Press dossier · SoundEdit

An audio editor you can play.

SoundEdit is Audiofile Engineering’s new audio editor for the Mac, from the makers of Wave Editor and Sample Manager. Any sound plays as an instrument from the keys and pads, the Library opens every folder of sounds you own, and SoundEdit Pro measures each one and makes it ready for any sampler. No subscription.

SoundEdit on Mac playing a loop cut into seventeen slices on pads, with scope, goniometer and EQ, against the North Shore of Lake Superior

Story brief

What the makers of Wave Editor built next.

Since 2004, Audiofile Engineering has made audio software for the Mac, including Wave Editor, Sample Manager, Triumph, Myriad and Loop Editor. SoundEdit is what the studio built next: an audio editor you play like an instrument.

Load a sound and it plays across the octaves from a MIDI keyboard or the computer keys. Chop it and the slices land on keys and pads. Ingredients layer sounds live over the untouched original, eight Audio Unit slots play on every file, and the file’s History keeps every step, after quit too.

SoundEdit 1.1 brings the Library: any folder of sounds, nothing imported, heard from the keyboard. And SoundEdit Pro, with a 14-day trial of its own, measures each sound where it sits, plays loops in your tempo and key, writes fixes into the files themselves, runs recipes over whole folders and makes kits for the sampler on your desk.

Turn on Settings ▸ Agent, and the AI agent you already use, in Claude or any MCP client, works in SoundEdit while you watch and listen.

In brief

What SoundEdit does.

Any sound plays as an instrument, polyphonically, from the computer keys or a MIDI keyboard. Chopped, its slices land on keys and pads.

Records anything the Mac plays: What’s Playing, one app, or any input.

Ingredients play live over the untouched original until Reduce mixes them in, as a step you can undo.

Eight Audio Unit slots on every file, kept in its History with every other step, after quit too.

The Library opens any folder of sounds, nothing imported. SoundEdit Pro measures each one where it sits: what it is, its tempo, root note, key and loudness.

With Pro: kits for OP-XY, OP-1 field, EP-133, MPC, SFZ, Decent Sampler, SoundFont and Ableton, and folders fitted to two dozen samplers.

MCP: the AI agent you already use, in Claude or any MCP client, works in SoundEdit while it’s open.

At a glance

SoundEdit facts.

Platform macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon and Intel

Distribution Mac App Store

Price Free to download. The editor and SoundEdit Pro each try free for 14 days, then a one-time in-app unlock. No subscription.

The Library and Pro New in SoundEdit 1.1, released 2 November 2026

Files Opens WAV, AIFF, CAF, FLAC, MP3, AAC and M4A; saves WAV, AIFF, CAF, FLAC, ALAC, AAC or MP3, at the depth and rate you pick

Audio Units Eight slots on every file, played live and kept in its History

MIDI Every command on a key and a MIDI control; an OP-1, OP-XY or EP arrives already set up

Kits and devices With Pro: eight kit formats, sent over USB to OP-XY, OP-1 field and EP-133, and folders fitted to two dozen samplers

AI agents MCP, in Settings ▸ Agent: the open file for everyone; with Pro, the Library’s tools and serving without a window

Developer Audiofile Engineering, Two Harbors, Minnesota, since 2004

Help soundedit.audiofile.engineering/help

Reviewer workflow

How to play it.

Open a sound and play it from the computer keys or a MIDI keyboard: it plays across the octaves, polyphonically.
Choose Slices ▸ Chop into Slices (/): it’s cut at every hit. Turn on Slices ▸ Slice Play Mode and play the slices from your keyboard or a MIDI pad controller.
⌥-drag a second sound from the Finder onto the waveform. It plays live as an Ingredient on its own lane, and Reduce mixes it into the file when you’re ready.
Choose Process ▸ Slots ▸ Choose Plug-in… and type a few letters of an Audio Unit’s name. Quit, open the file again and press ⌘Z: every step is still there, and the plug-ins come back with it.
Choose File ▸ Open Folder in Library… and pick a folder of sounds you already have. The arrow keys audition each one, and Return opens it in the editor.
Start the SoundEdit Pro trial from the Library. TEMPO, NOTE, IS and LUFS fill in as each sound is measured: click LUFS to sort by loudness, or type tempo 80-110 to keep the loops in that range.
Or begin with Help ▸ Open Demo Session: a loop that already carries its History.

