MidiStickers has released version 1.3 of its music education software, MidiStickers Pro.

The update introduces a new Lessons & Exercises hub with more than 30 textual lessons, a new Sight Reading Trainer based on Georges Dandelot's method, as well as dozens of new exercises and UI improvements.

MidiStickers Pro is a desktop music education application for Windows and macOS that combines real-time MIDI visualization with interactive learning tools and exercises. It can display notation, chord symbols, Roman numerals, figured bass, harmonic functions as well as analyse MIDI files. Its learning content features lessons and exercises for music reading, scales, chords, progressions and other areas of musicianship.

Highlights of v1.3:

• New Lessons & Exercises hub: 30+ structured lessons combining concise theoretical explanations with interactive exercises.
• New Sight Reading Trainer: 60+ exercises for developing fluency in reading notes across the staff, inspired by Georges Dandelot's classic method for the study of musical clefs.
• Dozens of new exercises covering chord voicings, chord progressions, modes and scales.
• Improved Auto-Accompaniment: new interface and built-in jazz standards and exercises for practice in all 12 keys.
• Progression Trainer improvements: auto-accompaniment is now available for all progressions.
• New Italian localization, bringing MIDIStickers to seven languages.
• Workflow improvements: easier controls and other usability refinements.
• MIDI settings are now saved between sessions.
• Improved tutorials interface.

With v1.3, MIDIStickers expands its focus from individual trainers and visualization tools toward a more integrated learning environment, connecting theoretical explanations directly with practical exercises, another step forward in the longer-term goal of turning MIDIStickers into a complete interactive textbook and workbook for music theory and harmony.

MidiStickers Pro is available for Windows and macOS as a $59 one-time purchase, with free content updates included.

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Muse Group has announced the release of Audacity 4, a major new version of their open-source audio editor. The new version redesigns the application's editing workflow, refreshes its interface and lays the groundwork for more in-depth product development in the future.

First released in 2000, Audacity is now used by millions of creators worldwide thanks to its free, cross-platform and open-source approach. Rather than reinventing the familiar app, Audacity 4 focuses on improving the way people work within the editor. Existing keyboard shortcuts remain available, projects created in Audacity 3 open normally, and the familiar layout of tracks and timeline has been preserved. At the same time, nearly every aspect of the editing experience has been revisited.

Although Audacity 4 represents the project's largest redesign in years. The release also represents another step in Muse Group's strategy of building a connected ecosystem for music and audio creators. With tighter integration between Audacity and audio.com, the company aims to create a more seamless experience for those who wish to share their music with the public.

Audacity has been helping creators record and edit audio for more than 25 years, and our goal with version 4 was to prepare it for the next 25. At Muse Group, we're always looking ahead at how technology can help creativity. It was important for us to bring one of the world's most iconic audio editors into the new era. We are not changing what creators love about Audacity, but giving it the modern architecture needed to support the intelligent tools and connected workflows of the future.

Audacity 4 remains free and open source

The project is developed by a core team supported by contributors from the wider open-source community, whose bug reports, translations, code contributions and feedback continue to shape its development. The full official version of Audacity 4 is available at audacityteam.org/download or via MuseHub, Muse Group's music and audio software marketplace.

New in Audacity 4

The heart of the update: a redesigned clip editing workflow

One of the biggest changes in Audacity 4 is its redesigned clip editing workflow. Clips can now overlap, multiple clips can be selected and edited together, and related clips can be grouped and moved as a single object. Editing is fully non-destructive, allowing users to recover trimmed audio simply by extending a clip. Users can also choose how deleting audio affects the rest of a project, with ripple editing options. These changes provide more flexibility for arranging complex projects.

New and updated editing tools

Audacity 4 also expands its editing toolkit. A dedicated Split tool, one of the community's most requested features, makes it faster to divide recordings at the playhead across one or multiple tracks. Clip envelopes bring volume automation directly into clips, allowing users to create fades and adjust volume without permanently altering the original recording. Built-in effects have been redesigned with updated interfaces while retaining their existing functionality, and the application continues to support real-time effects as well as VST3, Audio Unit and LV2 plug-ins.

A new way to organize projects

Audacity 4 introduces new ways for users to organize their work. For the first time, the application includes a dedicated home screen where users can access both local projects and cloud projects stored on audio.com. Projects are displayed as visual thumbnails rather than filenames, making them easier to browse and manage. The home screen is also designed to become a hub for tutorials and other learning resources. Alongside it, the new Workspaces feature lets users create customized interface layouts for different types of work, making it easy to switch between podcast editing, music production or audio restoration without reconfiguring the application each time.

