DOWNLOAD · Soundbox 1.0 · BUILD 3.0.0 AT LAUNCH
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One program for everyone: it opens as the free demo, with no time limit and no account, and a license key unlocks the full studio in the same program. Nothing to uninstall when you upgrade.
The free demo arrives on January 12, 2027. No time limit and no account: ten sounds, five basic shapes, one emitter with up to 80 particles, a studio light and two scene effects, in the same program as the full studio. It will come as an installer for everyday use and a portable build for USB sticks, both digitally signed; this page then lists each file with its size and SHA-256 checksum, and how to check your download.
System requirements
| Windows | Windows 10 (22H2) or Windows 11, 64-bit (x64). Windows on Arm runs it through x64 emulation, untested. |
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| Internet | Not needed for the demo. The full studio activates and checks its key online, and opens offline for 3 days after a successful check. |
| Sound | Any Windows audio output. A microphone or audio input only for live input and recording. |
| Disk | About 1 GB free: about 400 MB for the program, plus your libraries and projects. |
| Language | English |
Minimum hardware
Provisional: measured in October 2026 on a 12-core desktop with a dedicated graphics card. A 4-core laptop with integrated graphics has not been measured yet, so the minimum below is a reasoned floor.
- Processor: a 4-core 64-bit processor from about 2017 or later. On four or fewer logical processors Soundbox starts in Economy graphics quality. Recommended: 6 cores or more of a recent generation; the physics runs on one core, so its speed decides how many particles stay smooth.
- Memory: 8 GB of RAM. Soundbox itself uses about 1 GB at the default settings and about 1.5 GB with thousands of particles; 16 GB is recommended for large particle counts.
- Graphics: a DirectX 11 graphics card or integrated graphics with hardware acceleration is recommended. Without it, Soundbox draws the playground with Canvas 2D at the Economy or Lite quality; sound and physics are the same either way, and the GPU visuals (refracting glass, soft shadows, bloom) need hardware acceleration.
- Display: 1280 × 720 or larger after Windows scaling (the window needs at least 1024 × 640).
- Disk: an SSD is recommended; the portable build unpacks itself (about 380 MB) the first time each version starts.
- Particles: up to 20,000 at Full and Ultra graphics quality; on a fast desktop processor a busy scene with 20,000 stays above 30 frames per second. Lite and Economy quality (Auto picks Economy on four or fewer logical processors) hold at most 10,000. The physics runs on one processor core, so a slower processor plays fewer particles smoothly, and Particle collisions cost much more above about 2,000.
The best test is your own computer: the demo is the same program, so if the demo plays smoothly, the full studio will too. Graphics → Test this computer picks a quality level for you.
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