Mini Audition
A waveform that keeps up
Drawn with Metal: from a whole album down to individual samples, smoothly, with RMS shading, an overview strip and a spectrogram one keystroke away.
New Mini Audition 6.1: automate the whole mixer →
Hear it. Cut it. Mix it.
A small, fast audio editor for the Mac. Open a pile of tracks, zoom down to single samples, record, arrange them on a multitrack with buses, effects and your own plugins, and bounce a mix — without the weight of a full DAW.
Free · Version 6.2 · macOS 15 or later · Apple silicon and Intel · Signed and notarized
Everything you reach for. Nothing you don't.
Multitrack and mixer
Drag tracks onto lanes, trim, split and crossfade clips, route them through coloured buses with effect chains and sends, draw volume and balance automation, then mix down to a new track.
Your plugins, too
The Audio Units on your Mac — Apple's and everyone else's — go on a track or into the mixer, with their own windows. Each runs in its own process: if one crashes, the editor carries on.
Effects you can hear
Parametric EQ, compressor, limiter, gate, delay, chorus, reverb and more, with presets and a live preview while it plays. Bypass any of them to compare.
Split a song into stems
Vocals, drums, bass and the rest, pulled apart on your Mac's GPU and lined up on lanes — for a remix, a karaoke track or practice. Apple silicon.
Record in place
A live waveform as you record, or a take straight onto a new lane while the mix plays — lined up with what you heard.
Transcripts, on device
Transcribe in 47 languages with clickable timestamps; get a title, a summary and regions by topic from Apple Intelligence. Nothing leaves your Mac.
Sessions with a memory
One file with every track, edit and mix — and a snapshot at every save, with a picture of the window, to go back to any earlier state.
Small app. Serious insides.
- Download
- 9.5 MB
- Built-in effects
- 14
- LanguagesAI
- 15
- Snapshots per session
- ∞
- Accounts, ads, trackers
- 0
Metal all the way down
The waveform, the spectrogram (its FFT included) and the spectrum analyzer are GPU shaders, so zooming from hours down to single samples stays smooth.
Real-time audio, done right
Playback streams from memory through AVAudioSourceNode. The render thread never locks or allocates; effects and meters hand over lock-free.
In step with your ears
Meters, the analyzer and recorded takes are lined up with the output's latency — even the quarter second AirPods add.
Plugins at arm's length
Audio Units load out of process — old AUv2 ones too — so a crashing plugin can't take the editor down. A session keeps each one's own fullState.
Delay compensation
When an effect plays late, the mixer holds every other path back to match, so buses meet at Master in time and a mixdown lines up to the sample.
Demucs on the GPU
Stem separation runs Meta's Demucs model on MLX: a separate download, fetched the first time you need it, pinned and checked before it runs.
Native, nothing else
Swift 6 with strict concurrency, SwiftUI and AppKit. No Electron, no web views, no runtime to install. One universal app for Apple silicon and Intel.
Private by design
Transcripts come from Apple's on-device speech recognition, summaries from Apple Intelligence's on-device model. Your audio stays on your Mac.
Originals stay untouched
Edits are kept as lossless 32-bit float until you export, and every edit — audio, markers, the mix — can be undone.
And more…
- Spectrogram on the GPU
- Spectral editing
- Noise reduction
- Zero-crossing snapping
- Loudness in LUFS
- True peak and loudness range
- Loudness report for delivery specs
- Batch processing
- Normalize to −14 LUFS
- A/B track switching
- 0.5×–2× speed, same pitch
- Trim silence
- Export WAV, AIFF, FLAC, AAC, MP3
- Broadcast WAV
- Tags and cover art
- Dither and sample rate conversion
- Drag a selection to Finder
- Export every region
- Markers and named regions
- Mix markers
- Spectrum Analyzer
- Saturation
- Distortion
- Limiter
- Noise Gate
- Phaser
- Flanger
- Pitch Shifter
- Clean pitch shifting
- Equal-power crossfades
- Buses with effect chains
- Sends to shared buses
- Volume and balance automation
- Delay compensation
- Mixdown with effect tails
- Quick Look previews
- AirPods and media keys
- Find moved files
- Incognito launch (⇧)
- Undo for everything
- 13 waveform themes
Free. Made for myself
Mini Audition costs nothing, has no account, no ads and no tracking. If it saves you time, a coffee keeps the updates coming.