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.
