Pick the edition that fits the job.
Three Premium Editions, same core engine — plus a FREE fallback version. Unlock the higher features for just the price difference any time you outgrow your tier.
Tier 00
FREE
fallback version
Allows existing users to still work if they have license issues.
Headline features
- Fresh cross-platform UI/UX with full-on Personalization
- Blazing-fast search, audition & transfer
- Full metadata importing & UCS importing
- HTTP path playback / streaming, iXML read & write
- Pitch shift baked into transferred files
- Quick database hot-swapping
- 6 months FREE CloudPack streaming
Limits
Transfers capped at 48 kHz / 24-bit, one file at a time. One search box. Minimal metadata fields. Split-file playback off.
Tier 01
Lite
basehead on the cheap
Built for: video editors, musicians, music editors, re-recording mixers.
Adds to FREE
- AI Generator — SFX & Text-to-Speech (ElevenLabs)
- Spectral Overlays on the Waveform
- Basic Target App support with Spot to Track
- NAG screens removed
- Chained search blocks + advanced search modes
- basehead Connect VST3/AU/AAX plugin (2-channel)
- Surround playback & transfer
- Imports: rescan / merge / combine
- Channel extraction, Sum2Mono, M/S, Timecode
- Multi-file transfer, target naming, file reversing
- External Wave Editor support
- Mini waveforms + mini art on Results List
- Reads Custom DB
[fields] - 12 months CloudPack streaming + free updates
- Ticket System + Slack support
Tier 02
Standard
the middle child
Built for: sound effects, dialog, and Foley editors.
Adds to Lite
- Projects Node — flags in-project audio & searches past projects
- MIDI Triggering via USB keyboard or drum pad
- Destructive Editing and Offline Processing
- Multi-channel extraction
- Dual Target App & Wave Editor
- Multiple Results Lists & Taglists
- Mash & Replace + Save As…
- basehead Connect up to 16-channel
- Results List & NodeTree snapshots
- Full metadata editing in Details Panel
- Float any tab or panel
- NodeTree (Groups, Favorite Searches)
- Imports Watcher for changed folders
- Skip Silence + Import/Export Text Files
- Marker, Chunk Viewer, BurnIn & Meter panels
- Process Panel with VST3 plugin slots
- Spot with Handles + Follow Session Folder
- Drive Remapping
- Create Custom DB
[fields] - Add album art / images to files
Tier 03 · Top
Ultra
beast mode
Built for: sound designers, audio pros, SFX vendors & librarians.
Adds to Standard
- Bounce Audio with full Recall
- AI Agent Panel — add your API Keys to unlock advanced features
- Tab Clusters — save multiple search tabs as one recallable group
- Collections Node in the NodeTree
- Detect Duplicate Candidates — finds the same file across folders
- Metadata auto-complete while typing
- Dynamic / user-definable Details display
- Thesaurus searching
- Insanely powerful Batch Renamer
- Mixer Panel — solo / mute / volume
- Metadata Viewer Panel
- Fully modular UI — rearrange & dock everything
- pitchFX axis on Process Panel
- SyncPoint setting & spotting
- Physical file reversing before transfer
- Performance Take Recording
- Transfers up to 192 kHz / 32-bit