Visual redesign and user interface update

Alongside the editing workflow, Audacity 4 introduces its most extensive visual redesign to date. The toolbar and track controls have been reorganized, playback and recording meters have been updated, and navigation has been simplified with an always-visible playhead and smoother panning and zooming. The application also includes light and dark themes, customizable accent colours and an improved high-contrast mode.

Video introduction

Video introduction of the update is available here

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artcode has released version 2.0 of artcode DAW, a music production application for macOS and Windows. This version adds hosting for third-party VST3 plugins and a Windows build, and brings the application's local audio generation to Windows.

VST3 Plugin Hosting

VST3 plugins load as instruments or as effects. The standard install locations are scanned at startup, including plugins placed inside a vendor's own subfolder:

• The plugin's own interface opens and works as normal.
• MIDI learn maps a plugin's parameters to a controller.
• Plugins are included when the project is exported, so nothing needs to be frozen or bounced first.
• Scanning runs in a separate process, so a plugin that crashes during scanning does not take the application down.
• Plugins that fail to load are listed with the reason.

Windows Support

• Windows 10 (64-bit) or later, with the same feature set as the macOS build.
• Project files (.artcode) are interchangeable between the two.

Audio generation guided by the user's performance

artcode DAW passes the user's own material to the generative model rather than a text prompt. The user selects a range of bars; artcode performs them with its built-in instruments and supplies that as the guide, together with the key, scale, tempo and time signature. What returns is audio that follows those chords and that melody.

The user chooses which tracks the model listens to, and how closely the result should follow them. This was macOS only in version 1.0 and now runs on Windows as well, where it requires an NVIDIA GPU.

Other features:

• Seven instruments, including a Japanese singing-voice synth, a sampler and a 16-pad drum sampler.
• A full effects rack with a vocoder, pitch correction and sidechain ducking.
• Chords derived from a melody the user plays in, with bass, drums and a song structure built around it. Chords are chosen by how they lead into one another rather than by fitting each bar in isolation.
• Stem separation into four or six parts.
• Magenta models bundled and running offline.

Price & Availability

artcode DAW 2.0 is available now for USD 79. Owners of version 1.0 update at no cost.

artcode DAW 2.0 requires macOS 12 or later on Apple Silicon; Windows 10 (64-bit) or later. Version 2.0 does not run on Intel Macs, and version 1.0 remains available for those users.

The audio generation and stem separation models are fetched from within the application (about 11 GB) and are not required to use artcode DAW.

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tokyomeltdown has released LUFSBar Pro, a macOS application that hosts up to five Audio Unit effects on the system audio and measures the result to EBU R128 / ITU-R BS.1770.

Both the inserts and the meter run on the system audio path through Core Audio process taps, so no virtual audio device is required and nothing has to be routed. Because the meter reads the output of the chain rather than the source, the effect of a chain appears as M / S / I LUFS and True Peak rather than as a spectrum. Targets for Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube and R128 sit underneath the reading, alongside the distance from a saved reference.

With the audio path enabled, the Mac's output device can be changed mid-playback while a DAW is running, without opening the DAW's playback engine settings or reopening the session. Measurement can be narrowed to a single application or a single output device.

The reading is displayed in the notch, or in a floating window on Macs without one. Measurement is computed with libebur128.

LUFSBar Pro requires macOS 14.4 or later, runs natively on Apple silicon and Intel, and is signed and notarized. It costs $12 as a one-time purchase covering up to five Macs, with a 14-day trial that has every feature and no watermark.

A free, MIT-licensed version with the same meter and no inserts remains available.

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Paddock IV has introduced a free Solo plan for Stage Mate, its chord-chart editor, setlist planner and performance app for solo musicians, duos and bands. The plan became available on 14 August 2026.

The Solo plan includes the full song editor, show and setlist planning, the performance scroller, and unlimited songs and shows. It is free to use and does not require a credit card.

Stage Mate's song editor treats chords and lyrics as structured, visual content rather than a plain-text document. Musicians can import ordinary chord sheets or ChordPro songs, position chords precisely above lyrics, and edit lyrics without losing chord alignment. Complete songs can be transposed and annotated with rehearsal or performance instructions.

