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Spatial Audio Designer + it's virtual sound card. As heard in Red Tails by Lucasfilm, for example. Or the Expendables 3 bluray.

LAWO hardware mixing desks are Linux based, so the broadcast world demands Linux tools.

But the whole thing started out as an Apple exclusive app to be used together with Pro Tools. Ironically, Pro Tools has also had lots of problems with new macOS releases, so when their Windows presence grew, we observed our most important customers jumping ship and decided to follow them.

The C++ framework is JUCE. I'm a big fan of its visual editor and how easily you can extend that to support your own GUI components.




Nice, is this something that’s not catered for by other (native) Mac apps?

If users have other options, that might explain the difference in your revenue across platforms.


As far as I know, we're the only ones offering this. Both on Windows and on Mac. We used to have healthy profits on Mac before the problems started. Then, as our customers moved from Mac to Windows, so did our revenue.




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