Sound Deck

A soundboard for your Mac. One key, one sound, right now. Play them over each other, and send them to your speakers or straight into a call.

Download for Mac Source on GitHub

Free · macOS 14.6 or later, Apple Silicon or Intel · Install steps

Sound Deck runs on a Mac. Open quietpixel.dev/sounddeck on your Mac to install it.

Try it

Click a pad, or press 1 to 9

Space stop all

Into the call

Your audience hears it too

Normally only you hear sounds from your Mac. Pick a virtual audio device as the output, and the deck goes into Zoom, Meet, Discord or OBS like a microphone.

Sound DeckOutput: BlackHole
BlackHoleA free virtual audio device
Zoom, Meet, Discord, OBSMicrophone: BlackHole

To send your voice too, join your microphone and BlackHole in an aggregate device in Audio MIDI Setup. The README has every step.

Sound Deck playing gong-hit.wav: a waveform with a playhead, a volume slider, and nine sound pads, each with a number key

Keys everywhere

Play from any app

Turn on global hotkeys and press ⌃⌥ with a pad's key, even while the call window is in front. Return plays the last sound again.

Or click the menu bar icon for a small deck, and leave the main window closed.

Your deck, your way

Every pad, tuned

Trim Play only the part you want.
Loop Keep music or a drone running.
Volume per pad And one master volume.
Fade out Sounds stop softly, not with a click.
Colour and emoji Find the pad at a glance.
Drag to sort Drop files in, drag pads into order.

Install Sound Deck

Download the disk image. Open it and drag Sound Deck to your Applications folder.
Open Sound Deck. It is not notarized by Apple, so macOS stops it the first time. Close the warning.
Open System Settings › Privacy & Security, find the message about SoundDeck, and click Open Anyway. You do this only once.
Drag audio files onto the window. Press 1 to 9 to play them.

The sounds on this page are made in your browser. In the app, every pad plays your own audio file.