Zrythm

Zrythm is a digital audio workstation designed to be featureful and easy to use. It allows limitless automation, supports LV2 plugins, works with the JACK audio backend, provides chord assistance, is free software and can be used in English, French, Portuguese, Japanese and German.

It is written in C using the GTK+3 toolkit and uses the meson build system.

More info can be found at https://www.zrythm.org

Current state

Zrythm is currently in alpha. Most essential DAW features are implemented and we are working towards a stable release.

Supported plugin protocols

• LV2, VST2 (Experimental)

Supported backends

• Audio: JACK, SDL2, RtAudio (ALSA/WASAPI/CoreAudio)
• MIDI: JACK, WindowsMME, RtMidi (ALSA sequencer/Windows MME/CoreMIDI)

Supported platforms

• GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, MacOS

Building and Installation

See INSTALL.md.

Using

See the user manual, which is also available in PDF, epub and HTML-zip.

Packaging

See PACKAGING.md.

Contributing

For contributing guidelines see CONTRIBUTING.md. We also recommend taking a look at the Developer Docs

Please submit patches and bug reports below.

Mailing lists

user@zrythm.org, dev@zrythm.org

Bug Tracker

https://redmine.zrythm.org/projects/zrythm/issues

Releases

https://www.zrythm.org/releases

License

Zrythm is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Zrythm is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

The full text of the license can be found in the COPYING file.

For the copyright years, Zrythm uses a range (“2008-2010”) instead of listing individual years (“2008, 2009, 2010”) if and only if every year in the range, inclusive, is a “copyrightable” year that would be listed individually.

Some files, where specified, are licensed under different licenses.

Support

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 thousands of hours of work and contributions enable us to spend more time working on the project.

• liberapay.com/Zrythm
• paypal.me/zrythm

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