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Hear it. Then look closer.

Every file in OD Studio can be heard where it is — a MIDI take through the instrument you choose, a mix with its versions, a range edited without touching the original — and read the way an engineer reads it.

  1. 01 The MIDI collection · Studio I/O
  2. 02 MIDI
  3. 03 Audio Studio
  4. 04 The expanded view
  5. 05 Plug-ins and presets → your DAW

01The MIDI collection · Studio I/O

Seven ideas, written by hand. Any instrument you like.

A MIDI file is silent until something plays it. These are real chord sketches from the founder’s library — every note as written. Choose one, press play, then change the instrument, its preset and the effects after it while it plays. The notes never move. Only the sound does. Hold B to hear the piece as written.

Bittersweet Chords in Dorian260922_MMIDI-Chord [Bittersweet Chords in Dorian].mid
Reading…

Studio I/O

Audition · preview · output

Browser synth
  1. Internal synth
  2. Audio files
  3. Preview Master · 80%
MIDI AuditionSource
InstrumentInternal preview synthOD Studio · Built in · plays when no instrument is chosenReady
Preset
After the instrumentNo effects
ODS channel stagebefore plug-ins
    Instrument gain
    0.0 dB
    Audio AuditionSource
    Any audio file you previewNo effects in the path

    In OD Studio, every audio file you preview can pass through its own effect chain here — and be dragged out processed.

    Preview MasterOutput

    Both sources sum here, then leave for your output

    Stereo imageLRcentre
    Auditioning only · plays through this browser’s output
    Master level
    0.0 dB
    DAW SyncOffOff — previews play here, in ODSAdjust sync…

    These are the founder’s own MIDI files — the notes exactly as written. In OD Studio, Studio I/O plays MIDI through any Audio Unit instrument on your Mac, with its presets and effects. A browser cannot host plug-ins, so the instruments and effects here are original synthesis made for this page — the console around them is OD Studio’s.

    02MIDI

    A MIDI file, read completely.

    Every note, tempo and controller exactly as written — and saved back unchanged, byte for byte. Watch it fall through the Waterfall, read its key and chords in Theory, and open it in the Piano Editor, which is being refined.

    OD Studio for Mac · recordingThe same MIDI file you can play below, in the real app.
    The Profile of a MIDI file named Glass Keys — Take 3: 84 BPM, 4/4, 104 notes, a piano roll of pink notes across eight bars with a playhead, and transport controls below.
    OD Studio for MacRead a MIDI file completely — every note, its tempo and its meter.
    Try it here · interactive preview

    Press play and watch the notes light as they sound. Click any note to hear it alone.

    Glass Keys — Take 3.midInteractive preview
    Reading Glass Keys — Take 3.mid…

    03Audio Studio

    Edit a range. The original stays safe.

    Select a range and fade it, trim it, change its gain, normalise or reverse it — with one undo history. Edits are kept as instructions; a new version is a new file beside the original. Nothing is written over the file you started with unless you choose to, and then a backup is kept.

    Audio Studio: a stereo waveform with a selected range at the end of the track and a fade-out line drawn across it; an inspector on the right lists the range, the source file and the edit history.
    OD Studio for MacSelect a range, shape a fade — the original file is untouched.
    OD Studio for Mac · recordingA range at the end of a track, faded out.
    The Audio Studio inspector: pitch and time controls, one layer, the selected range from 16.4 to 22.2, the source file and a history entry reading Fade Out.
    OD Studio for MacRange, source and history — every edit is listed and undoable.
    Audio Studio in Source focus: the whole waveform of one file, and an inspector listing its length, format, identity, the region that plays it and source-wide pitch processing.
    OD Studio for MacEdit the file itself, or just the region that plays it.
    The Versions panel of a track’s Profile: the Original, marked active and protected, and two bounces below it named Radio edit and Radio edit +1 st.
    OD Studio for MacEvery version stays attached to the sound.
    Try it here · interactive preview

    Drag across the waveform, choose an edit, then save it as a new version.

    Audio Studio · Source FocusInteractive preview
    Lux PrimaOriginal · 1:07.3 · Audio
    Source Focus

    Drag across the waveform to select a range. Without a range, an edit applies to the whole file.

    Edits apply to a copy in your browser. In OD Studio, edits are kept as instructions and the original file is never overwritten.

    04The expanded view

    Open a sound wide. Read it like an engineer.

    One gesture opens any sound across most of the window: its file facts, its timeline as a waveform or a spectrogram, and its loudness — integrated, range and true peak — with meters that follow it as it plays. Everything below is measured in your browser, from the audio itself.

    Terminal HorizonExpanded View · the Original

    File

    Format
    Audio
    Sample rate
    44.1 kHz
    Bit depth
    24-bit
    Channels
    Stereo
    Duration
    0:00
    Size
    41.7 MB

    Music

    Tempo
    Tempo unknown
    Key
    —

    Timeline · spectrogram, 30 Hz – 22 kHz

    Measuring…

    Loudness · BS.1770-4 · R128

    …LUFS integrated
    …LU range
    …dBTP true peak
    M—
    S—
    Momentary max
    …
    Short-term max
    …
    Sample peak
    …
    RMS
    …
    Crest
    …

    Measured in your browser from the audio itself. Marks on the meters: −23 LUFS (EBU R128 broadcast) and −14 LUFS (a common streaming level).