IMPORTANT: Zrythm is undergoing major refactoring in this branch - if you are looking for a usable version see the v1 branch
a highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation
Zrythm is a digital audio workstation tailored for both professionals and beginners, offering an intuitive interface and robust functionality.
Key features include:
- Streamlined editing workflows
- Flexible tools for creative expression
- Limitless automation capabilities
- Powerful mixing features
- Chord assistance for musical composition
- Support for various plugin and file formats
Zrythm is free software written in C++20 using the Qt6/QML and JUCE8 frameworks.
- Object looping, cloning, linking and stretching
- Adaptive snapping
- Multiple lanes per track
- Bounce anything to audio or MIDI
- Piano roll (MIDI editor) with chord integration, drum mode and a lollipop velocity editor
- Audio editor with part editing (including in external app) and adjustable gain/fades
- Event viewers (list editors) with editable object parameters
- Per-context object functions
- Audio/MIDI/automation recording with options to punch in/out, record on MIDI input and create takes
- Device-bindable parameters for external control
- Wide variety of track types for every purpose
- Signal manipulation with signal groups, aux sends and direct anywhere-to-anywhere connections
- In-context listening by dimming other tracks
- Automate anything using automation events or CV signal from modulator plugins and macro knobs
- Detachable views for multi-monitor setups
- Searchable preferences
- Support for LV2/CLAP/VST2/VST3/AU/LADSPA/DSSI plugins, SFZ/SF2 SoundFonts, Type 0 and 1 MIDI files, and almost every audio file format
- Flexible built-in file and plugin browsers
- Optional plugin sandboxing (bridging)
- Stem export
- Chord pad with built-in and user presets, including the ability to generate chords from scales
- Automatic project backups
- Undoable user actions with serializable undo history
- Hardware-accelerated UI
- SIMD-optimized DSP
- Cross-platform, cross-audio/MIDI backend and cross-architecture
- Available in multiple languages including Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, French and German
For a full list of features, see the Features page on our website.
See INSTALL.rst for build instructions. Prebuilt installers available at https://www.zrythm.org/en/download.html.
See the user manual.
See CONTRIBUTING.md.
See HACKING.md and the developer docs.
See PACKAGING.md.
See our forum.
See Issues on GitLab.
https://www.zrythm.org/releases
See COPYING for general copying conditions and TRADEMARKS.md for our trademark policy.
If you would like to support this project please donate below or purchase a binary installer from https://www.zrythm.org/en/download.html - creating a DAW takes years of work and contributions enable us to spend more time working on the project.
- liberapay.com/Zrythm
- paypal.me/zrythmdaw
- opencollective.com/zrythm
- Bitcoin (BTC):
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