OD Studio for Mac · in development

Find the sound.
Understand the project. Keep creating.

OD Studio is a Mac app that understands music files the way musicians do. Your projects, takes, stems, MIDI ideas and presets in one library: filed as they arrive, heard in a moment, in time with your DAW — and every project readable without opening it.

OD Studio window: a grid of tracks from a demo library with waveform cards, the Profile of one track on the right and the Dock player along the bottom.
  1. 01Find itEverything you have made — audio, MIDI, projects — searchable in the folders where it already lives.
  2. 02Know itEvery file has a Profile: how it sounds, how it was made, its versions, where it came from.
  3. 03Hear itSelect anything and the Dock is ready. Play it, loop a range, switch versions.

OD Studio for Mac A demo library in the real app: the library, a track’s Profile, and the Dock playing it.

00Before OD Studio

Your music is spread across drives, folders and years.

Sessions on one drive, bounces in Downloads, stems in a folder you named in a hurry. OD Studio reads the folders you choose and gives every file a place where you can find it again — without moving a thing.

Illustration: nine files from different places — Downloads, the Desktop, an external drive, iCloud Drive and old folders — gathered into one Studio Drive list.

01Automation

Make the repetitive work disappear. Keep the creative decisions.

Teach a folder once. OD Studio reads what each new file is — where it came from, its client code, its tempo, its key — and files it the way you would, every time. It asks before it acts if you want it to, explains every decision, and never guesses a fact it can’t read.

Script Automation and Naming →

Start from

Bounces from Logic are filed by year. Everything else is left where it landed.

BouncesStudio Drive › Music › Bounces⚡1
⚡ AutomationsBouncesInteractive demonstration · simulated in your browser

Sort session exports

Studio Drive / Music / Bounces On — holding files where they land.✓ Ready

Files where it arrives from Logic and it ends .wav or .aif and OD Studio does not already have a copy of it in “Bounces”: move it to Exports / [Year] — waiting for your yes before anything touches the file.

OD Studio prepares each change and waits for your yes.1 waits for your yes

WATCH
Files in Bounces · this folder and everything inside · when a file arrives
MATCH

All of these must be true

it arrives from Logic
it ends .wav or .aif
OD Studio does not already have a copy of it
DO
1Move it to Exports / [Year]Waits for your yes

Steps run in this order: descriptions first, then anything that touches the file, so it never moves wearing the wrong description.

Change the rule
Preview3 of 7 files would be affected.
Studio DriveWhere each file went
  • Exports

02Studio Drive

Every folder, every stem, one place.

Studio Drive is your real folders, shown the way a musician thinks about them — songs with artwork, stems as waveforms, takes with their tempo and rating. Search reaches all of it at once.

  • List, Columns, Gallery or Art view — over the folders you already have.
  • Hold any card and it turns over to show what the sound is.
  • Ratings, tags and notes live beside your files. The files themselves are never rewritten.

In OD Studio, a producer opens their music folder, steps into a song’s stems, opens one stem’s Profile and plays it, then looks through its creative tags and musical details. The recording has no sound.

OD Studio for Mac · recordingFrom a folder to a sound in a few clicks.

Cards, Workspaces and Projects →

03Versions and the Dock

Every version a file. One player for all of them.

Select anything and the Dock has it loaded. Every saved version is a new file beside the original — the original is never overwritten — and comparing two is one gesture, at the same moment in the music.

  • Switch versions without losing your place.
  • The Dock follows your selection everywhere in OD Studio.

The Versions panel of a track’s Profile: each saved version is selected and played in turn, then the view returns to the Sound tab. The recording has no sound.

OD Studio for Mac · recordingThe two saved versions of a master, played from its Profile.
The Creative section of a track’s Profile: tags grouped under mood, vibe and texture, role, energy and use case.
OD Studio for MacDescribe sounds the way you hear them.
Try it here · interactive preview

Press play in the Dock, then pick another version — or ⇄ Compare to hear the other one at the same moment.

Harbour Lights — Mix.wav · ProfileInteractive preview

Versions

OriginalMix · 96 BPM · D minor · 0:42

The mix as it was bounced. OD Studio never overwrites it.

Harbour Lights — Mix.wavWAVOriginal96 BPM · D minor
0:00
0:42

—The Dock

A player that lives in every room.

The Dock stays at the bottom of OD Studio wherever you are. Its face moves with the music — the sound’s energy for audio, the chord on a twelve-tone wheel for MIDI. It loops a range you choose, and opens into a full timeline when you want to look closer.

The Dock expanded into a wide timeline: a long waveform with the played part lit and a playhead at twelve seconds, transport controls on the left.
OD Studio for MacA player that lives in every room.

04MIDI → Instrument → Sound

The same notes. Any instrument you own.

A MIDI idea is silent until something plays it. Studio I/O plays it through any Audio Unit instrument on your Mac, with its presets and effects — so you hear the sketch as the finished thing could sound, without opening a DAW. These are the founder’s own chord sketches.

