Tag Archives: DAW

MODICIA OS ~ Multimedia Digital Workstation

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MODICIA O.S. is a complete multimedia workstation for creatives, professionals, and curious users. Runs live from USB with no installation required. Stable, multilingual, and packed with ready-to-use tools.

✨ Key Features

🔃 Live system — boot from USB without modifying your PC

🎥 Multimedia suite — video, audio, graphics, photography

🗂 Office suite — documents and business tools

🧰 Curated software — no duplicates, no broken tools

🖥 Optimized interface — compact layout with visual alerts

🌍 Multilingual — over 30 languages supported

🛡 Invisible fallback logic — safety and stability

🔗 Clickable license buttons — semitransparent, linking to local control files

🎯 Ideal Users

🎬 Filmmakers, editors, streamers

🎧 Musicians, podcasters, sound designers

🎨 Designers, illustrators, photographers

🧑‍🏫 Teachers, writers, office professionals

🧑‍💻 Students and beginners

🐧 Open source users seeking localization and compliance

📦 Included Applications (Examples)

Category Applications

🎞 Video Kdenlive, Shotcut, OBS Studio

🎚 Audio Audacity, Ardour, LMMS

🖌 Graphics GIMP, Inkscape, Krita

📷 Photo Darktable, RawTherapee

📝 Office LibreOffice, PDF Studio

🌐 Web Firefox ESR, Thunderbird, FileZilla

🧹 Utilities GParted, Timeshift, BleachBit

🚀 How to Use

📥 Download the ISO from modiciaos.cloud

🔧 Write it to USB using Rufus or Balena Etcher

💻 Boot the live system on any compatible PC

🎉 Start creating — no installation, no subscriptions, no limits

www.modiciaos.cloud
sourceforge.net/projects/modicia-o-s

OpenDAW ~ Online Digital Audio Workstation

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openDAW is a next-generation web-based Digital Audio Workstation designed to democratize music production by making professional creation tools accessible to everyone. Built entirely in TypeScript with Web Audio API, it runs in your browser with no required login and no vendor lock-in. Open-source under AGPL-3 and designed with education at its core.

opendaw.org
github.com/andremichelle/opendaw

Cakewalk ~ Free Digital Audio Workstation

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The most complete music production package

The creative experience. Only Cakewalk by BandLab offers: advanced technology, effortless workflow, and an interface that amplifies inspiration.

Compose ~ Easily compose complete songs and performances with creative songwriting tools and instruments

Record ~ Capture inspired performances with pristine quality and unlimited audio and MIDI tracks

Edit ~ Fix mistakes, arrange parts, and manipulate pitch, time, and any other aspect of your recordings

Mix ~ Achieve pristine pro-studio sounds and create big, clear, dynamic mixes with advanced mixing tools

Master ~ Polish your finished mixes to perfection with built-in mastering tools

Share ~ Export and publish your songs directly to YouTube, SoundCloud, Facebook and more

www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk
https://bandlab.github.io/cakewalk/docs/FAQ/images/screenshot-cbb.png

GridSound ~ Online DAW

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GridSound is a work-in-progress open-source digital audio workstation developed with HTML5 and more precisely with the new Web Audio API. The application can be used at gridsound.com/daw it’s also possible to create an account on gridsound.com to save your compositions online to retrieve them from anywhere at any time.

github.com/gridsound/daw

DawDreamer ~ Audio Processing Python Framework

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DawDreamer is an audio-processing Python framework supporting core DAW features and beyond:

  • Composing graphs of multi-channel audio processors
  • Audio playback
  • VST instruments and effects (with UI editing and state loading/saving)
  • FAUST effects and polyphonic instruments
  • Time-stretching and looping, optionally according to Ableton Live warp markers
  • Pitch-warping
  • Parameter automation at audio-rate and at pulses-per-quarter-note
  • Parameter automation saving in absolute audio-rate time
  • MIDI playback in absolute time and PPQN time
  • MIDI file export in absolute time
  • Rendering and saving multiple processors simultaneously
  • Support for the Faust Box and Signal APIs
  • Transpiling Faust code to JAX/Flax and other target languages (C++, Rust, Wasm, etc.)
  • Machine learning experiments with QDax
  • Multiprocessing support
  • Full support on macOS, Windows, Linux, Google Colab, and Ubuntu Dockerfile

