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YADAW

Digital Audio Workstation for prototyping.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source

Overview

YADAW is a music production program, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: multitrack editing, MIDI support and audio plugins (VST, LV2…).

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
  • “Digital Audio Workstation for prototyping” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “Multi-track audio recording and editing” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “MIDI input with piano roll editor” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
  • “CLAP, LV2 and VST3 plugin hosting” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of YADAW is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (AGPL-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

Yadaw is a minimal rust-based digital audio workstation built to not crash as much as the alternatives. It mainly depends on external plugins, and has no inbuilt plugins of its own to keep the base light. Features: Multi-track audio recording and editing MIDI input with piano roll editor CLAP, LV2 and VST3 plugin hosting Automation lanes WAV import/export Cross-platform support No built-in plugins. No MP3 export (WAV only).

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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