SoundDesk 5 is the easiest way to turn your Mac into a professional audio mixer!
SoundDesk can be used by audio engineers to mix and route on the fly, by broadcasters to stream mixed sources, by musicians to multitrack record a live performance, or for anything else that involves mixing and routing digital audio.
You can also load your favorite Virtual Instruments or use it as a MIDI router with SoundDesk’s pass-through features.
ROUTING & MIXING
• Route and mix audio from any sound source, including other applications.
• All channels can receive any input and send it to any output, auxiliary, I/O bus, or master section.
• Channels can be configured as mono, stereo, auxiliary receivers, or MIDI instruments, allowing users to switch between these options seamlessly.
• SoundDesk offers up to 99 x 2 inputs, 102 x 2 outputs, 16 x 2 auxiliary sends (pre or post-fader), and 32 I/O busses, per desk.
• Each channel is equipped with a DC blocker, a noise or wave generator, and a delay unit.
• Built-in EBU/PPM meters on all channels and the master section.
• The user can assign names and colours to individual channels and much more…
PLUGIN HOST
SoundDesk has up to 8 Audio Unit slots on every channel and up to 12 on the master section so that you can use your favourite third-party sound effects and virtual instruments.
Furthermore, SoundDesk includes 16 built-in processing and metering inserts that take advantage of the cDSP Engine.
INCLUDED PLUGINS:
• Compressor
• De-Esser
• Distortion
• Expander
• Gate
• Goniometer
• Graphic EQ
• Leveler
• Maximizer
• RMS and Peak Meter
• Metronome
• Mid-Side Encoder / Decoder
• Parametric EQ
• Reverb
• Spectrograph
• Tube
ALL-IN-ONE DEVICE
SoundDesk can consolidate all your audio devices into a single interface, enabling you to utilize them simultaneously.
Starting with macOS 14.5 or later, you can also stream audio from other applications directly from the All-in-One.
Simply open the All-in-One window and add the devices and applications you need; SoundDesk will handle the rest.
AUDIO RECORDING
SoundDesk can record in multitrack mode (pre or post-processing) and master section mode (pre or post-processing).
Recordings can be exported as AIFF, WAVE, FLAC, CAF, Sound Designer II, NeXT/Sun, and Sound Forge W64 Audio Files (Linear PCM).
MIDI CONTROL SURFACES
SoundDesk can communicate with the Mackie Control Protocol, HUI Control Protocol, and standard Continuous Controllers (CC) devices.
The CC mode has a user-friendly MIDI mapping system that makes it easy to connect your devices to SoundDesk.
OTHER FEATURES
• Inter-App MIDI
• State Recovery
• Easy to Use Help Documents
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Sleeper app with great support and active development
knerrmit
I've been testing this app for awhile and am amazed at what it can do. I'm really shocked there is not more activity in the reviews. Lots of slots for plugins, but it's also a great host for Waves StudioRack which can chain and mix multiple plugins as well. It seems to be geared more toward live streaming, but you could mix live events with it as well. It could definitely benefit from some tweaks to the interface for the live audio use case, butit's being actively developed and version 5 has lot's of great features coming. I'm sure I sound like a shill, but I really just want to encourage people to give it a shot, and in turn, encourage the developer, LoudLabs, to push its capabilites even further.
I hoped this app existed and it does!
nytimesloverinHongKong
Coming from an overpriced UAD sound card I wanted something similar to its "Console" but compatible with any soundcard and that's exactly what this is. Moreover, I want to be liberated from those crazy priced plug-ins and use any AU plugin for sound design and this delivers!The good news is this is that app I hoped existed but far superior. In fact, it's far better than Console as it is Mac like, has a far better UI design, is very stable thus far, very intuitive, has all the power I need and most importantly is not constantly kernel panicing my M1 like UAD's solutions were.
Insanely powerful
ethode
I really did NOT expect this app to be this good. It's insane the number of features it has. I am using this to mix live drums (8 mics) from my Behringer Audio Interface before sending to the house. This way when I travel, no matter how competant (or not) the house audio engineer is, I can send a signal I know sounds right.
Responsive developer -- great improvement
MangledBabyDucks
Initially I had a number of problems getting SoundDesk to work in my environment, i.e. many inputs and output spanning 4 different interfaces, all from different vendors. I also do a lot with mono chnnels and need multiple buses to allow partial mixing in real-time. I reported my issues and all of them were fixed. It is working great now. My only concern is the lack of documentation with even the simplest "how to". Yes, I was able to figure it out ... after the bugs were fixed. Guessing at how something works when there are other things stopping things from working. This is the reason for the four stars instead of 5. Regardless, this software definitely has potential for a 5-star rating and it seems to be heading in that direction.
• Bug fixes and improvements.
Version 5.2.8
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