SoundDesk

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