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iVox is a real-time audio wave slicer built to recreate vintage 1980s tape-editing effects.
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A vintage 1980s tape-editing audio effects tool is a narrow thing to build software around, and iVox commits to it fully — it's pitched as 'the real-time audio wave slicer to create vintage tape-editing effects,' aimed squarely at recreating a specific production style rather than functioning as a general-purpose audio editor.
The toolset reflects that focus: Analog Settings apply tape-style editing controls, a Delay Effect comes with built-in BPM calculation, and Slice Effects paired with Auto-regions handle the automatic detection and manipulation of audio segments that define the tape-slicing sound. Sample Slots store material for reuse, Slice Pad Control manages sliced segments directly, and Triplet Editing and Region Shifting give finer control over timing and placement than a generic waveform editor would offer.
Workflow tools round it out — pattern management lets an editor save and lock a sequence they've built, export settings handle transport configuration for getting a finished edit out, and drag-and-drop file import (added in a recent version update) removes friction from bringing new material in. Development is active and incremental: Sample Slots, Analog Settings, and drag-and-drop import were each added in separate recent version releases rather than arriving all at once.
iVox runs on Mac today, in both Apple Silicon/ARM64 and Intel builds, with a Windows version still in development and a waitlist open for it — worth checking directly if Windows is a requirement, since it isn't available yet. The target audience is specific by design: musicians and audio editors interested in recreating 'Latin Rascals style edits,' a particular 1980s tape-editing technique, rather than editors looking for a general-purpose DAW plugin. A free trial download is available for Mac before committing to the single paid license tier.
One specific production style — recreating 1980s tape-editing and Latin Rascals-style edits — rather than functioning as a broad, general-purpose waveform editor for any genre or workflow.
Not yet — the site states a Windows version is in development with a waitlist open, so current functionality is Mac-only until that ships.
Yes — a free trial download is available for Mac, letting a user test the real-time slicing and editing tools before committing to the single paid license tier.
Both — the site offers separate builds for Apple Silicon/ARM64 and Intel Macs, rather than a single universal binary covering both architectures.
Recent version history is the clearest signal — Sample Slots, Analog Settings, and drag-and-drop import were each added in separate releases, which points to ongoing incremental development rather than a stalled product.
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Hey Product Hunt, I'm Funkafilia, and I've been obsessed with a very specific art form for about 25 years. In the mid-1980s, a group of New York DJs and engineers figured out that you could cut and splice reel-to-reel tape to make music do things it was never supposed to do. Single beats became machine-gun stutters. Four-bar loops became rhythmic sculptures. The Latin Rascals, Omar Santana, and Chep Nunez turned tape editing into a performance art You can hear their fingerprints on Shannon, Sa-Fire, Duran Duran, Mantronix, and David Bowie records from that era. Nobody ever really built a proper tool to recreate this. DAWs are too general. Samplers are too modern. So I built iVox: a desktop-based splicing machine that thinks the way a tape editor thinks. Load any audio, define your region, then use pads to build edit patterns, pitch-bend slices, reverse hits, and micro-edits..... live, while it plays. In the early 2000s I started a Yahoo group called The Editheadz. A few hundred obsessed edit freaks found it and kept it alive for years. Eventually the scene migrated to Facebook, got overrun by spam, and quietly died. I believe those people are still out there — they just went back to their lives. iVox is for them. And for anyone who ever wondered how those records were made. The website is live and the app costs 49 euro for life time license. Would love your thoughts, questions, and upvotes and if you were ever an edithead, please say hi.