Images

Full size, ready to publish.

Screenshots of SoundEdit 1.1 and its icon. Each name downloads the full-size PNG.

SoundEdit Pro Library in SHEET view: every sound in a folder as a card with its waveform and measured tempo, note or kind of sound, one card playing, against the shore of Lake Superior — SoundEdit Pro: every sound in a folder as a card, with its measured tempo, note or kind of sound. SoundEdit-Pro-SHEET.png · 2600 × 1480

SoundEdit editor, dark: a break cut into fourteen numbered slices, with the scope, goniometer and amp envelope below. — Fourteen slices on the hits of a break, each on a key and a pad, with the amp envelope up. SoundEdit-slices.png · 2000 × 1167

SoundEdit editor, light, recording What’s Playing, the take’s waveform drawing in, with the scope, goniometer and spectrum below. — Recording What’s Playing: the take draws in as it arrives. SoundEdit-recording.png · 2000 × 1167

SoundEdit editor, dark: a loop with two Ingredients, an 808 and a crash, drawn over the original, and the filter panel below. — An 808 and a crash playing live as Ingredients over a loop, with the filter up. SoundEdit-Ingredients.png · 2000 × 1167

SoundEdit editor, light, with the SLOTS panel showing Crave EQ 2, UAD Teletronix LA-2A Silver, kHs Delay and kHs Reverb on a loop. — Four Audio Units on a loop: an EQ, a compressor, a delay and a reverb. Plug-ins shown from Crave, Universal Audio and Kilohearts. SoundEdit-Audio-Units.png · 2000 × 1167

SoundEdit Library, light: a folder of 218 loops and hits listed with name, waveform, length and format, one row playing. — A sample folder in the Library: every sound’s name, waveform, length and format. SoundEdit-Library.png · 2000 × 1800

SoundEdit Pro Library, dark: sounds sorted by class (clap, conga, cowbell, hat, keys, kick, snare, stick, strings, tom) with measured note and LUFS columns. — Thirty-five sounds sorted by what each one is, with its note and loudness. SoundEdit-Pro-measured.png · 1640 × 1800

SoundEdit Pro Library, dark, with LOCK 124 and KEY Am on: loops listed with measured tempo, key and loudness, one guitar loop playing from 90 to 124 BPM and from E minor to A minor. — Locked to 124 BPM in A minor: a 90 BPM guitar loop in E minor plays at 124, five semitones up. SoundEdit-Pro-tempo-and-key.png · 2000 × 1636

SoundEdit Pro Library, light: a recipe named Wide Drums staged on a twenty-sound kit, with source and result toggles and Run. — A recipe staged on a twenty-sound kit, each row heard as source or result before anything is written. SoundEdit-Pro-recipes.png · 2000 × 1440

The SoundEdit app icon. SoundEdit-icon.png · 1024 × 1024

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Copy-ready boilerplate

Audiofile Engineering is an audio product studio in Two Harbors, Minnesota. Since 2004, the studio has built apps for Apple platforms and engineered audio products for music and pro audio brands. Its apps include SoundEdit, an audio editor you can play, and Fidelia, a music player for collected libraries on Mac and iPhone. Past clients include Universal Audio, RØDE, D'Addario, and teenage engineering. Project specifics are confidential.

Short press pitch

SoundEdit is an audio editor you can play: Audiofile Engineering’s new editor for the Mac, from the makers of Wave Editor and Sample Manager, with a Library for every sound you own.