Free Digital Audio Workstations

Free cross-platform DAW supporting VST plugins, MIDI, and lossless audio. Offers music loopers and sequencers with privacy, no ads, and offline capability.

Full-featured music studio offering sound library, virtual drummers, and instrument presets available on Mac and iOS. Ideal for all skill levels.

Cakewalk, formerly SONAR, is a comprehensive audio software for music composition, audio recording, editing, mixing and mastering. It features a full suite of high quality audio and MIDI effects and instruments and composition tools ranging from drum sequencer and piano roll...

Zrythm is a digital audio workstation designed to be featureful and easy to use.

Bespoke is a software modular synthesizer. It contains a bunch of modules, which you can connect together to create sounds.

Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework. Target platform is GNU/Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio, and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI, are the main infrastructures for...

Make music online with a powerful set of tools ranging from synthesizers and samplers to mixers, delays, reverb and much more. AudioTool is an advanced, collaborative DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) built for the browser.

Every track includes real time equalization and dynamics processing to sweeten and fine tune your mix. This is in addition to your six real time track effects, making Fairlight far more powerful than other digital audio workstation software!

Waveform is a commercial, cross-platform DAW. With a focus on design and composition, it offers tools to greatly simplify everything from initial inspiration to the final mix.

OpenMPT (short hand for Open ModPlug Tracker) is a popular tracker software for Windows. OpenMPT is completely free and allows you to create and play back some great music on your computer. Based on the original ModPlug Tracker written by Olivier Lapicque, OpenMPT is free...

Free digital audio workstation for musicians featuring comprehensive tracking, sequencing, editing, and mixing, VST plugin support, multi-touch, and real-time collaboration.

Rosegarden is a well-rounded audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.

Buzz is the first ever "easy to use" free modular software based synthesizer. What this means is that the entire system is based on objects, which may be routed in a modular fashion, giving you the freedom to be as creative as you want.

Compose stunning songs with 1,500+ sounds, 64 audio and MIDI tracks, and a mixing console with effects ready for both beginners and musicians.

Efflux is a Progressive Web Application allowing you to create music within your browser, either on- or offline on anything from a phone to desktop machine.

Psycle is a Music tracker (like FastTracker 2 or Impulse Tracker) combined with plugin modularity. It supports its own plugin API, the VST2 plugin standard, and a tracker style sampler playback.

A beginner-friendly music making app.

Soundtrap is a freemium online cross-platform digital audio workstation for browsers that allows users to create music or podcasts.

Stargate is a holistic audio production solution, with everything you need to make music on a computer.

Music Studio offers a complete music production environment for the iPad/iPhone/iPod touch with features and a sound quality previously only known to desktop applications and expensive audio hardware.

A lightweight, cross-platform DAW built in Rust with egui, designed for sound design and audio prototyping.

Podium is a modern digital audio workstation (DAW) for Windows. It supports recording and editing of audio and MIDI, and hosts VST instrument and effect plugins.

Make high-quality music with an AI assistant in a cutting-edge, online DAW. WavTool combines a powerful and extensible, modular sound system with AI advancements to make it easy to create music online while still providing infinite flexibility through a plugin-based design that...

Open-source DAW for GNU/Linux with MIDI and audio sequencing, LV2, VST, DSSI plugin support, multitrack recording, and non-destructive editing.

MultitrackStudio is a full-featured audio/MIDI multitrack recording software. It combines a multitrack recorder, a mixer, lots of effects and a MIDI sequencer in one package: everything that's needed to turn your computer into a digital multitrack music recording studio.