • Voice Isolation — offline noise cleanup • Stem Separation — 4-stem CoreML separation (Demucs v2, Open-Unmix) • Beat Detection — downbeat markers • Speech-to-Text Transcription — word-level timestamps via Apple Speech • Pitch Detection — melody-to-MIDI TEXT-TO-SPEECH • Bundled Kokoro CoreML model — 54 on-device voices across English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, and more • Free cloud voice option — higher quality when you have internet; falls back to on-device automatically • System TTS fallback for additional languages • Per-sentence timing source map — click any sentence to seek the playhead • Fix Pronunciation — regenerate a single sentence and splice it back in • Batch Voice Generation — convert dozens of .txt, .md, and .pdf files in the background STUDIO-QUALITY MASTERING • ITU-R BS.1770-4 LUFS metering with K-weighting • Loudness presets for Apple Podcasts (-16 LUFS), Spotify and YouTube (-14 LUFS) • Auto-gain from offline analysis — an exact dB offset, not guesswork • Character presets — Natural, Warm, Bright, Open, Punchy — add presence, air, stereo width, and warmth for a finished sound, not just a loud one • A/B compare Original vs Enhanced with a loudness match, then save a 24-bit mastered WAV • 3-band EQ + true-peak limiter at -1.0 dB MUSIC PRODUCTION • AUv3 third-party plugin hosting with parameter UI • Piano roll with 128-pitch grid and MIDI clip scheduling • Flex Time pitch correction (±24 semitones) and rate adjustment (0.5–2x) • Tone generator — ambient pads, water drops, melodies, and more PODCAST WORKFLOW • Batch Podcast Builder — turn a folder of narration into finished, mastered episodes in one unattended run: music bed, auto-duck, auto-master, and export, with an editable project per episode • First-launch mode picker (Podcast Creator vs. Music / Full DAW) • TTS Source Panel with click-to-seek sentences • Transcript alignment for drift correction on long-form audio • Insert Silence with ripple-all-tracks option EXPORT • WAV, M4A, and MP3 mixdown with format and quality selector • Per-stem export (Separate Tracks) • Mastered .tts.json transcript sidecar for handoff to ClutchCut Video BUILT FOR MAC • 100% native SwiftUI — no Electron, no web wrapper • Apple Silicon optimized (M1, M2, M3, M4) • macOS 15.6 or later • Apple Neural Engine acceleration where supported Part of the ClutchCut Studio family with ClutchCut Shadow (capture) and ClutchCut Video (editor): record in Shadow, polish audio here, finish video in ClutchCut Video via a shared .clutchmeta session. ClutchCut Pro unlocks Auto-Ducking, the Mastering Chain (Character enhancement + A/B compare), Batch Podcast Builder, Batch Voice Generation, M4A/MP3/Separate Tracks export, and Stem Separation. One-time purchase, no subscription.

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ClutchCut Audio 2.0 — the content-production update. BUILT-IN MUSIC LIBRARY Browse, preview, and add royalty-free music straight to your timeline. Filter by mood, genre, and length, favorite tracks, and reuse your own playlists per chapter. Every track is free. STUDIO-QUALITY MASTERING + A/B COMPARE (Pro) Mastering now goes beyond loudness. New Character presets — Natural, Warm, Bright, Open, and Punchy — add real polish: presence and air for detail, stereo width for space, and glue + warmth for body. A new A/B compare (Original vs Enhanced, with a loudness match) lets you hear the improvement and judge tone, not just volume. Save a 24-bit mastered WAV in one click. BATCH PODCAST BUILDER (Pro) Turn a folder of narration into finished episodes in one unattended run — it lays music under each reading, auto-ducks, auto-masters to your loudness target, and exports, with an editable project saved next to every episode. FREE CLOUD VOICES A higher-quality cloud voice is now free — no account, no Pro. Choose "Cloud — free" as the voice source for single clips or a whole batch. It needs internet and falls back to the on-device voice automatically. IMPROVEMENTS - Mastering, Batch Podcast Builder, and Batch Voice Generation are now resizable windows. - Fixed drag-and-drop of audio files onto the timeline. - Projects and recovery now reliably re-open audio files stored outside the app. - Batch Voice Generation can now export M4A as well as WAV.

Version 2.0

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Seller
  • QIANG GAO
Size
  • 224.1 MB
Category
  • Music
Compatibility
Requires macOS 15.6 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 15.6 or later.
Languages
  • English
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
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