Open Source Mac Digital Audio Workstations (DAW)

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Programs like Audacity are also called open source software, because their source code is available for anyone to study or use. There are thousands of other free and open source programs, including the Firefox web browser, the LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice office suites and entire Linux-based operating systems such as Ubuntu

FL Studio by Image-Line is a complete digital audio workstation (DAW) designed to turn your musical ideas into professional-quality tracks with ease. Trusted by world-renowned artists like Martin Garrix, Mustard, and Boi-1da, it’s built for producers of every genre — from EDM and hip-hop to pop and cinematic music. With an intuitive interface and powerful workflow, you can start creating in minutes while exploring endless possibilities as your skills grow. FL Studio comes packed with over 100 instruments and effects, a massive sound library, and world-class tools for composition, recording, and mastering. Its lifetime free updates ensure you’ll always have the latest features without extra cost. Whether on desktop or mobile, FL Studio delivers a fast, fun, and flexible production experience for beginners and pros alike.

Sneedacity (formerly Audacity) is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Sneedacity aims to provide a telemetry-free experience while otherwise being up-to-date with Audacity's original codebase, with minor improvements being added as (s)needed by contributors and volunteers like you at large. Sneedacity is free software licensed under GPL, version 2. Macros for chaining commands and batch processing. Scripting in Python, Perl, or any language that supports named pipes. Nyquist Very powerful built-in scripting language that may also be used to create plug-ins. Editing multi-track editing with sample accuracy and arbitrary sample rates. Accessibility for VI users. Analysis and visualization tools to analyze audio or other signal data.

Tone.js is an open source Web Audio framework for creating interactive music in the browser. It has advanced scheduling capabilities, synths, effects and more. Tone.js is built to be useful and familiar to both musicians and audio programmers. It has common DAW (digital audio workstation) features for those looking to schedule events and tinker with pre-built synths and effects. There’s also a great selection of high-performance building blocks for signal-processing programmers familiar with languages like Max/MSP. With Tone.js they can create their own synthesizers, effects, and complex control signals.

"ISO Unix Linux OS Distribution This distribution comes with all the optimizations, customizations, and exclusive configurations already in place, allowing you to use it right out of the box. You'll have everything you need to work immediately, without complicated setups, and with the best professional software already installed and optimized. It's built for a complete desktop experience, ideal for professionals and advanced enthusiasts such as musicians, graphic designers, and video makers. You won't have to search for or configure anything; all the best tools available are already present and ready for you to start producing."

Frinika is a free, complete music workstation software for Linux, Windows, Mac OSX and other operating systems running Java. It features sequencer, soft-synths, realtime effects and audio recording.

CtrlrX based editor for Roland SUPER JD SYNTHESIZER MODULE JD-990

The Freeverb3VST is a package of VST DSP effect plugins utilizing the Freeverb3 signal processing library. Many types of audio processing effects including high quality reverbs and impulse response convolution processors are available.

This is a Stanalone and DAW Interface to program and control the Micromonsta 2 Hardware Synthesizer. This project is unofficial and not linked with nor endorsed by Audiothingies Company. I have developed this interface at first to use with this Synthesizer that I own for my personal use, all is working well on my configurations (PC and MAC). I have decided to publish it for the peoples who want to use it, free of charge. It may be not perfect and is delivered as it, without any warranty that it will work fine on your configuration. I will not provide any support about issues on specific OS or DAW as there is too much software and versions and I don't own them all to verify ;)

This Update to the first release comes with the latest Low Latency kernel pre-installed as well as the Generic kernel and by many requests the MixBus DAW is back in place of Ardour. Minor bugs were fixed as well as software added. Here is whats new. 1) Mixbus 8 (Fully Functioning Demo) 2) Tuner Added 3) Pearl Extras Installer. Great for Producers coming from a Windows system using VST's. The script will install all packages needed to start using those plugins with searching google on 4-5 how to before accually getting to work. Works flawlessly with Carla. 4) Easily control Samba Network Shares with our updated GUI + Much More :-) This release based on Ubuntu 22.04 as its base, is made for all musicians that want commercial quality recording at home. Very stable and has the look and feel of not only OS x but Windows 10 as well. Included is everything you need to create your own music as well as import tracks to create your own mixes.

** WFSCollider is now distributed as a Quark for SuperCollider, the binaries featured here are not supported anymore and will not work on modern macOS machines ** https://supercollider.github.io/ https://www.gameoflife.nl/software/

MiriamStudio is a DAW intended to be as big as an Operating System

This is an interface specification for DAW application. It will help to divide user interface implementation and DAW data processing engine. This project goal is discuss about it and implement interface library to DAW application vendor and developers. Please join this project if you have interest it!