Working With Audio

Wayaframe gives you everything you need to build a complete audio mix. Generate voiceover with AI, browse royalty-free music and sound effects, create AI-generated music, or upload your own audio files. Fine-tune every clip with volume, fades, Audio Tone presets, and voice changers, then balance it all in the audio mixer.

Adding audio to your project

Voice Designer

Generate voiceover audio from text using AI text-to-speech. The Voice Designer is available from the editor sidebar and as a step in the guided project creation flow. Voice clips are placed directly on the timeline once generated.

Audio panel

The Audio panel in the editor sidebar provides three tabs for finding audio content:

• Music: search and browse royalty-free music tracks. Filter by mood, genre, duration, and commercial-use license. Preview tracks before adding them.
• Sound Effects: search and browse sound effect libraries. Filter by category and preview before adding.
• AI Music: opens Tunedance, our AI music generation app, for creating custom music and soundtracks.

Hover over any track or effect to preview it before adding. Click to add it to the timeline at the playhead position, or drag it onto a specific track and time.

Upload

Import your own audio files (MP3, WAV, M4A) via Import Media or by dragging files directly onto the timeline. Uploaded audio can be up to 400 MB.

Detach audio from video

Separate the audio track from a video clip by selecting the clip and choosing Detach Audio from the right-click menu, the timeline toolbar, or by pressing ⌘+⇧+D. The audio becomes its own clip on a new track, letting you trim, move, or replace it independently of the video.

Clip audio controls

Select an audio or video clip on the timeline to access its audio properties in the properties panel.

Volume

Adjust the clip's volume from 0% (silent) to 400% (4x boost). The slider shows the percentage, and you can type an exact value. The default is 100% (original level).

Fade in and fade out

Separate sliders for fade-in and fade-out, each from 0 to 10 seconds in 0.1s steps. Fade-in gradually raises the volume from silence at the start of the clip, and fade-out gradually lowers it to silence at the end. Use fades to create smooth transitions and prevent abrupt audio cuts.

Audio Tone presets

Audio Tone presets shape the tonal quality of a clip's audio. Select a preset from the dropdown in the clip properties panel:

• Voice Focus: tightens speech clarity with a 3kHz boost and gentle compression. Best for dialogue and narration.
• Clarity: boosts mid and high frequencies for better intelligibility. Good for voices that sound muffled.
• Warm: adds body with a low-mid boost and reduces harsh highs. Suits music beds and ambient sounds.
• Air: brightens the sound with high-frequency shelf boosts. Adds openness to flat-sounding recordings.
• Low Cut: removes rumble, plosives, and low-frequency noise with a 100Hz highpass filter. Useful for cleaning up microphone recordings.

Select None to remove the EQ preset and return to the original sound.

Voice changer

Apply a voice effect to transform how a clip sounds. Voice changer presets are available for audio and video clips with spoken content:

• Telephone: tinny, band-limited sound like a phone call.
• Robot: metallic, synthetic voice effect.
• Hacker: distorted, anonymized voice.
• Megaphone: loud, compressed, bullhorn-style effect.
• Deep: lowers the pitch for a deeper voice.
• Bright: raises clarity and presence.
• VHS: lo-fi, retro tape-style degradation.

Each preset has a Strength slider (0 to 100%) that controls how much of the effect is blended with the original voice. At 0% the voice is unchanged, at 100% the full effect is applied.

Volume automation

You can animate a clip's volume over time using keyframes. Add keyframes on the audio volume property to create volume envelopes. Common uses:

• Duck music under dialogue: lower the music volume during speech, then raise it again after.
• Fade effects: create custom fade curves beyond simple linear fades.
• Accent hits: briefly boost volume on beat drops or important moments.

The animated volume is multiplied with the track volume and master volume from the Audio Mixer for the final output level.

Playback speed

Change how fast or slow an audio clip plays:

• Playback rate: 0.25x (quarter speed) to 4x (four times faster).
• Preserve pitch: when enabled (the default), the audio pitch stays natural regardless of speed. When disabled, faster playback raises the pitch and slower playback lowers it.
• Speed curves: apply variable speed changes over the duration of the clip for ramp effects.

See Speed & Timing for full details.

AI audio tools

Several AI-powered tools are available for audio and video clips from the Tools tab in the properties panel:

• Voice Swap: replace the voice with a different AI voice while preserving speech content and timing.
• Voice Enhancement: clean up audio with AI noise reduction and clarity improvement.
• Voice Translation: translate spoken audio to another language with AI dubbing.
• Edit by Text: edit the audio by modifying its transcript.

Track-level audio

In addition to per-clip controls, each track has its own volume, pan, mute, and solo settings accessible from the Audio Mixer. Track-level controls affect all clips on that track together.

For full mixing with faders, level meters, and spatial positioning, see the Audio Mixer.

Waveform display

Audio clips on the timeline show a waveform visualization of the audio content. The waveform gives you a visual representation of the audio levels, making it easier to identify speech, silence, loud sections, and transitions without playing the clip.

Audio waveform effects

You can also add visual waveform elements to the canvas that react to your audio in real time. These are separate from timeline waveform displays and come in multiple styles (bars, lines, spectrum, glow, and more). Use them to add audio-reactive visuals to music videos, podcasts, and social content. See Audio Waveforms.

What to read next

• Audio Mixer
• Clips
• Voice Designer
• Speed & Timing
• AI Voice Swapping & Dubbing