IcedAudio
Coming August 2026

AudioCortex 2
Your sound library finally understands sound.

For 20 years, sample browsers have known your files by name. AudioCortex 2 knows them by ear. It listens, understands, organizes, transforms — and it has an AI collaborator living inside it that can do all of that for you, by voice or by hand. Not a librarian with a search box bolted on. A creative instrument that happens to have perfect memory.

Free upgrade for AudioFinder customers who purchased in 2020 or later.

New at launch — intro $99 for beta & early buyers, $149 at 1.0.

One email at launch — early-buyer pricing & free-upgrade details. No spam.

Meanwhile — AudioFinder →
  1. AudioCortex 2 browsing a folder of MIDI files with Sounds Like (AI), rating, BPM and key columns, and the selected file rendered as a live piano roll across the bottom of the window
    Browse MIDI like audio — select a file and it plays out as a piano roll, right in the main window.
  2. AudioCortex 2 DJ Live view — two decks with detected tempo and key, a dual beatgrid, crossfader, crates, and the Oscilla AI prompt bar
    DJ Live — beat-matched decks with detected key & tempo, and Oscilla ready to pull the next track for you.
  3. AudioCortex 2 MIDI Library — 1,873 files summarized by tempo, feel and key, with per-file BPM, meter, key, feel, density and detected parts
    MIDI Library — 1,873 files read for tempo, meter, key, feel and parts, with the first bars of chords spelled out.
  4. AudioCortex 2 Piano Roll — 345 notes across four colour-coded tracks at 88 BPM in 2/2, with a playhead over the arrangement
    Piano Roll — open any MIDI file straight into an editable, colour-coded arrangement.
  5. AudioCortex 2 Instruments window — a ten-voice drum machine step sequencer with per-voice tune and volume, above a synth with a hexagonal keyboard, oscillator, filter and envelope controls
    Instruments — a built-in drum machine and synth, so you never start from an empty library.
  6. AudioCortex 2 Node UI — a source file wired through an oscillator and gain into an output, with the Add Node menu open showing Alchemy engines like Veil, XXL Stretch, Morph and Wavesets alongside effects and DSP
    Node UI — patch sources through the Alchemy engines like a modular rig, or just ask Oscilla to wire it for you.

🎧 It hears what things sound like

Audio-to-audio similarity search

Drop in a sound — a breathy pad, a gnarly kick, a field recording of rain — and AudioCortex 2 finds everything in your library that sounds like it, even if the filename is Untitled-47.wav. No tags. No folders. No lies. Just: “find me more of this feeling.”

Aesthetic ears

It classifies your material by character and quality, so the good stuff surfaces and the junk sinks.

🤖 Oscilla — an AI that actually operates the app

Most “AI in music” is a text box that spits out a loop. Oscilla is different: it drives the whole application. Ask it to find a lush guitar, stretch it into a cathedral, run it through a bell, lay it on a track, and bounce it — and it does the work, tool by tool, right in front of you. It's not a chatbot glued on the side. It has hands.

🌫 A furnace of texture engines

This is where AudioCortex 2 stops being a browser and becomes an instrument.

XXL Stretch

Time-stretch 2× to 200×. Transients dissolve; a guitar strum becomes a twenty-minute glacier. The engine behind the Monolith and Aquaphoria pieces.

Mosaic

Rebuild any sound out of grains of another sound. Paint a melody in whale song.

Convolution — where the hall is anything

The impulse response can be a bell, a choir, a mosaic — so your material rings inside other material. The library becomes the room.

Spectral suite

Crossing, Freeze, Morph, Veil, Sediment, Wavesets, Ascension, Widen, Resonate. Clean-room spectral processing from the electroacoustic canon, rebuilt in fast native Swift.

🎛 A studio, not just a shelf

Tracks

Real DAW-style lanes to layer and arrange what you make.

Node UI

A patchable canvas where you wire sources through effects like a modular rig, save and load patches — and Oscilla can wire it for you.

Synth + Drum Machine

Sound generation built in, so you're never starting from an empty library.

🌀 See your sound

Spiral

The pitch spiral. Chords bloom as constellations, drones burn as a single spoke, detuning smears off-axis. Harmony you can watch.

🧠 It gets better the more you use it

A Factory Journal turns your sessions into the app's own growing intelligence — so new users don't start from zero, and you don't either.

AudioCortex 2 is a sound library that listens, an effects rack that dreams, and an AI collaborator that does the work — in one native Mac app.

Free upgrade for AudioFinder owners who bought in 2020 or later · $99 intro at launch