Bortevekk Studio Pro · work in progress

A DAW built for arranging and mixing, the way we work.

Bortevekk Studio Pro is the music production software we are building for our own studio: a fast arrangement view for cutting and moving recordings, and a mixer with buses, sends and studio-grade processing on every channel.

Native Mac app · Apple Silicon · No download yet

Bortevekk Studio Pro with a four-track demo song in the arrangement view, a sample browser on the left and the mixer with two buses below
Work in progress. Bortevekk Studio Pro is in early development and there is no download yet. The arrangement view, the mixer and the audio engine are running; recording, a clip launcher and plug-in support are next. We will publish a beta here when it is ready for real sessions.
Features

What it does today

Arrangement

Drag clips between tracks, copy with Alt, trim from either edge, draw fades from the corners, split at the marker and duplicate. Snapping follows your zoom level, and every edit can be undone.

Non-destructive audio

Clips are windows onto your recordings, so cutting and trimming never change the audio files. Waveforms show the clip's gain and fades as you hear them.

Mixer, buses and sends

Every channel has pan, stereo width, phase, and up to eight pre- or post-fader sends. Buses can feed other buses, and the routing menus never offer a connection that would make a feedback loop. Solo keeps the whole signal path audible.

Channel EQ and compressor

An equaliser on every channel, edited by dragging points on its curve, and a compressor with a gain-reduction meter. A higher-precision EQ and a compressor with several characters are being built now.

Sample browser

Point it at a folder of samples, click a file to hear it, and drag it onto a track. Files can also be dropped straight from Finder: WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3, Ogg and M4A.

Export

Render the mix to a 32-bit float WAV file. Rendering runs offline, so the export does not depend on how fast your computer plays back.

Roadmap

What's next

NowA high-precision channel EQ with more bands and filters, and a compressor with several characters, from clean digital to vintage opto.
NextRecording from your audio interface, with punch-in and takes.
ThenA clip launcher for building ideas, more effects (reverb, delay, saturation), automation, and plug-in support.