Questions, answered.

Choose fPost if you work in audio post and receive AAF turnovers to prep in Pro Tools. Choose fMusic if you deliver music and need to print stems and exports in Pro Tools or Logic Pro. The free AAF Checker validates any AAF before import, whichever you use. Engineers who do both often use fPost and fMusic together.

Forte supports Pro Tools and Logic Pro. fPost works with Pro Tools 2024.3 or later. fMusic Studio and Suite work with Pro Tools 2024.3 or later; fMusic for Logic Pro covers Logic Pro 11.1 or later. The free AAF Checker needs no DAW at all and checks any AAF on macOS.

No. Everything runs on your Mac through Forte’s on-device AI-R recognition engine. Nothing is uploaded, which keeps embargoed film, TV and client material private. The apps connect to the internet to verify your license; the Suite plans can also run fully offline, air-gapped rooms included.

Yes. AAF Checker is a free macOS app that checks any AAF before you import it, flagging missing or unreadable media, timecode and sample-rate problems, and corrupt files. It needs no account and nothing is uploaded. fPost and fMusic also offer a 7-day free trial with no credit card.

Start a 7-day free trial of fPost or fMusic with no credit card, or download AAF Checker free. After the trial you add a card only if you decide to buy. Pricing is on the pricing page: monthly, yearly or a one-time Lifetime license, plus an fPost Enterprise tier for facilities.

No. The Forte free trial requires no credit card. It runs 7 days, starts at your first in-product sign-in, and expires on its own with no auto-charge, so there is nothing to cancel. You add a card later only when you decide to buy. The same applies to fPost and fMusic.

Forte is built by Forte Audio S.r.l., founded in Turin, Italy, in May 2024. The team builds Mac automation tools for professional audio engineers and studios in post-production and music. Prices are in EUR, VAT included.

Yes. fPost automates Pro Tools session prep end to end: its on-device AI-R engine detects the content of each clip, matches your own Pro Tools session template, and returns a session that is named and organized, ready to mix. It works from an AAF or an existing PTX session.

fPost supports AAF files exported from Avid Media Composer, Pro Tools, Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. Final Cut Pro does not export AAF directly, so it is not supported natively, but a short guide shows how to convert a Final Cut export into an AAF for use with fPost.

Everything that Pro Tools can carry in an AAF survives: fades and crossfades, automation, clip names, and supported plugins and effects are all preserved. Track folder grouping does not come across, because the AAF format does not support it. fPost preserves what is there and never alters the original files.

No. fPost never writes to your original AAF or media. It extracts the AAF and media information temporarily into a local folder purely to analyze it, then builds a new Pro Tools session, so your handoff files stay untouched and you can re-run an import safely.

fPost converts the sample rate so your audio plays back at the correct pitch and speed in your session. Video frame rates are kept as they are, not changed. Matching your session to the source still avoids surprises, but a sample-rate mismatch will not silently push your audio out of sync.

fPost Studio classifies clips into the macro categories dialogue, music and sound effects and lands them in your template. Suite adds deeper recognition down to micro categories such as sync dialogue, instrumental music and foley, plus multi-AAF import, splitting one AAF across sessions and per-clip metadata. Suite launched in July 2026.

fPost places clips using on-device content recognition, not brittle track-name matching. The AI-R engine classifies each clip by what it actually contains and lands it in the correct folder and name within your template, so missing or inconsistent names from the editor do not break the prep.

Studio covers AAF import, session reorganization, template matching, naming, macro-category recognition and standard support. Suite adds micro-category recognition, multi-AAF import, split-across-sessions, per-clip metadata, 24-hour priority support and fully offline use. Both are one seat and sold monthly, yearly or as a Lifetime license: Studio EUR 49/month, EUR 288/year or EUR 1,199 once; Suite EUR 59/month, EUR 348/year or EUR 1,399 once. Enterprise adds floating licenses, a license server, an SLA and volume pricing.

No. Your plan, its price and your renewal date stay exactly as they are. You can see them, and download fPost, in your user area.

Your audio stays private on every plan: fPost processes everything on-device through the AI-R engine, so nothing is uploaded. Working fully offline, air-gapped rooms included, is part of fPost Suite and Suite Lifetime; Studio connects to the internet to verify your license. This suits facilities handling embargoed film and TV under NDA.

fPost requires Pro Tools 2024.3 or later and macOS 13 or later. There is a single installer that runs on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, so you do not need to pick a build. fPost Suite also works fully offline.

