Farrago 2.2.0 Mac

The Fade control per tile is the sort of thoughtful detail that tips you off: this isn't a toy. Farrago gives your Mac a customizable tile grid where each square can hold a sound effect, music sting, or voice clip, ready to fire with a click or a key press. Every tile gets its own name and color, in and out points, and independent fade settings, so a long ambient bed and a sharp door slam can sit side by side and behave exactly as you need them to.

• Trigger audio from a resizable tile grid, with custom names and colors per tile.
• Set precise in and out points and adjust fade behavior for every sound individually.
• Group sounds into named sets for different shows, games, or scenes.
• Control playback with MIDI hardware, no extra translation software required.
• Built for podcasts, live radio, theater, tabletop RPGs, and voice chat.
• Copies the audio files you use into the app, keeping your sound library self-contained.

The app runs on macOS 14 Sonoma and later, with the current version adding Shortcuts support enhancements and editor improvements. For anyone who has ever fumbled for a sound cue in a live setting, the tile-based layout and per-sound controls turn a laptop into a fast, reliable audio panel.

Loading a morning-show set full of color-coded tiles

You open Farrago and load a set called "Morning Show." The grid fills with colored tiles — red for stingers, blue for guest intro beds, green for call-in sounders. A producer in the next chair queues the next track by tapping the spacebar in List view, watching the waveform scrubber move as the segment runs. When a caller says something worth a rimshot, your finger finds the F5 key you bound months ago. The sound fires instantly, ducking under the host's next sentence because you'd set the tile's fade-out to 0.3 seconds weeks back and never thought about it again.

Halfway through the hour, the segment changes. You switch to the "Traffic & Weather" set from the set browser. The grid repaints with four tiles: a looping bed, a weather sting, a traffic alert tone, and a time-check clip. You nudge the bed's volume down on the fly with the per-tile slider, leaving headroom for voice. When the traffic report wraps, the weather sting plays once and stops — you'd unchecked the loop toggle for that tile during rehearsal. Nothing overstays.

After the show, you close Farrago. The app doesn't ask to save anything. It already did. The audio files you'd dragged in from a shared network folder are copied inside Farrago's own container, so next week's fill-in host won't find broken links when they open the same set on a different Mac.

A dungeon master's table

For a tabletop game master running a horror campaign, Farrago turns a MacBook into an atmosphere engine. They build a set for the haunted mansion: creaking floorboards on tile 1, distant thunder on tile 2, a whispered voice loop on tile 3, a combat sting on tile 4. Tiles get colors that match the mood — dark grey for ambient dread, red for sudden scares. Each ambient loop has a long fade-in set so it creeps into the room rather than announcing itself.

When the party opens the wrong door, the game master hits the thunder tile with a MIDI foot pedal tucked under the table — both hands stay free for dice and notes. The thunder hits full volume for two seconds, then fades to silence while the whispered voice loop resumes underneath, still playing at low level from a tile whose output was dropped to 40 percent. The players lean forward. Nobody checks their phone. The soundboard disappears into the story.

Live producers juggling carts and fades alone

Live radio producers and podcast editors who run multi-segment shows get the most mileage from Farrago. The combination of per-tile fades, MIDI control, and named sets means a single operator can manage what used to need a cart wall and a mixing desk. Theater techs benefit from the same reliability — no in-app ads, no subscription nagging during a performance, just a grid that fires on cue.

Musicians using Farrago alongside Loopback route the app's output into a digital mixer channel, triggering backing tracks and one-shot samples from a MIDI drum pad. Voice-over artists keep frequently used audition clips or reference takes on a small grid, playing them back with a single keystroke between reads. Anyone who needs to fire audio instantly, without waiting for a file dialog or an import progress bar, will find the tile grid faster than any traditional waveform editor. The app doesn't try to be a DAW. It focuses on one thing — getting the right sound out at the right moment — and that narrow focus is why certain users keep it running all day.

Version 2.2.0 brings Shortcuts support enhancements, notable editor improvements, and compatibility with macOS 27 Golden Gate.

• macOS 14 Sonoma or later
• Intel or Apple Silicon Mac
• Interface language: English