About

Aureo is a desktop app for managing a music production studio. It runs entirely on your machine, scans the plugins you have installed, helps you map out your signal flow, and gives you a clear picture of what you own.

Your studio data is personal. It's a record of creative decisions, investments, and workflows built up over years. That data shouldn't live on someone else's server.

Aureo is local-first. Your data stays on your machine — no cloud accounts, no subscriptions, no recurring fees. Buy once, own forever. It's the way software used to work, and the way it should still work for the tools you depend on.

Behind Aureo is a growing database of hardware and plugins — releases, specs, I/O mappings, version history. It's open and community-driven because this kind of data should belong to all of us, not locked inside a company's walled garden.

Aureo is one way to use the catalog. The hope is that it becomes a resource for other developers, researchers, and creators to build things for this community.

Aureo is built by Jeff Louden. The longer story of how it came to be is in the launch post.