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Mixel press kit
Mixel, from 0x1audio, is a free Mac app that finds the sound you’re thinking of: describe it in words, and it searches every sound in your folders, privately, on your Mac.
ZIP, 1.8 MB: the logos, the app icon, the screenshots and these facts.
Facts
- What it is
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Mixel finds the sound you’re thinking of. Describe it in words, and Mixel searches every sound in your folders, privately, on your Mac.
Search in words and Find similar need a Mac with Apple silicon.
- Who makes it
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0x1audio, in Italy. Founder: Gabriele Pio Midulla.
- Mac
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Apple silicon and Intel, macOS 14 or later.
Search in words, Find similar, De‑reverb and Vocal Extractor need a Mac with Apple silicon.
- Price
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Free: everything on your Mac, and it stays free.
Mixel Plus, the paid plan, is not on sale yet. It starts with Backup: €12 a month or €120 a year ($12 / $120, plus tax where it applies).
Prices in euros include VAT.
Make a free account by 20 November, and you get the founding price when Plus opens: €8 a month or €80 a year, for as long as you stay on Plus.
- How it searches
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Mixel listens to your sounds with a model that runs on your Mac: LAION’s CLAP, larger_clap_music_and_speech, whose weights are under the Apache 2.0 licence.
Every result says why: tagged by you, in its name, or close in sound. Mixel never shows you a score.
Add “not vocal”, and sounds tagged, named or detected as vocal are left out, with a count.
- Privacy
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Your sounds stay on your Mac. Mixel never uploads your audio.
Mixel indexes your folders where they are. It never copies, moves or renames your files.
No account needed for the Library and the apps. Usage sharing on the Mac is off until you say yes.
Works offline once set up. The first setup downloads the sound model (416 MB).
No ads, and we never sell your data.
- Also in Mixel
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Find similar: pick any sound and hear the ones nearest to it, across every folder.
Stars, your own tags, and filters for key and tempo.
Four apps: Audio Converter, Vocal Extractor, De‑reverb and Pitch & Tempo. Every app runs on your Mac; Vocal Extractor and De‑reverb need Apple silicon.
The official apps are open source, under the Apache 2.0 licence.
- Measured
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Search in words (Mixel 0.1.15): 6.5 of the top 10 results are the kind of sound you asked for, across 52 searches, with the single notes renamed so their names don’t give the answer away.
Loops are the hardest: 4.4 of the top 10 with the test Library’s own names.
Listening: 2,662 sounds a minute on one Mac with an M4 chip (Mixel 0.1.14). Older Macs will be slower.
Every number, with how it was measured and where it misses, is on the numbers page.
Screenshots
Mixel 0.1.20 with a demo Library, 2880 × 1800, in light and dark. The page shows the one that matches your setting.
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Search in words
Describe a sound, and every result says why it’s there.
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Leave things out
Add “not vocal”, and Mixel says how many it left out.
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Find similar
Pick a sound and hear the ones nearest to it, across every folder.
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Your folders, where they are
Stars, key and tempo, in the folders you already have.
Demo sounds: Freesound and FSL10K (CC0); NSynth, Google Magenta (CC BY 4.0).
Logos
Black ink on light backgrounds, white ink on dark ones. The PNGs are transparent.
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The mark
The pixel m, with its one lit square. For icons, avatars and small spaces.
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Mixel
The mark and the name, wherever Mixel is named on its own.
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Mixel by 0x1audio
With the company’s name, for credits and anywhere the maker is named.
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The mark in one ink
Without the lit square, for print, engraving and one-colour use.
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The app icon
Mixel’s icon on a Mac, for listings and app round-ups.
1024 × 1024 PNG
- Keep one square of clear space around the mark (a square is a fifth of its width), and the mark’s height around a lockup.
- The lit square is the only colour. Don’t recolour, outline, round, rotate or stretch the mark.
- Black ink on light backgrounds, white ink on dark ones.
- In running text, write Mixel as a word.
“Mixel” and “0x1audio” and their logos are trademarks of 0x1audio. How to use them
In a few words
Use these as they are, or take any line from the facts.
- In one line
- Mixel, from 0x1audio, is a free Mac app that finds the sound you’re thinking of: describe it in words, and it searches every sound in your folders, privately, on your Mac.
- In one paragraph
- Mixel for Mac finds the sound you’re thinking of. Describe it in words, like “pad in F minor” or “kick, not vocal”, and Mixel searches every sound in your folders with a model that runs on your Mac. Your audio is never uploaded, and your files stay where they are. Every result says why it’s there: tagged by you, in its name, or close in sound. Everything on your Mac is free, and it stays free. Search in words and Find similar need a Mac with Apple silicon.
- About 0x1audio
- 0x1audio makes Mixel. It’s based in Italy and run by its founder, Gabriele Pio Midulla.
Founder
Gabriele Pio Midulla
Founder, 0x1audio
A photo and a short bio are available on request.
Contact
Write to hello@0x1audio.com, with “Press” in the subject.