Saved songs can be arranged into shows containing ordered sets, with song durations and calculated running times. The same songs and shows can then be used for individual rehearsal and performance, both online and offline. The performance view provides count-ins and song-timed scrolling that changes speed throughout a song to keep the current section on screen.

Duo and Band plans add performer-specific features and Live Stage synchronisation. One phone, tablet or computer leads while connected devices instantly update to match the leader's show, song, count-in, playback state and scroll position. Only the leader needs a Stage Mate account; other performers can join by scanning an invitation QR code.

The paid plans also provide vocal assignments and lyric highlighting, along with individual transpositions and instructions for different performers.

Pricing & Availability

Stage Mate is available now as a web application for phones, tablets and computers. Solo is free. Duo supports two synchronised devices for US$6 per month, while Band supports up to ten devices for US$10 per month. Duo and Band include a 30-day free trial with no credit card required.

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rncbc.org has announced the (northern) Late-Summer'26 release of Qtractor version 1.6.3, and the Vee One Suite version 1.4.3 of old-school software instruments, for GNU/Linux.

Changes for this Qtractor release:

• Fix incorrect audio clip offset after tempo change and Automatic time-stretching is in effect.
• VST3 Plug-ins: make sure initialization and setup are done in correct order; add IDataExchangeHandler and refactor IRunLoop interfaces as singleton instances; connect processor/controller via ConnectionProxy wrappers.
• Updated to VST3 SDK v3.8.1.build.84.
• Possible fix to incorrect audio clips offsets when undo/redoing tempo changes.
• Plugin latency/delay compensation is now opted in to audio buses (cf. View/Buses... /Input, Output Plugins/Latency compensation).
• Plugins are now added/inserted *after* the current selected one and appended to the list if none is actually selected as before.
• Fixed an ugly old bug manifesting in MIDI instrument plug-in's dedicated audio outputs distorted sound (probably since v0.9.30).
• Updated to CLAP v1.2.10.
• Fixed audio clip waveform display sudden cutoff, under certain circumstances, while recording is engaged.
• LV2 plug-in Patch parameters/properties of the Path type, may now filter on given supported file-types.
• Almost complete rewrite to LV2 Plug-in Worker/Schedule extension regarding multi-instance operation.
• Mitigate an annoyance when drag-and-dropping items across plugin list-views/boxes that are shorter enough in height to overlap the default auto-scrolling margins or are showing less than a couple of items.

See also: Qtractor 1.6.3 - A Late-Summer'26 Release

The Vee One Suite is comprised of four separate, autonomous software instruments, which are:

• Synthv1 - a polyphonic subtractive synthesizer.
• Samplv1 - a polyphonic sampler synthesizer.
• Drumkv1 - a drum-kit sampler synthesizer.
• Padthv1 - a polyphonic additive synthesizer.

All still delivered in dual form:

• A pure stand-alone JACK client with JACK-session, NSM (Non/New Session Management) and both JACK MIDI and ALSA MIDI input support;
• A LV2 instrument plugin.

Changes for the Vee One Suite in this release:

• Fixed an old freezer bug that manifested whenever a MIDI Program Change is issued.
• Vastly improved Bank/Preset management widgets.
• Fixed a terribly old multiple LV2 plug-in instance mess up. (padthv1 only).
• Fixed wrong (Scala) key-map file setter on the Tuning loader.
• Added file-types property to LV2 plug-in Path parameters.
• Opening/loading sample file of an empty element revisited (last fix on LV2 Plug-in GUI broke the whole JACK stand-alone element navigation, now fixed). (drumkv1 only).

See also: Vee One Suite 1.4.3 - A Late-Summer'26 Release

Both Qtractor and the Vee One Suite are free, open-source Linux Audio software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or later.

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ProSound has released AudioScout, a standalone sound-effects workflow application for macOS and Windows designed to speed up searching, auditioning and delivering sounds from large local SFX libraries.

AudioScout was developed around a simple post-production workflow: search → audition → queue → project.

Users can index sound libraries stored on local or external drives, search across them by keyword, audition results immediately with keyboard navigation, browse individual folders and subfolders, and collect selected sounds in an export queue.

Selected files can be exported to any project folder. AudioScout also includes a Pro Tools workflow that can send selected sounds directly into a compatible Pro Tools session.

Unlike subscription-based sound-library platforms, AudioScout does not require an account, cloud storage or a proprietary sound ecosystem. Existing sound libraries remain on the user's own drives.