Yes. fPost has a 7-day free trial with no credit card. It starts at your first in-product sign-in and expires on its own with no auto-charge; add a card later only to buy. Before importing, the free AAF Checker lets you confirm an AAF will import cleanly at no cost.

fMusic automates the repetitive work around a Pro Tools session in three flows. Import brings your audio files into a session organized by category, named and routed to your template; Organize (on Suite) reorganizes any existing PTX in place: renamed, recolored, re-routed and reordered; Export prints stems and deliverables through Pro Tools’ own bounce engine. Every run goes through a queue, so single jobs and overnight batches behave the same. For Logic Pro there is fMusic for Logic Pro, a separate one-time purchase.

Yes, through two products. fMusic Studio and Suite automate stem export and mix prep in Pro Tools (2024.3 or later) through its native scripting layer, PTSL. Pro Tools must run with its interface in English. For Logic Pro there is fMusic for Logic Pro, a separate one-time purchase that covers the fMusic workflow in Logic (11.1 or later): routing, naming, background bounces and batch export queues.

Yes, with the Organize module on fMusic Suite. It opens any existing PTX, reads it track by track, recognizes what each track contains, and reorganizes it in place to your settings: renamed, recolored, re-routed and reordered, with stereo .L/.R pairs merged and removed tracks deleted. A PTX that arrives from another studio lands organized like your own work.

Yes, unattended. fMusic drives Pro Tools’ own bounce engine through the whole batch, print after print and format after format, so you queue the exports and step away instead of clicking through one blocking bounce at a time. It prints each file to your routing, naming and width automatically.

Yes. fMusic queues multiple sessions and processes them unattended, opening and closing each one with no manual restarts or dialogs to babysit, so you can leave a batch running overnight. On Suite, imports, organizes and exports share one queue, so a mixed batch runs in one pass.

Yes. fMusic registers global print shortcuts that work while Pro Tools is in front: one keystroke turns the tracks selected in Pro Tools into a print, soloed, muted or as one file per track, with the current timeline selection as its range. The print is waiting, already selected, the next time you open Export. You set the keys in Settings.

Yes, on fMusic Suite. Every print can be previewed and auditioned before it runs, so a wrong mix source or a muted track costs you a two-second check instead of a re-render of the whole batch.

Yes for buses, outputs and routing folders. Stem categories on fMusic Studio are built from a routing source, a bus or an output. Suite adds Folder mode: a category names one or more routing folders, soloed together and captured from the main output, so categories match sessions built on folders rather than buses. Any print can also solo a hand-picked set of tracks.

Yes. Every print declares its delivery width, mono or stereo, as one file or one file per track, so mono stays mono and stereo stays stereo, and you do not collapse width or pad mono files to dual-mono by hand. Width is set per print, once.

Yes. On import fMusic classifies the actual content of every stereo file as fake stereo (identical channels), hard-panned or true stereo, and folds it to mono by your per-case rules. Files delivered as separate .L and .R pairs are merged automatically, and every verdict stays visible so you can see what was decided and why.

fMusic exports WAV and AIFF at 16, 24 or 32-bit, and MP3 at 128, 256 or 320 kbps. Sample rates range from 44.1 kHz up to 192 kHz (44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4 and 192). You choose the format and quality per delivery.

fMusic uses Pro Tools’ own bounce functions and does not add or cut tails arbitrarily, so you configure your exports as usual. Each print carries its own range, set by timecode or bars and beats, or between two markers on Suite, so you can end the render after the last clip and tails print exactly as intended.

Yes. On export, print names, base filename, suffix and casing follow your convention, into the destination folder you choose. On import, tracks are named from what they contain, in the casing style you set, and clips can take their track’s name. Batch exports come out correctly named and organized.

Not currently. fMusic exports mono and stereo deliverables; immersive formats such as Dolby Atmos and ADM BWF are not supported today. If you need immersive delivery, tell us with a feature request and we will weigh it for the roadmap.

Not on export: fMusic prints your mix exactly as you set it and never targets streaming LUFS levels such as -14 LUFS, so your loudness decisions stay in your hands. On import, fMusic Suite includes audio normalization: an automatic level pass to the target level in dBFS you set once in Settings, measured by true peak or by RMS.

fMusic’s recognition and processing run entirely on your Mac, so your audio is never uploaded. Studio needs an internet connection while you work; Suite can go further and run fully offline, air-gapped rooms included. One license covers 2 seats, so you can run it on two machines such as a studio rig and a laptop. Every plan, Studio and Suite, on subscription or Lifetime, includes the same 2 seats.

