SoundDesk 4+

Virtual Audio Mixer

Loudlab

    • 4.7 • 27 Ratings
    • $39.99

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Description

SoundDesk 5 is the easiest way to turn your Mac into a professional audio mixer!

SoundDesk can be used by audio professionals to mix on the fly, by broadcasters to stream mixed sources, by musicians to record a performance or by anything else that involves mixing or routing digital audio.


ROUTING

All channels can receive any input and send it to any output, master section or auxiliary. Making the routing possibilities of SoundDesk only limited by your devices.

Channels can be either mono, stereo or auxiliary receivers, and you can switch between options at any time.


MIXING

Up to 99x2 input paths, 102x2 output paths and 16x2 Aux sends per channel (pre or post-fader), per desk file.

Each channel is equipped with a DC blocker, a noise or wave generator and a delay unit.

The user can assign names and colours to individual channels.

Built-in PPM meters on all channels and master section.


AU 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 plugins.

Furthermore, SoundDesk includes 16 built-in processing and metering inserts, that take advantage of the cDSP Engine.


cDSP INSERTS INCLUDED

• Compressor
• DeEsser
• Distortion
• Expander
• Gate
• Goniometer
• Graphic EQ
• Leveler
• Maximizer
• RMS and Peak Meter
• Metronome
• Mid-Side Encoder / Decoder
• Parametric EQ
• Reverb
• Spectrograph
• Tube


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

SoundDesk can communicate with the Mackie Control Protocol, HUI Control Protocol and standard CC devices.
The CC mode includes a simple MIDI mapping system designed to ease communications between your devices and SoundDesk.

What’s New

Version 5.0.3

• Conforms to ITU-T BS.1770-5
• Conforms to EBU R 128 (v5)
• New cDSP Maximizer True Peak Option
• Updates cDSP Leveler
• Updates Help Files
• Fixes Crash on Quit Caused by Audio Units
• Other bug fixes & improvements

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Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
27 Ratings

27 Ratings

knerrmit ,

Sleeper app with great support and active development

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, but
it'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.

nytimesloverinHongKong ,

I hoped this app existed and it does!

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.

ethode ,

Insanely powerful

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.

App Privacy

The developer, Loudlab, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.