| Version | Date | Download link | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.4.0 | 7/19/26 | Magister-Music-1.4.0.dmg | Magister Music now includes built-in compressor and limiter effects with gain-reduction metering, sidechain keying from any MIDI or audio track, full parameter automation, and panels that animate along with playback. Automation got broader treatment throughout the app: a new binary Mute lane can gate any track, curves travel with clips when they're moved or nudged between tracks, ghost curves show a track's other lanes while editing, and open plugin windows now follow their automated parameters even when you click around the timeline while stopped. A metronome, piano-roll ghost notes, MIDI-effect baking, and seed-locked regeneration round out the composing tools, alongside project-scale remapping that conforms existing notes when you change key. Multi-selection now works the way you'd expect everywhere: renaming, resizing, slicing, coloring, muting, soloing, freezing, converting, and expanding all apply to every selected clip or track at once. The mixer became a focused mixing surface with a self-sizing track sidebar, clip selection that carries over from the arrangement, hover-armed faders you can nudge from the keyboard, and smoother, display-synced meters. Plugin editor windows were overhauled so each plugin owns its size and the host follows, fixing cut-off and oversized. Under the hood, playback held its polish: loop-region moves and clip edits during playback are now seamless, all audio media is standardized to stereo 48 kHz, exports capture exact plugin state and fader levels, and the welcome screen gained recent songs, recent templates, and one-click new-from-template. |
| 1.3.0 | 7/13/26 | Magister-Music-1.3.0.dmg | Added a complete audio recording subsystem, with transport-integrated mic capture, loop-cycle takes, and live waveform feedback. Mixing gained buses and sends, track freeze, convert-to-audio, effect chain presets, and LUFS loudness tools with stem export. Audio editing expanded with a dedicated sample editor offering trims, gain, pitch shift, reverse, silence-based splitting, and curved fades. MIDI work leveled up through file import/export, fourteen built-in MIDI effects led by a full-featured arpeggiator, and a bake-to-notes command. The piano roll now has an editable velocity lane, legato and swing tools, scale-aware chord stamps, and ghost notes. Arrangement workflow improved with a metronome, follow-mode scrolling, an undo history panel, autosave with crash recovery, and per-song timeline zoom. A new sample browser, plug-in groups, a refreshed tintable theme, and 41 newly mappable shortcuts round out the workflow additions. Various fixes and stability improvements. Made plug-in windows more fluid and responsive. |
| 1.2.0 | 7/5/26 | Magister-Music-1.2.0.dmg | Magister Music 1.2.0 introduces a new concurrent audio engine that supports more simultaneous tracks during playback and export. Playback is smoother and more responsive during live timeline changes, with better loop handling, natural sustained notes across loop boundaries, reliable MIDI looping after preset changes, and clearer playhead/loop start behavior. Export is more dependable, including fixes for clicks and stalls in songs with effect chains and steadier MP3 progress reporting. The release also adds a DSP load readout, a plug-in loading progress dialog, and playback-safe Generator preset changes. Smaller workflow improvements include loop range editing from the Mixer overview, loop nudging with arrow keys, safer Delete Time behavior for repeated clips, a main window size preference, and Arrangement view refinements. |
| 1.1.3 | 6/28/26 | Magister-Music-1.1.3.dmg | MIDI loop playback is more reliable at transport loop boundaries, including after instrument editor and preset changes. Mute and solo now gate mixer output so MIDI tracks can keep running internally while silent. MIDI instrument tails have more time to decay naturally after clips end. Arrangement editing adds a temporary red paste cursor and preserves track offsets when copying and pasting multiple clips. Clip merging now keeps unnamed clips unnamed and combines named clips with slash-separated names such as A/B. Delete Time is safer and now shifts track and master automation left with the removed time. Automation editing has full-timeline track-colored drag guides and snapping to dashed guide positions. Mixer controls are more compact, the master strip matches track width, and track numbers appear before names. Timeline readability is improved when zoomed out, with skipped arrangement labels, persistent mixer bar markers, and live loop shading while dragging. |
| 1.1.2 | 6/18/26 | Magister-Music-1.1.2.dmg | Improved playback stability, smoother loop handling, and workflow polish. The playback engine now handles loop edits, clip re-enabling, same-pitch MIDI retriggers, and graph changes more reliably. Export length now follows the loop region end when a valid loop region exists, even if looping is disabled. AU plug-in loading is much faster and export rendering are more robust, especially around editor windows, instrument loading, and graph restarts. The mixer and arrangement views now better support large projects with pinned master tracks, aligned loop headers, narrower meters, and improved waveform previews for looped audio clips. Automation lanes now show the current control value when no automation data exists. Preferences and the help guide were also updated with cleaner organization, shortcut customization, and documentation for the new features. |
| 1.1.1 | 6/10/26 | Magister-Music-1.1.1.dmg | Various visual refinements and stability/bug fixes. Faster clip editing: arrow-key nudging, smarter paste/duplicate behavior. Clearer automation: grouped menus, plug-in labels, alignment and persistence guides. Better loop workflow with selected empty time as a loop target. Smoother playhead/loop visuals, meter response, and export progress updates. |
| 1.1.0 | 6/7/26 | Magister-Music-1.1.0.dmg | Initial release |
Magister Music
Downloads
Download the full version of Magister Music for macOS. The app runs in evaluation mode until a license is purchased and activated. In evaluation mode, saving and export features are disabled.
All Magister Music releases are notarized through Apple's official security process and digitally signed with Magister, LLC developer distribution certificates.
Magister Music is designed for Apple Silicon Macs; Intel-based Macs are not supported.