Yes. fMusic Lifetime is a one-time payment: EUR 499 for Studio or EUR 699 for Suite, with 2 seats and every update to your tier included, no subscription and no renewals. Pick the tier on the Lifetime card, here or in your user area. The 7-day free trial is the same, full Suite, no credit card.

fMusic Studio and Suite require Pro Tools 2024.3 or later on macOS 13.5 or later, with a single installer for Apple Silicon and Intel; they drive Pro Tools through PTSL, with Pro Tools’ interface in English, and macOS asks once for the Accessibility permission at first launch. fMusic for Logic Pro runs on Logic Pro 11.1 or later on macOS 11 or later. Both offer a 7-day free trial with no credit card that starts at first sign-in and expires on its own.

Your subscription moves to fMusic Studio automatically, at the same price you pay today. There is nothing to do: your renewal date, payment method and 2 seats stay exactly as they are, and you get every Studio update from launch day.

fMusic Studio for life, free. Your license moves to Studio automatically with all your features updated, and every Studio update stays included at no cost. Options for Suite are shown in your user area.

Your pay-once license includes a year of updates from the day you bought it. While that year runs, you get fMusic Studio with its updates, plus fMusic for Logic Pro if your license covered both Pro Tools and Logic Pro; any upgrade options are shown in your user area. After the year, the version you bought keeps working and the new fMusic is a new purchase. A pay-once license for Logic Pro only moves to fMusic for Logic Pro, also as a new purchase. If what you own is the fMusic Lifetime license, the lifetime answer applies instead: you get Studio for life.

fMusic for Logic Pro is the product for Logic: the full fMusic workflow, sold as a one-time purchase, yours forever. The fMusic for Logic Pro page has the details and the free trial.

You move to fMusic Studio automatically and your installments continue unchanged, same amount and same schedule. Completing them unlocks Studio for life, as before. Any upgrade options are shown in your user area.

Studio is the complete fMusic workflow: import and mix prep, stem and deliverable export, unattended bounces and batch queues, with 2 seats. Suite adds the professional modules: the Organize module to reorganize any PTX, match template and track preset modes, audio normalization, custom mix source, markers and formats per print, stem categories from routing folders, a mixed queue, print preview with audition, and full offline use for air-gapped rooms. The free 7-day trial is always full Suite, so you can try everything. The fMusic page has the full comparison.

Yes, any time from the user area: open your plan and choose annual. The switch is prorated and takes effect immediately, and annual billing works out to half the cost of paying monthly.

An AAF (Advanced Authoring Format) file is an interchange container used to hand a project from a video editor to an audio workstation. It carries the timeline structure, audio clips and metadata, with references to the underlying media. Before importing one into Pro Tools, the free AAF Checker tells you whether it will import cleanly.

AAF Checker is a free macOS app that checks an AAF before you import it. It validates the state of the file, including whether the media is properly linked and readable and whether the timecode, session start, sample rate and frame rate are configured correctly, so you know in advance whether the AAF will import without problems.

AAF Checker sorts issues into warnings and failures. Warnings are cases where the import will work but a professional should review them, such as a misconfigured timecode, session start time, sample rate or frame rate. A failure means the import will not work, because audio media linked to the AAF is missing or unreadable.

No. AAF Checker is a pre-import quality check, not a clip-level content viewer. It reports on the integrity and configuration of the AAF, such as media links, timecode, sample rate and frame rate, rather than the contents of each track. To turn an AAF into a ready-to-mix Pro Tools session, that is fPost.

An AAF imports with missing or offline media when Pro Tools cannot locate the linked files, or when the media is unreadable. Run the AAF through AAF Checker first: it flags missing or unlinked media before you import, so you fix relink problems up front instead of discovering them mid-session.

Yes. AAF Checker is free forever and needs no account; you only need an internet connection to download it. It runs on macOS and checks any AAF locally on your Mac, with nothing uploaded.

No. AAF Checker reads your AAF locally on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded, which matters for material under NDA or embargo where sending a file to an online service is not an option.

AAF Checker checks whether an AAF will import cleanly. It does not show clip-level contents, and it does not convert, repair or import the file. For automated import into a named, template-matched Pro Tools session, that is fPost, the paid step.

AAF Checker tells you, for free, whether an AAF will import cleanly and what to fix first. fPost goes further and automatically builds a mix-ready Pro Tools session from the AAF, named and matched to your template. fPost will also fold AAF Checker’s import-readiness reports in directly in an upcoming release.

No. The Forte 7-day free trial requires no credit card. It starts at your first in-product sign-in, expires on its own, and never auto-charges. You add a card later only when you decide to buy. This applies to both fPost and fMusic.