Main features include:

• Fast local and external-drive SFX search.
• Instant keyboard auditioning.
• Folder and subfolder browsing.
• Queue-based selection and export.
• Pro Tools workflow integration.
• External free SFX source discovery.
• Offline operation.
• No account or subscription required.

Pricing & Availability

AudioScout 1.0 is available now for macOS and Windows. The introductory price is $10 USD as a one-time purchase.

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Spongefork has announced the release of ShadowTag 2.0, a major release of its audio metadata editor for macOS. Version 2.0 rebuilds how libraries are stored so large collections open, search, and launch noticeably faster; introduces Projects for keeping separate sets of playlists side by side; extends format coverage to Matroska, WebM, Opus, Vorbis, and 64-bit WAV; imports playlists directly from Apple Music; and adds file-level operations for renaming, duplicating, locking, and trashing the underlying media from inside the app.

ShadowTag reads and writes every major audio metadata standard -- ID3v2, Vorbis Comments, MP4 atoms, BEXT, iXML, XMP, and UCS (Universal Category System) -- in a single application, and organizes files into playlists without moving or duplicating them on disk.

What's new in 2.0:

• Library storage has been rebuilt to be much faster and more robust. Existing playlists convert on first launch.
• Projects. Separate sets of playlists you can switch between a show, a client, a sample library, a personal archive instead of one ever-growing list. Playlists can be moved or copied between them.
• Matroska and WebM (.mkv, .mka, .webm) are supported end to end: tags and ratings read and written, playback, waveforms, filmstrips, conversion.
• RF64 and BW64 are read and tagged like any other WAV, and long conversions write as RF64, so there's no 4 GB ceiling on exports.
• Opus and Vorbis added as output formats.
• Files with multiple audio tracks get a track selector.
• Start timecode is read and applied to the ruler and transport, and the transport readout switches between real time and timecode.
• File-level operations. Rename, duplicate, lock and move to trash the actual files from a playlist, all undoable. If a file changes on disk while you have unsaved edits, a conflict window lists everything affected so you can decide what to keep.
• Import from Apple Music. Reads your Music library through Apple's read-only iTunesLibrary framework and rebuilds the playlists inside ShadowTag, folders arriving as groups. Nothing is copied, moved or written back.

How licensing works:

ShadowTag Pro is a one-time $99 purchase and is the full application writing metadata to files, batch audio conversion, CSV export, renaming to the UCS filename convention, and multiple projects.

Without Pro the app is free, and still a complete player and organizer: playlists, groups, full-text search, Apple Music import, and on-device batch analysis for loudness, BPM, musical key and Universal Category System detection no time limit, no file-count cap, no nag.

ShadowTag Pro requires macOS 14.6 or later. It's available in 11 languages.

Release notes: spongefork.com/shadowtag/releasenotes

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Initial Audio has released Difro Melody AI, a standalone AI melody generator that runs entirely on the user's machine.

Unlike cloud MIDI tools that send notes to a remote API, Difro uses a local VAE + Transformer model to generate and re-imagine MIDI in real time on CPU, or on GPU when a compatible card is available. No account, no cloud queue, no per-generation API bill.

The workflow is built for producers who already think in piano-roll terms. Hit record and play live into the piano roll, or drop in an existing MIDI clip. Difro analyses the musical DNA — melody, rhythm, harmony — and writes variations bar by bar. No MIDI file is required to start. Finished ideas drag straight into a DAW as MIDI, or bounce to a WAV loop via Render to WAV.

First Look

A walkthrough of the local AI co-producer, from live recording to dragging MIDI into a DAW:

YouTube.com/watch?v=WpfLTH8NHq8

How it works

Open the app, pick a prompt model, play or drop MIDI, then drag the result into Ableton, FL Studio, Logic, or Cubase:

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Initial Audio says Difro is not a randomizer. It keeps the DNA of the original idea while writing something new. Record live or drag in chords / an old melody, then use the Creativity Slider to decide how far the model should take it:

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Hit Render to WAV and Difro bounces the generated melody to an audio loop. Drag the WAV to the desktop, a folder, or straight into a DAW as a sample. Prefer MIDI? Click the output MIDI clip directly below the Render to WAV button and drag that out instead.

Initial Audio says that what sets it apart from typical "AI MIDI" utilities is that the model is not frozen. After a generation, the user can edit the output in the piano roll and rate it with a happy or sad face. Positive ratings — including ratings of edited MIDI — create a personal User Model: a copy of the original network that is nudged toward what that producer actually wants. Factory model and User Model can be switched at any time. If the User Model goes too far, it can be deleted from the menu (Delete User Feedback Model).

