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Elektroid

Sample and MIDI device manager.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

Features described in its Flathub listing, in its GitHub repository and on its official website: MIDI support.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Sample and MIDI device manager” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Sample tagging” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Elektroid is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Elektroid is a sample and MIDI device manager. It includes the `elektroid` GUI application and the `elektroid-cli` CLI application. Elektroid started as a FLOSS Elektron Transfer alternative and it has ended up supporting other devices from different vendors in the same fashion. These are the supported devices: Arturia MicroBrute Arturia MicroFreak Casio CZ-101 Elektron Analog Four MKI, MKII and Keys Elektron Analog Heat MKI, MKII and +FX Elektron Analog Rytm MKI and MKII Elektron Digitakt I and II Elektron Digitone I and II and Digitone Keys Elektron Model:Cycles Elektron Model:Samples Elektron Monomachine MKII Elektron Syntakt Eventide ModFactor, PitchFactor, TimeFactor, Space and H9 KORG padKONTROL KORG prologue, minilogue xd and NTS-1 (units only) KORG Volca Sample and Volca Sample 2 Moog Little Phatty and Slim Phatty Novation Summit and Peak Samplers implementing MIDI SDS Other interesting features are: Autosampler with SFZ file generation Sample playback, recording and basic edition Sample loop points edition with zero crossing detection Sample tagging Sample zoom Search within devices SysEx transmission and reception

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 8 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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