"How can something
this familiar be so
much better?"
Seth Clark, Editor
(Arrested Development, Mixed-ish)
Part DAW, part sound library, and part sampler, Audio Design Desk speeds up sound design by automating the tedious work so you can focus on the artistry. It’s an effortless creative experience that instantly integrates into your workflow, no matter your timeline or budget.
Accolades
“This is the tool I’ve been looking for my entire career. Audio Design Desk lets me focus on creating sounds and makes the pain and chore of sound editing disappear.”
— Jamie Hardt, Sound Effects Editor of IT and ZERO DARK THIRTY
Audio Design Desk turns your computer keyboard into an instrument so you can perform sound design elements like hits, rises, footsteps, punches, and gunshots in real-time, while watching your video.
• Press keys to place sounds in real-time
• Over 20,000 sounds included
Perform
Once you’ve placed your sounds, tell Audio Design Desk what genre, mood, or feel you’d like, and it will offer smart alternates without ever losing sync.
• Change genre, mood, feel, intensity and complexity with one click
• Create infinite alternates without losing sync
Replace
Search for your sound design elements right from the timeline. This saves you hours of digging through complex libraries and because each sound understands sync, there's no need to trim and nudge your sounds into place.
• Find and place from the timeline
• No more hunting through libraries
Refine
Search for your sound effects right from the timeline. This saves you hours of digging through complex libraries and because each sound understands sync, there's no need to trim or nudge them into place.
• Find and place from the timeline
•Zero trimming and nudging
• No more hunting through libraries
Export as an .xml or an .aaf to bring your work into Pro Tools, Premiere, Avid, Final Cut Pro, or the DAW or NLE of your choice, or upload to Frame.io and get sync-accurate notes without ever leaving the timeline.
• .xml and .aaf export
• Upload to Frame.io
• Works with Pro Tools, Premiere, Final Cut Pro
Deliver
What People Say
"There isn't another piece of software that allows you to instantly create at this level of professionalism."
Matthew Cooke
Academy Award-nominated editor
Intelligent Import
Import your own sounds and add our Sonic Intelligence by dragging files into the importer and then pressing the “Guess Metadata” button. Less time tagging means more time sculpting your sound design.
For those of you who don't have their own libraries, Audio Design Desk comes with thousands of cinema-quality sounds to fully cover your animation, advertisement, independent film or television show.
25,000 Sounds
90-Second Tutorial
Custom Features For
Editors
Audio Design Desk was built from the ground up with video editors in mind. It works seamlessly with Avid, Premiere, and Final Cut Pro. Sound is half of what you see.
Sound Designers
Over 5,000 hits, rises, transitions, pitched, rhythmic, and textural elements—plus over 250 presets from one of the sound designers behind trailers for films such as World War Z and Rogue One.
Composers
Audio Design Desk is an inspirational tool that learns what you like and how you work. Take a preset and randomize and refine the results.
Foley Artists
Perform footsteps, punches, gunshots, and more by using the trigger panel in Audio Design Desk. Save sets for different projects. Want to change shoe or gun type? Just two clicks.