Introducing Aureo

I’m Jeff. All I ever wanted to do was noodle around in a studio and make noises like Brian Eno. I studied music production at Berklee and SAE in what seems like a past life now, and I’ve been accumulating gear and plugins ever since. Building software ended up paying the bills, but the studio never stopped calling.

Like a lot of us, I never had any system for keeping track of any of it. Spreadsheets got abandoned. Mental notes got forgotten. And every time I needed to figure out how much insurance to buy, or what version of a plugin I was running, it felt like I was starting from scratch.

So I decided to build the tool I always wanted — which grew into what is now Aureo. A way to catalog my plugins, map out my signal flow, and see where all my money was going.

It was a personal project for a long time. But as I started sharing it with friends and other creative people, I realized how many of us were in the same boat. So here we are. Today’s the day that I’m excited to share it with all of you.

This first version scans every plugin on your machine — VST, AU, AAX, CLAP, LV2 — and matches them against an open catalog so you can finally see what you actually own. There’s a canvas for drawing your signal flow until it makes sense. And when your insurance company asks for a list, you can generate a report instead of digging through receipts at midnight. It’s all local, and that’s not going to change.

Plenty is still rough, and there’s a long list of things to do, but the roadmap is public to keep me honest.

If any of this sounds like your studio, download Aureo. The first 30 days are free.

Thanks for being here at the start. ❤️