DawDreamer’s foundation is JUCE, with a user-friendly Python interface thanks to pybind11. DawDreamer evolved from an earlier VSTi audio “renderer”, RenderMan.

github.com/DBraun/DawDreamer

DawVert ~ The DAW ConVERTer

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DawVert is a Project File Converter

github.com/SatyrDiamond/DawVert

Anvil Studio ~ Freeware Digital Audio Workstation

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Anvil Studio™ is a free Windows 11, 10 / 8.x / 7 program designed for people who want to:

  • record music with MIDI and Audio equipment
  • compose music for MIDI and Audio equipment
  • sequence music with MIDI equipment
  • play with music using a computer, and
  • print sheet music from standard MIDI files with the optional Print-Sheet accessory.

anvilstudio.com

GarageBand ~ MacOS / IOS DAW

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Looking for a great Apple IOS Digital Audio Workstatation? Get Garageband!

www.apple.com/lae/mac/garageband

Wave Agent ~ Freeware Audio Workstation

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Designed for Production Sound Mixers and Post Production Editors, Wave Agent provides a comprehensive and indispensable range of tools for preparing audio files for problem-free passage through complex production workflows. Available for Mac and Windows.

www.sounddevices.com

WavePad ~ Digital Audio Workstation

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Get it Free. This free audio editor is available for non-commercial use only. WavePad free audio editing software does not expire and includes many of the features of the master’s version. If you are using it at home, you can download the free music editing software here. You can always upgrade to the master’s edition at a later time, which has additional effects and features for the serious sound engineer. No signup required.

www.nch.com.au/wavepad

Stargate ~ Open Source Digital Audio Workstation

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Stargate is an all-in-one DAW and plugin suite, designed to be a comprehensive solution for music production, with a focus on providing unique and innovative features, especially for EDM production.

Features:

  • A digital audio workstation (DAW) with a powerful pattern-based workflow
  • A comprehensive suite of built-in instrument and effect plugins
  • A basic wave editor
  • Powerful track routing matrix with easy sidechaining
  • Modular mixer architecture. Mixer channels are a type of plugin that can be chosen per track send, mix and match plugins, or skip them when not needed
  • Runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, x86 and ARM. Can be ported to other platforms if there is sufficient demand
  • Everything you need to create music in a single package, no need to install additional software
  • Revolutionary CPU efficiency for DAW and plugins, minimum recommended hardware: Raspberry Pi 4, or a 15 year old laptop with a dual core CPU, 1GB of RAM and a 720p display.
  • Support for display resolution from 720p to 4k and above.
  • Optional portable flash drive install on Windows and MacOS
  • Broad audio and MIDI hardware support using Portaudio and Portmidi

github.com/stargateaudio/stargate
github.com/stargatedaw

AudioMass ~ Opensource Web Audio Editor

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AudioMass lets you record, or use your existing audio tracks, and modify them by trimming, cutting, pasting or applying a plethora of effects, from compression and paragraphic equalizers to reverb, delay and distortion effects. AudioMass also supports more than 20 hotkeys combinations and a dynamic responsive interface to ensure ease of use and that your productivity remains high. it is written solely in plain old-school javascript, weights approximately 65kb and has no backend or framework dependencies.

  • Loading Audio, navigating the waveform, zoom and pan
  • Visualization of frequency levels
  • Peak and distortion signaling
  • Cutting/Pasting/Trimming parts of the audio
  • Inverting and Reversing Audio
  • Exporting to mp3
  • Modifying volume levels
  • Fade In/Out
  • Compressor
  • Normalization
  • Reverb
  • Delay
  • Distortion
  • Pitch Shift
  • Keeps track of states so you can undo mistakes
  • Offline support!

audiomass.co