Press kit — Mini Audition

Facts

Name: Mini Audition
Developer: Oleh Khomei, an independent developer in Ukraine
Price: Free: no account, ads, tracking or in-app purchases
Version: 6.2 (changelog)
Download: Disk image (9.5 MB), signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple
Requires: macOS 15 or later, Apple silicon or Intel; transcription needs macOS 26, titles and summaries Apple Intelligence
Languages: English, Ukrainian
Built with: Swift 6, SwiftUI and AppKit, Metal, AVFoundation; no web views
Website: mini-audition.com
Contact: [email protected]

About

Mini Audition is a free, native audio editor for the Mac: a small, fast alternative to a full DAW for listening, cutting, recording and mixing.

Mini Audition is a free audio editor for the Mac, a 7 MB download written natively in Swift. Its Metal-drawn waveform zooms smoothly from a whole album down to single samples, with a spectrogram a keystroke away. Tracks can be cut, recorded and run through 14 built-in effects or the Mac's Audio Unit plugins with live preview, or arranged on a multitrack timeline with buses, a mixer and mixdown. On Apple silicon, it splits a song into stems. Transcripts, titles, summaries and topic regions come from Apple's on-device speech recognition and Apple Intelligence, so audio never leaves the Mac. A session keeps every track, edit and mix in one file, with a snapshot at every save. There's no account, no ads and no tracking.

Highlights

Metal waveform and spectrogram: smooth zoom from hours to individual samples
Multitrack timeline: clips with fades and crossfades, coloured buses with effect chains and sends, volume and balance automation, delay compensation, mixdown with effect tails
14 effects with presets and live preview: parametric EQ, compressor, limiter, gate, noise reduction, saturation, distortion, chorus, flanger, phaser, delay, reverb, pitch shifter and a spectrum analyzer
Repair: noise reduction from a noise print, and spectral editing to lower, remove or fill in a band of frequencies drawn on the spectrogram
Delivery: a loudness report with true peak and loudness range against streaming, podcast and broadcast specs; export to WAV, AIFF, FLAC and AAC with dither, rate conversion, tags and cover art, and Broadcast WAV info, and to MP3 with LAME installed; batch processing of whole folders
Audio Unit plugins on tracks and in the mixer, with their own windows; each runs in its own process, and sessions keep their settings
Stem separation into vocals, drums, bass and the rest with Meta's Demucs, on the Mac's GPU (Apple silicon), lined up on lanes
Recording with a live waveform, also onto a new lane while the mix plays, lined up with what you heard
On-device transcription with clickable timestamps; title, summary and regions by topic from Apple Intelligence
Sessions in one file, with a snapshot (and a picture of the window) at every save; Quick Look previews in Finder
Loudness in LUFS, normalize to streaming targets, A/B switching, 0.5×–2× speed at the same pitch, export to WAV, AIFF and AAC

Images and video

Free to use in coverage of Mini Audition. Screenshots are 2400 px wide on transparency; larger ones on request.

The developer

Oleh Khomei is a software developer in Ukraine. He made Mini Audition for himself, to audition and edit audio without opening a full DAW, and gives it away free. varyform.info