Difro ships with 10 prompt models built from 140+ MIDI files, with more models planned. The Pro version can also build custom prompt models from a folder of the user's own MIDI, with no limit on how many files go in. Custom models stay 100% local, can be assigned a SourceLab preset, and can be shared as folders.

A built-in SourceLab Light engine (80+ presets) lets users audition ideas without loading an external instrument. Serum, Kontakt, Omnisphere and other instruments can still be hosted inside Difro (VST3 on Windows, Audio Units on macOS) so new melodies can be previewed with the user's own presets before they hit the DAW.

GPU acceleration is optional. Compatible NVIDIA GPUs on Windows and Apple silicon GPUs on Mac can be selected from a CPU/GPU switch in the top-right corner. If no supported GPU is found Difro stays in CPU mode. Everything stays offline.

Under the hood, a VAE encodes the input MIDI into a latent map of rhythm, contour, and harmonic movement. A Transformer then predicts the next note — the same idea as an LLM, but for MIDI. Initial Audio describes it as a locally running MIDI GPT:

YouTube.com/watch?v=Buc_QKDVF6c

Features

• Local VAE + Transformer MIDI generation — 100% offline.
• Record live into the piano roll, or drop in MIDI — no MIDI file required to start.
• ReImagine variations with a Creativity Slider.
• Personal User Model: rate output (including edited MIDI) so the AI learns your taste.
• Switch between Original and User Model; delete the User Model anytime.
• 10 prompt models based on 140+ MIDI files (more to follow).
• Create custom prompt models from your own MIDI (Pro) — no file-count limit.
• Render to WAV and drag loops or MIDI into your DAW.
• Built-in SourceLab Light with 80+ presets.
• Host VST3 plugins on Windows, Audio Units on macOS.
• CPU or GPU: NVIDIA on Windows, Apple silicon on Mac.
• Multiple skins included.

Pricing & Availability

Difro Melody AI Pro is a one-time purchase at $49 (regular $69), including unlimited generations, custom models, royalty-free output, and lifetime updates.

A free version is available for Windows and macOS (50 generations per month, no credit card): Download for Windows / Download for macOS.

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Waveroom Mastering is a browser-based audio finishing service for independent artists, producers, remixers and content creators. It provides a streamlined workflow for preparing music without requiring a desktop installation and can be used directly from a supported web browser.

Rather than applying a fixed volume boost, Waveroom analyses integrated loudness, peak level, True Peak, RMS, dynamic range and frequency balance before processing. It then applies adaptive EQ, dynamics control, stereo imaging and transparent limiting according to the characteristics of each track. The goal is to produce a clearer and more consistent result while protecting headroom and preserving the character of the original mix.

Waveroom is designed for both speed and flexibility. Creators can upload up to five tracks in one batch, with each track analysed and processed individually. Five mastering directions — Natural, Streaming, Punch & Electronic, Warm & Analog and Loud — can be auditioned before export, making it easier to choose an appropriate mastering direction for each track.

Users can compare the original and processed versions using A/B playback, then export finished files in AIFF, FLAC, WAV or MP3 format. Batch results can also be downloaded together, reducing repetitive track-by-track setup and export steps.

Waveroom also includes vocal removal and stem separation where supported, which can be useful for remix preparation, practice tracks and content production. Where supported by the browser and workflow, audio processing can take place locally on the user's device.

The first three mastering tracks are free. A 10-track pass is available for $4.99.

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Geranium Production has released INS Browser for Live, a standalone MIDI utility for macOS and Windows designed to make hardware synthesizer presets easier to browse, search, audition and recall from Ableton Live.

INS Browser for Live reads Cakewalk Instrument Definition (.ins) files and converts their Bank, Sub-Bank and Program information into named, searchable preset libraries. Users can search for a sound by name, select it and audition it directly on a connected MIDI instrument, rather than navigating hardware banks by number or repeatedly consulting the synthesizer's manual.

For Ableton Live users, INS Browser for Live displays the corresponding Bank, Sub-Bank and Program values required to recall the selected hardware preset from Live.

Main features:

• Reads Cakewalk Instrument Definition (.ins) files.
• More than 200 ready-to-use Instrument Definitions included.
• Search across thousands of hardware presets by name.
• Direct MIDI preset auditioning.
• Configurable MIDI riffs for automatic auditioning.
• Tempo and transpose controls.
• Favorites and preset renaming.
• Bank / Sub-Bank / Program values for Ableton Live.
• Access to MIDI controller information when documented in the Instrument Definition.
• Open, user-editable text-based .ins format.
• No Max for Live required.

