Attention Rax users! Please read our Rax FAQ for important information regarding retrieving your new License Key and other information regarding our acquistion of Rax.

What Is Rax?

Rax is streamlined, intuitive virtual rack software for Mac OS X. It enables performing musicians to easily organize and control their virtual rack of Audio Units.

Rax Is Back!

We acquired Rax from plasq in September of 2007. As one of the few, pure Cocoa audio applications developed at the time, Rax was a major inspiration for us in creating Audiofile Engineering. We're absolutely thrilled to now have it as part of our catalogue. (Stay tuned for future announcements about Rax 3.)

Keeping It Organized...

An intuitive and familiar interface now allows you to organize your racks into songs, and your songs into sets. Version 2.0 of Rax adds a new model for building and organizing setlists, with Remote control via MIDI and the Apple Remote further streamlining this workflow.

This setlist feature, in combination with OnStage, allows the performer to easily step through songs remotely, at a glance. Enter the new OnStage window and you can step through the set in a performance with no squinting, and no other visual distractions from other apps.

See the Difference

The new hi-contrast user interface makes it easier to see and control Rax from afar, whether thats while leaning over a MIDI keyboard or guitar. Each knob now features a pop-up 'value bezel' which makes it easy to see the precise values of each parameter.

OnStage makes the important stuff big, and hides the rest. View and move through your setlist, preview your selected visualizer, keep an eye on MIDI and audio in+out, CPU and audio levels. You can move from rack to rack as you move song to song, via your MIDI keyboard or even an Apple Remote!A reliable Panic mode also lets you quickly jump out and tweak, and jump back into the OnStage View. (Want OnStage like features for Logic? Check out OnStage from Fluqe.)

Audio Units

Rax fully supports Audio Units, Apple's powerful audio plug-in technology. Your favorite virtual instruments and effects plug-ins by Native Instruments, Universal Audio, iZotope, NuSofting, Audio Damage, Nomad Factory, Wave Arts and others are welcome here. You can even use Apple's fantastic built-in Audio Units. If you do, you'll find that they don't look like the same old built-in Audio Units you're used to...

Our Vision

Audiofile Engineering began in a recording studio, not in a corporate boardroom in an office building. As musicians and engineers who have invested blood, sweat, and tears into the world of creative audio software, we are too often surprised by an ugly truth: end-user support is seriously lacking.

From day one at Audiofile Engineering we have devoted ourselves to keeping in touch with our user base. We believe that the center of our business, and even the process of creating our software, rests within each and every one of our customers – with you. And if you run into trouble, we want to be there to help.

Not Your Parents' Help Menu

Actual, honest-to-goodness, end-user tech support is built-in to every one of our apps. Look in each application's menu for Support and check it out.

Learn more by watching our tutorial Screencasts, check for an update of the software, read Release Notes and new features, manage your License keys, or communicate with a real, living, human being on our Support staff.

The Help Desk tab is where you can let us know when you believe you've found a bug, or when you have a great idea for a future feature, and even review all past communications with the Support Team. No more digging through emails, or following links in your web browser. We've put the most important bits right at your fingertips.

We're All In This Together

We work hard to provide unparalleled technical support, and strive to keep improving our development workflow and quality control to prevent issues from happening in the first place. We utilize modern and effective tools that allow us to support you in the best way possible, no matter where in the world you are.

But we can't do it alone – we need you to stay in contact.

Tell us when you need help, let us know when things aren't working the way you expect and especially when they seem unclear. Send us your most desired feature requests, and share stories about how you are using and enjoying the software we've created. This feedback will give us what we need to continue to build and refine the most useful and enjoyable applications you've ever used.

When in doubt, just email us directly at support@audiofile-engineering.com.

Audiofile Engineering creates unique and high-quality audio software exclusively for Mac OS X. All of our applications are written in 100% pure Cocoa and make extensive use of core technologies in Mac OS X Tiger and Leopard. Because our software is written from the ground up in Cocoa, we are able to add features and fix issues significantly faster than other developers who are supporting legacy Carbon-based applications. As Mac OS X grows, so will our applications.