It expires on its own. Because no card is taken to start it, there is no auto-renewal, no auto-charge and nothing to cancel. When the trial ends you simply add a payment card if you choose to buy; on fMusic you keep Intro, the free tier capped at 8 tracks per import and 1 custom and 1 favorite print.

Yes, two things. AAF Checker is free forever: a native macOS app that checks any AAF for import problems before you import it, with no account and nothing uploaded. And fMusic includes Intro, a free tier capped at 8 tracks per import and 1 custom and 1 favorite print: when the 7-day full-Suite trial ends, you keep Intro at no cost. fPost adds a 7-day free trial with no credit card too.

It depends on the product: every fPost plan, Studio or Suite, on subscription or Lifetime, includes 1 seat; fMusic Studio and Suite both include 2 seats, on subscription or Lifetime. For facility-wide coverage, fPost Enterprise uses floating licenses managed by a license server (LLS).

Licenses are not transferred self-service today. If you change machine, email support@forte-ai.com and the team will sort it out for you. The app verifies your active license at sign-in, so you do need an internet connection when you first sign in on a new Mac.

fPost Studio is EUR 288/year (EUR 24/month billed annually) or EUR 49 month to month, and covers AAF import, session prep and macro-category recognition with standard support. fPost Suite is EUR 348/year (EUR 29/month) or EUR 59 month to month, and adds micro-category recognition, multi-AAF import, per-clip metadata, 24-hour priority support and offline use. Both are 1 seat, and annual billing works out to half the cost of paying monthly. Either tier is also sold as a Lifetime license, paid once: EUR 1,199 for Studio, EUR 1,399 for Suite. Enterprise adds floating licenses, a license server, an SLA and volume pricing.

Yes. fPost Suite launched with the July 2026 update: deeper micro-category recognition, importing multiple AAFs into one session, splitting one AAF across sessions, per-clip metadata and 24-hour priority support.

Yes. fPost Lifetime is a one-time payment: EUR 1,199 for Studio or EUR 1,399 for Suite, with 1 seat and every update to your tier included, no subscription and no renewals. Choose Studio or Suite on the Lifetime card on the pricing page, or in your user area. A future, separate product would not be included, as it would be a new product rather than an update.

Yes, through support@forte-ai.com for now: moving from Studio to Suite, or from monthly to yearly, is set up by the team and you pay the difference. Subscription payments do not count toward a Lifetime license: to switch, you buy Lifetime at its full price and the subscription is cancelled so it does not renew.

fMusic Studio is EUR 108/year (EUR 9/month billed annually) or EUR 18 month to month. fMusic Suite is EUR 132/year (EUR 11/month) or EUR 22 month to month, and adds the professional modules such as Organize and print preview. Both include 2 seats, and annual billing works out to half the cost of paying monthly. Either tier is also sold as a Lifetime license, paid once: EUR 499 for Studio, EUR 699 for Suite. fMusic for Logic Pro is a separate one-time purchase at EUR 249.

Yes. The Lifetime license is a one-time payment, EUR 499 for Studio or EUR 699 for Suite, and includes every update to the tier you bought, with 2 seats. A future, separate product would not be included, as it would be a new product rather than an update.

You can switch to the Lifetime license at any time, but there is no upgrade pricing: monthly and yearly payments do not accumulate as credit toward Lifetime, and there are no discounted upgrade offers, because the subscription and the Lifetime license are two separate offers. To switch, you buy the Lifetime license at its full price and cancel your subscription so it does not renew.

Yes, any time. You switch from the user area and pay the difference; your seats and setup carry over as they are. Suite adds the professional modules on top of everything Studio does.

Yes. On fMusic, single users can change plan self-service in the user area; on fPost, plan changes go through support@forte-ai.com for now. Teams and facilities can arrange it through sales@forte-ai.com. Upgrading fMusic Studio to Suite is prorated, and so are fPost moves from Studio to Suite or from monthly to yearly; moving from a subscription to Lifetime starts fresh, with no credit for what you have already paid.

Yes. Forte offers 40% off for students and educators, with proof of enrollment in a relevant audio course or of teaching one; on fPost the discount applies to subscriptions, not to Lifetime. Contact Forte before purchasing to verify eligibility. The free 7-day trial, with no credit card, is open to everyone in the meantime.

Prices are in EUR and include VAT. Payments run through Stripe, so you can pay by credit or debit card, PayPal, bank transfer and the other methods Stripe supports. Enterprise facilities can arrange purchasing through sales@forte-ai.com.

Standard support, included with fPost Studio and all fMusic plans, targets a response within 48 hours. fPost Suite includes priority support with a 24-hour target, and fPost Enterprise includes a contractual SLA. You can reach the team any time at support@forte-ai.com.