| Version | Date | Download link | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.7.1 | 8/21/26 | Magister-Music-1.7.1.dmg | This release makes live playback dramatically more seamless: switching a track's instrument, adding or editing its effects, and toggling the metronome no longer interrupt the music, with everything else continuing to play in perfect sync. Chords on the built-in synths — Morpheus, Vulcan, Polaris, and now Lumina — no longer max out and distort on hot presets, and the arpeggiator's occasional loud or bent notes are gone for good. The arrangement view gains slim level meters on collapsed tracks and an optional master-output oscilloscope tucked beside the Beat readout in the transport bar. Editing got a major boost too: the piano roll's new Note Details dialog sets velocity and probability across a whole selection, and automation lanes now support marquee multi-select with group dragging, nudging, copy/paste across lanes, and delete. Audio clip work is far more polished — slices keep their colors, reverse and fades render correctly on sliced and stretched clips, and the sample editor opens slices at their own sound with a high-resolution waveform and its own Play button. Right-click clip commands now apply to every selected clip at once, remember your last-used values, and the clip gain dialog matches the sample editor's full +24 dB range. Recording rounds it out: every take now draws its live waveform clearly, not just the first. |
| 1.7.0 | 8/17/26 | Magister-Music-1.7.0.dmg | Introduces Apollo, a built-in drum machine with eleven sample slots, a hardware-style step sequencer, and a pattern generator that understands what a kick, snare, and hi-hat each do across fifteen musical styles and twenty-five factory patterns. Apollo's patterns lock to the song's beat grid and are triggered by ordinary MIDI notes, its swing and humanize controls give every pass a live feel, and your own drum samples join an app-wide library that travels inside your songs. Lumina, a sixth built-in synthesizer, brings a character-analog voice — drifting oscillators, hard sync, ring mod, and a wavefolder feeding a ladder filter that self-oscillates like the classics — with 58 hand-crafted presets. The built-in effect rack grows to twenty-three with the Volume Shaper, OTT, Gate, Transient Shaper, De-Esser, Stereo Imager, and Utility, including beat-locked pumping and rhythmic gating that follow the song's grid without any sidechain routing. Editing gets faster too: hold the right mouse button and sweep to erase multiple notes in the Piano Roll or hits in Apollo's grid, and drag-selections in the Arrangement now auto-scroll in both directions at the view edges. Magister Music also keeps itself up to date now, checking for new versions automatically and installing them in place from the Check for Updates menu item. Rounding things out are new interface preferences for keeping meters running while plug-in windows are open and for relaxing the collapsed track layout, plus refinements throughout the arrangement and mixer views. |
| 1.6.0 | 8/9/26 | Magister-Music-1.6.0.dmg | Introduces five built-in synthesizers — Hyperion (subtractive), Morpheus (four-operator FM), Vulcan (supersaw ensemble), Chronos (plucked-string physical modeling), and Polaris (wavetable morphing with a motion-swept position engine) — carrying 567 hand-curated presets between them, so the app makes professional sound out of the box with no plug-ins installed. A full rack of sixteen built-in audio effects joins them, from an eight-band parametric EQ with interactive curve editing and a three-band multiband compressor with sidechain keying to reverb, delay, echo, saturation, and a complete modulation family, each with twenty-five factory presets. Every built-in instrument and effect now shares one standard preset system: previous/next arrows, a preset menu, a dice for random picks, heart-marked favorites with a favorites-only browsing toggle, and the ability to save your own modified presets into a User category — with each track remembering its preset by name when a song is reopened. Built-in plug-ins can now be enabled, hidden, and organized into picker groups from Preferences just like external Audio Units, and every panel answers the same gesture language — drag, double-click to reset, and arrow-key or scroll-wheel adjustment of whatever control you hover. Rounding out the release, clips can be recolored from a Set Color menu of track-matched swatches. |
| 1.5.1 | 8/5/26 | Magister-Music-1.5.1.dmg | The Generator now works directly from the Arrangement: turn any MIDI clip into a generated one using a preset or random roll, start from curated factory presets, and reopen generated clips in the Generator unless they have been hand-edited. Edit → Again (⌘R) repeats the last command on the current selection. New repetition tools add or remove copies with Option-Left/Right, while the Replicate dialog can create multiple copies and optionally vary each one; the same shortcuts resize loops or adjust Piano Roll notes based on context. The sample editor adds detailed deep zoom, slip editing, zero-crossing trims, Normalize, and phase inversion. Arrangement and Piano Roll grids now reach 1/64, alongside better range selection, automation snapping, and editor access from the Mixer. The Piano Roll also gains exact Note Timing, Merge Notes, visible note probability, and smarter snapping and click behavior. Mixer clip selection and loop editing are improved, while undo now stays scoped to either plug-in or main-window changes. Playback recovers after output-device changes, regenerated loops keep their structure, and fixes improve Delete Time, slicing, naming, legato, quantization, and Mixer navigation. |
| 1.5.0 | 7/26/26 | Magister-Music-1.5.0.dmg | Modulators arrive in this release: tempo-synced LFO and Macro strips that sit beside your buses and drive any learned plug-in parameter — or track volume and pan — across any number of tracks, with their waveforms drawn beat-locked on the Arrangement timeline and honored identically in playback and export. Note probability: give any note a chance to play — set a percentage in the Piano Roll's probability lane and each loop pass rolls the dice independently, so a static pattern gains living variation. Recording gains a count-in of one or two bars of click before a take begins, starting you exactly on the downbeat, keeping notes played slightly early, and cycling audio loop takes until you stop. The Generator learns Follow mode, keeping generated notes inside the chords of any clip you point it at, and every generated clip now offers instant Near, Standard, or Distant variations from a simple right-click. New one-click dynamics commands — Velocity Variation, Crescendo, and Decrescendo — humanize or shape a clip's note dynamics in place, alongside a velocity-lane batch tool and per-note playback probability in the Piano Roll. The Sample Browser grows favorites, key detection with clash filtering, tempo detection from file names, tempo-synced loop auditions, and a dice button for random discovery. Automation adds Bezier curves with draggable segment handles, while a live chord readout in the status bar names whatever harmony sits under the playhead. Finally, editing during loop playback is now seamless — moving, pasting, duplicating, and resizing clips never interrupts the music — and a finer MIDI timing engine makes dense synth arrangements play back more smoothly than ever. |
| 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 |
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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.