What is Caltex Music?
Caltex Music is a feature-rich digital audio workstation (DAW) and MIDI sequencer application designed specifically for macOS. Developed by Caltex Software, it provides musicians, producers, and audio engineers with a complete music production environment to compose, record, edit, and mix audio and MIDI projects.
At the core of Caltex Music is an intuitive single-window interface that allows users to easily arrange audio and MIDI tracks, apply effects in real-time, edit with sample-accurate precision, and mix down professional stereo audio. Despite the streamlined interface, Caltex Music includes extremely powerful editing tools like automatic crossfades, Flex Time stretch, and Brigade tempo manipulation.
Caltex Music also comes bundled with a wide range of virtual software instruments, effects plugins, loops, and samples to immediately start crafting music. Over 75 instruments and effects are included covering synthesizers, samplers, drums, vocals, guitar amps, and studio effects. The sound library features thousands of loops, one-shots, and instrument presets.
Key features include:
- Intuitive single-window interface
- Unlimited audio and MIDI tracks
- Powerful non-linear, non-destructive editing
- Over 75 virtual instruments, effects, and sound libraries
- Automatic plug-in delay compensation
- MIDI editing, quantization, and automation
- Music notation with score editor
- Flexible routing and bussing options
- Hardware integration with control surfaces
- Seamless integration with macOS
With its simplicity for beginners and advanced tools for professionals, Caltex Music is one of the most popular digital audio workstations for macOS. It provides everything musicians need to go from musical ideas to professional-quality finished recordings.
Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music, SoundCloud, BlackHole Music Player, Last.fm, Pandora, Spotfy, Audius Music, Maloja, Playary, Yandex Music are some alternatives to Caltex Music.