← Swik
For music producers

A radial menu for music producers on Mac

Logic, Ableton, Pro Tools, and every plugin around them — on one flick. Context profiles for tracking, mixing, and mastering sessions. Built for people who live in a DAW.

Download for macOS Free for five wedges · $9 one-time for unlimited

The DAW is fullscreen. Everything else is in the way.

A producer's day is one DAW — Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Pro Tools, FL Studio, Reason, Bitwig, Studio One — surrounded by a stack of support tools. Sample browsers like Splice and Loopcloud. Plugin hosts that open standalone (Kontakt, Serum). Reference players (Spotify, Apple Music). Stem organizers, Slack or Discord for collab, Audacity for a quick edit, a Finder window pinned to the samples folder.

The DAW wants the whole screen. Your hands are on a MIDI keyboard or on a mouse near the transport bar. Cmd-Tabbing breaks the loop. A typed launcher means stopping, looking up, and remembering what you needed. A radial menu on a mouse side button keeps you inside the session — flick to Splice, flick back, keep going.

Four layouts that cover a producer's week

Concrete wedge configurations that map to how producers actually work. Save each as its own profile, or mix and match into a single default.

Studio default

The everyday set when you sit down to write or track. The DAW plus the tools you reach for between takes.

  • 12 o'clock — Logic Pro / Ableton Live / Pro Tools
  • 1:30 — Splice or Loopcloud
  • 3:00 — Spotify (reference tracks)
  • 4:30 — Chrome (YouTube tutorials, manuals)
  • 6:00 — Slack or Discord
  • 7:30 — Kontakt (standalone)
  • 9:00 — CleanShot X (snap a settings pane)
  • 10:30 — Finder shortcut to samples folder

Mixing session

Mid-mix focus. Analyzers and reference players within a flick, so you don't lose the comparison loop.

  • 12 o'clock — DAW
  • 1:30 — SPAN or Pro-Q analyzer (standalone)
  • 3:00 — Reference track player (Spotify, Apple Music, or a dedicated reference app)
  • 4:30 — Notes app for mix notes
  • 6:00 — Clipboard wedge (frequency numbers, dB values)
  • 7:30 — Shortcut: toggle "mix check" monitor set
  • 9:00 — Sub-menu: plugin-chain favorites

Mastering profile

Loaded when your mastering rig display is connected. Loudness checks, references, and the delivery folder one flick away.

  • 12 o'clock — Mastering DAW (WaveLab, Pro Tools, Logic)
  • 1:30 — LUFS meter (standalone)
  • 3:00 — Reference tracks folder
  • 4:30 — Delivery folder (pinned)
  • 6:00 — Shortcut: "loudness check" routine
  • 7:30 — Plug-in-chain favorites sub-menu
  • 9:00 — Email client for client delivery

Collab and send

End-of-session layout. Open the project, push to cloud, send the email, walk through the mix.

  • 12 o'clock — Pinned document: latest project file
  • 1:30 — Dropbox or Google Drive
  • 3:00 — Mail or Spark (client delivery)
  • 4:30 — Audiomovers (live monitoring)
  • 6:00 — Loom (review walkthroughs)
  • 7:30 — Clipboard wedge — paste session notes
  • 9:00 — Shortcut: "bounce in place" if scriptable

Built-in features that matter for music work

Drag-to-wedge with audio files

Drop a .wav, .aif, or .mp3 onto the Logic or Ableton wedge and Swik hands the file to the DAW for import. Same for stems onto Audacity, references onto Spotify, or a project file onto Pro Tools.

Clipboard ring for plugin settings

Copy a frequency value, a Q setting, or a plugin preset name as text and Swik keeps the last eight clips on a sub-menu. Paste them straight into a session note or a Discord message without losing your place.

Apple Shortcuts for DAW tasks

Wire any Apple Shortcut to a wedge: "Open latest session", "Toggle Space Designer preset", "Bounce in place" wherever scriptable. For Logic and Ableton specifically, you'll mostly drive keyboard shortcuts via System Events — but anything you can map to a key, you can put on a flick.

Context-aware profiles

Studio monitors connected? Loads your studio layout via the display trigger. Headphones-only on the laptop? Loads a mobile mixing profile. Wi-Fi triggers can swap layouts when you walk into a different studio.

Nested sub-menus

One wedge opens another radial menu. Group reference tracks, plugin-chain folders, or sample libraries without burning your top-level slots. A "References" wedge can fan out to eight tracks; a "Plugins" wedge to eight standalone hosts.

Pinned documents

A wedge that opens your current project file, wherever it lives on disk. Move the project, update the wedge once, keep flicking. Useful when you have one active session that you reopen ten times a day.

Frequently asked questions

Does Swik integrate with Logic or Ableton?

No, and it doesn't need to. Swik launches Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Pro Tools, FL Studio, Reason, Bitwig, or Studio One on a wedge. Neither Logic nor Ableton expose much to AppleScript directly, so for in-DAW actions you wire an Apple Shortcut to a wedge — typically driving keyboard shortcuts via System Events. Anything you can map to a key command, you can put on a flick.

Will a radial menu interfere with my MIDI keyboard?

No. Swik only triggers on a mouse side button or a keyboard hotkey you choose. It doesn't intercept MIDI, doesn't sit in the audio thread, and doesn't see anything coming from your controller. Your MIDI keyboard and your DAW behave exactly the way they do today.

Can I have different layouts for tracking vs mixing vs mastering?

Yes. Swik's context-aware profiles switch your layout based on Wi-Fi network, whether an external display is connected, or time of day. A studio profile loads when your monitor controller display is connected. A mobile mixing profile loads on your laptop screen alone. A mastering profile can be a separate manual switch.

Does it work with Apple Silicon at low buffer sizes?

Yes. Swik runs as a tiny overlay process. It is not in the audio path, doesn't ride the audio thread, and doesn't touch CoreAudio. Whether you're tracking at 32 samples or mixing at 1024, the radial menu has no measurable impact on roundtrip latency or CPU headroom.

Swik — a radial menu for macOS

Launch anything. One gesture. Free for five wedges, $9 one-time for unlimited. Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.

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