INS Browser for Live is available as a standalone application for Windows (32/64-bit) and macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon).

Price: €29.95.

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Sample Logic has released Animation Station Pro, a virtual instrument plugin developed in partnership with Pitch Innovations.

Animation Station Pro hosts VST3 and Audio Unit instruments and effects inside itself and drives them with two animation engines:

1. The MIDI Animation engine is the step sequencer and arpeggiator from Animation Station 2.0, with four-pattern ABCD switching, per-step control over rate, velocity, duration, transpose and stutter, sequences of up to 64 steps, and drag-and-drop MIDI export.
2. The FX Animation engine is new: up to six independent animations, each configurable as a step sequencer, LFO or macro control, and assignable to any parameter of a hosted plugin using a learn function.

Because plugins are hosted internally, VST3 instruments and effects can be played inside DAWs that load only Audio Units, including Logic Pro.

A Channel Preset stores the hosted instrument, the hosted effect, the MIDI animation, the FX animations and all learn assignments as a single recallable preset.

Animation Station Pro includes over 900 MIDI and FX animation presets, plus the Breaking Borders collection designed by Ben Aylon, which carries over from Animation Station 2.0.

Pricing & Availability

Animation Station PRO is available now at an introductory price of $89, reduced from the regular price of $119, until 14 September 2026.

Formats and requirements:

• VST3, Audio Unit, AAX and standalone application.
• macOS 10.13 or later, 64-bit Intel or Apple Silicon, 6 GB RAM.
• Windows 10 or later, 64-bit, 6 GB RAM.
• 35 MB disk space.
• Hosts the user's own VST3 and Audio Unit plugins; the included Plug-in Manager scans and populates them.

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Nomz Studios has brought StemMaster to macOS, extending the stem-based mixing and mastering application beyond Windows to Apple Silicon. The Mac build shipped on August 30 at version 1.1.46. One license key covers both platforms and activates up to three machines in any combination, so existing owners already have Mac access. The Mac build requires macOS 15 or later on Apple Silicon (M1 or newer); Intel Macs and older macOS releases are not supported. It is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

Two updates preceded the port:

• Version 1.1.45 added 24-bit AIFF as a master export option, alongside 24-bit WAV, FLAC, MP3, and dithered 16-bit WAV, added for Mac-side software and habits that expect that wrapper.
• Version 1.1.44 added a Stop button beside the render progress bar, so a master started with the wrong target no longer has to finish rendering before it can be cancelled.

Nomz Studios has also published a free null-test pack (a mix, its stems, and the finished master in 24-bit FLAC) so users can verify the process themselves. Importing the stems at unity and inverting against the original mix drops the residual to -142 dB, according to the company.

Features

• Mixes and masters from individual multitrack stems rather than a stereo bounce.
• Runs on Windows 10/11 and macOS 15+ on Apple Silicon (M1 or later).
• Single license key activates up to three machines in any platform combination.
• Developer ID signed and notarized on macOS.
• Master export formats: 24-bit AIFF, 24-bit WAV, FLAC, MP3, dithered 16-bit WAV.
• Stop button for canceling an in-progress render (added in 1.1.44).
• Default engine runs offline with no account or internet connection required.
• Optional secondary engine uses a user-supplied API key and analyzes measurements, not audio.
• Full Mix stem export for null-testing the master against the original pre-master mix.
• Plain-English log of each mastering decision and the measurement behind it.

Pricing and Availability

StemMaster is available now for $99 as a one-time purchase, with free updates across the 1.x series and activation on up to three machines. It's a standalone application (not a plugin) for Windows 10/11 and macOS 15+ on Apple Silicon. A free demo is available with exports disabled and a periodic tag on mastered playback.

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Sample Logic has released Animation Station Pro at an introductory price of $89, reduced from the regular price of $119, until 14 September 2026.

Animation Station Pro is a virtual instrument plugin that hosts VST3 and Audio Unit instruments and effects inside itself and animates their parameters with step sequencers, LFOs and macros, alongside the MIDI sequencer and arpeggiator carried over from Animation Station 2.0. Because plugins are hosted internally, VST3 instruments and effects can be played in DAWs that load only Audio Units, including Logic Pro. Over 900 MIDI and FX animation presets are included.

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