  • Every note, tempo and controller read exactly as written.
  • Change the instrument mid-phrase; the notes never move.

A MIDI file plays in OD Studio’s piano roll: the playhead crosses the notes while the Dock at the bottom follows the same position. The recording has no sound.

OD Studio for Mac · recordingThe same MIDI file you can play below, in the real app.
Try it here · interactive preview

Press play, then change the instrument while it plays. Watch the notes stay the same — and the sound change.

The notes

Reading…unchanged

The instrument

The sound

Press play, then change the instrument while it plays.

The founder’s own MIDI, played by browser instruments made for this page. In OD Studio, the lens is any Audio Unit instrument on your Mac. Open Studio I/O →

Shape it in Studio I/O — instruments, presets, effects →

05DAW project → connected studio

Keep your DAW. Connect everything around it.

Logic Pro, FL Studio and Ableton Live stay where they are. OD Studio reads the project without opening it, remembers every save, follows the session while it plays, places the sound you just found on the track you’re working on — and files whatever the project exports.

Try DAW Sync →Send a preset to your DAW →

Project IntelligenceSave historyDAW SyncUse in DAWAutomationStudio Drive and Search

01 / 06

Reads it

Project Intelligence

24 tracks · 31 plug-ins · 96 BPM · 4/4

Every track, instrument and effect chain, read from the file — with Logic Pro closed.

Logic Pro, FL Studio, Ableton Live · founder-accepted

♪Music by OD

PLEROMA. ODYN.

The music on this site is ODYN’s album PLEROMA — 19 tracks, played one after another while you look around, stepping aside whenever you try something in OD Studio.

Track 1 of 19 · Order of Matter

06Beyond the Mac

Made on the Mac first.

OD Studio is being built for the Mac, where your projects and sessions live. Everything on this page is the Mac app. Windows is part of the long-term plan — not scheduled, and no Windows version is being built yet.

The wider picture →

In development

OD Studio for iPhone and iPad

A companion app is in development. It will be shown here once it can be shown working — until then, no screens and no promises about what it will do.

In early development

Music Mind

A separate app from Made by OD, exploring how musical ideas can be captured, understood and developed. Early, and presented as such.

08Interactive preview

Spend five minutes in OD Studio.

The preview is a small, working recreation of OD Studio in your browser: Studio Drive, Profiles, the Dock, Versions, Audio Studio, MIDI and a project’s anatomy — with a fictional library of three pieces of music. Nothing to install, no account, and nothing leaves your browser.

09Where it is today

Built carefully, and shown as it is.

OD Studio is in active development on the Mac. This is what works today, what is being refined, and what is still being built.

Working today

Built, and in real use by its maker.

  • Studio DriveYour own folders, in list, column, gallery or art view — organised in place.
  • SearchFind files by the words in their names, even misspelt. Space to hear.
  • ProfilesTags, ratings, status and notes, kept beside your files.
  • The DockOne player that follows your selection, with loops and a listening range.
  • VersionsNew files beside the original; A/B against it; choose a primary take.
  • Audio Studio editingRange edits, fades, gain, normalise and reverse, with one undo history.
  • MIDIMIDI files read and saved losslessly; watch them play.
  • Project IntelligenceLogic Pro, Ableton Live and FL Studio projects, read without the DAW.
  • Main AutomationRules on your folders that describe, name and file what arrives — or wait for your yes.
  • Script AutomationScripts in ODS Script that decide, within the permissions you give them.
  • NamingNames built from your own Name Vault and what OD Studio knows about the file.
  • Studio I/OMIDI heard through any Audio Unit instrument on your Mac.
  • Plug-ins and presetsEvery plug-in in one catalogue, with its presets.
  • Cards, Waterfall and TheoryCards that turn over; MIDI falling onto a keyboard, its key and chords; the expanded view.
  • Following Logic ProPreviews start on the next beat, at Logic Pro’s tempo.

Being refined

Built, with known gaps being closed.

  • Pitch and timePitch and Varispeed keep the length of your audio; pitch editing is still being refined.
  • Saving in Audio StudioSave with ⌘S, keep a new version inside the sound, or render a new file — being finished with real use.
  • IntakeNew arrivals, per folder: just land, ask me, or handle it.
  • Musical readingsTempo, metre and where bar 1 falls, with how sure OD Studio is.
  • Following Ableton Live and FL StudioTempo and transport followed; being finished.
  • Piano EditorEditing MIDI notes, velocities and controllers.

In development

Being built. Not shown until it works.

  • Studio SessionsA place to make something new beside your library — being reworked.
  • iPhone and iPadA companion app is in development. It will be shown here once it can be shown working.
  • Projects into sessionsRebuilding a DAW project as a Studio Session.
  • WindowsPart of the long-term plan. Not scheduled; no Windows version is being built yet.

Availability

Being built for Macs with Apple silicon. Not yet available.

No release date or price has been announced. When there is news, it will be here first.