Recording, editing and mixing audio; an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Avid Pro Tools, rebuilt in pure Rust.
A complete digital audio workstation that runs natively on macOS, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, and
in the browser. Multitrack editing, a full mixer with plugins, sends and automation, MIDI, recording
and bouncing, and every action scriptable from the command line or by an AI agent.
The Edit window: tracks, waveforms, MIDI, rulers, markers and the transport, playing the built-in demo song (every sound in it is synthesised by SoundCraft itself).
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SoundCraft follows the workflow audio engineers already know: an Edit window for arranging and
editing, a Mix window for balancing, edit modes, tools, playlists, memory locations, AudioSuite
processing and the rest. If you've spent years in that workflow, your hands should already know
where things are.
Mix window. Ten inserts and ten sends per track, busses and aux inputs, master faders, VCAs, routing folders, solo-in-place with implicit solo, and meters with peak hold.
MIDI editor. Instrument tracks with built-in synths, a piano roll with a velocity lane, step input, quantize, transpose, and Standard MIDI File import and export.
Automation and markers. Breakpoint automation for volume, pan, mute, sends and every plugin parameter, written live in Write, Touch and Latch, plus memory locations and a big counter.
Everywhere. Signed builds for macOS (universal), Windows (x64, x86, Arm), Linux (AppImage, deb, rpm, Flatpak), FreeBSD, and a WebAssembly build that runs in the browser.
Video. A picture track with thumbnails and a Video window that follows the playhead, decoding H.264, ProRes and Motion JPEG in pure Rust, with timecode burn-in and sync offset.
Surround and immersive. Main and bus formats from stereo to 9.1.6 and Ambisonics, a surround panner with divergence and height, object/bed routing and a Renderer window with live speaker levels.
Notation. A Score Editor for MIDI tracks, MusicXML export for Sibelius and other notation programs, and printable engraved scores.
Your plugins too. CLAP, VST3 and Audio Units, with their own editors, their state saved in the session, and every instance created off the audio thread.
Feature tour
Editing: Shuffle, Slip, Spot and Grid modes; Smart, Selector, Grabber, Trim, Pencil, Zoom and
Scrubber tools; cut, copy, paste, duplicate, repeat, shift, insert silence, separate (at
selection, on grid, at transients), heal, consolidate, strip silence, nudge; fades and
crossfades in five shapes, drawn straight from the clip corners; playlists with comping lanes;
clip gain lines; edit groups; single-key Commands Focus shortcuts; undo for everything.
Mixing: fader and pan with automation, pre/post sends, busses, aux inputs, master faders,
VCA masters, routing folders, solo modes, mute and solo groups, phase invert and trim, clip
effects, and automatic plugin delay compensation.
Automation: volume, pan, mute, send and every plugin parameter; Write, Touch, Latch and
Trim passes recorded live from the faders; thin, glide, coalesce and convert to clip gain.
Plugins: 7-band and 1-band EQ, compressor/limiter, expander/gate, de-esser, maximizer,
channel strip, room and plate reverbs, mod delay, chorus, flanger, phaser, saturator, lo-fi,
rectifier, pitch shifter, time shift, gain, trim, invert, DC removal, signal generator, dither,
a subtractive synth and a drum synth, all original. CLAP plugins load too. Any processor
runs offline as AudioSuite, and user presets save per plugin.
MIDI: instrument and MIDI tracks, a piano-roll MIDI editor with a velocity lane, an event
list, a score view, step input, quantize, transpose, real-time properties, Standard MIDI Files,
and Audio-to-MIDI from a sung or played melody.
Recording: punch in on a selection or on the fly, pre/post-roll, loop recording with a
playlist per take, input monitoring through the full channel strip, and autosave with recovery.
Time and tempo: Bars|Beats, Min:Secs, Timecode (every rate, drop-frame included),
Feet+Frames and Samples; tempo and meter maps with a tempo editor; linear, parabolic and
S-curve tempo ramps; key signatures and detected chords; Beat Detective and Identify Beat;
pitch-preserving Elastic warping.
Audio files: WAV/BWF/RF64, AIFF/AIFC and FLAC in and out; MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, ALAC, CAF
and the audio of MP4/MOV movies in. Any sample rate and bit depth.
Bounce: mix or stems to WAV, AIFF or FLAC at 16/24/32-bit float with dither and
normalisation, reporting peak, true peak and integrated loudness (LUFS).
Fast: a parallel mix engine, copy-on-write undo, and a UI that holds 120 frames per second
with seventy-odd tracks playing.
Getting started
Download a build from the releases page, or build
from source with a recent stable Rust:
git clone https://github.com/storytold/soundcraft
cd soundcraft
cargo run --release -p soundcraft -- --demo # opens the demo song
Linux needs the ALSA headers (libasound2-dev on Debian/Ubuntu, alsa-lib-devel on Fedora).
The web build:
cd apps/soundcraft-web && trunk serve --release # then open http://127.0.0.1:8080
Useful shortcuts: Space play/stop, ⌘= Mix/Edit,
F1–F4 edit modes, F5–F10 tools, ⌘E
separate, ⌘D duplicate, Enter new marker, ⌘⇧N
new tracks. Setup › Keyboard Shortcuts lists them all.
For agents and scripts
Everything you can click is also a command with an id and JSON parameters, and the same commands
are reachable from the menus, the keyboard, the command line, a JSON control channel and an
MCP server. Programmatic calls never open dialogs, and
session.inspect reports exactly what changed, so an agent can check its own work.
# Headless: load the demo, turn the kick down, add an EQ, bounce.
soundcraft-cli run --demo \
--cmd 'mix.volume={"track":"Kick","db":-6}' \
--cmd 'mix.insert={"track":"Bass","plugin":"eq_7band"}' \
--bounce mix.wav
# Drive the running app.
soundcraft --demo --control 7801 &
soundcraft-cli app --port 7801 transport.play
soundcraft-cli app --port 7801 ui.screenshot '{"path":"shot.png"}'
# Give Claude a DAW.
claude mcp add soundcraft -- soundcraft-cli mcp --demo
SoundCraft is a Cargo workspace of small crates with strict layering: nothing below the UI knows
about egui, so the interface could be swapped for another one.
Audio devices (CoreAudio, WASAPI, ALSA, WebAudio) and recording
soundcraft-automation
MCP server and control-channel client
soundcraft-ui-egui
The user interface
The code never panics on bad input: errors are values, and a malformed file or a bad agent call
produces a message, never a crash. cargo xtask ci runs formatting, clippy, the tests, the asset
and layering checks and the WebAssembly build.
Status and roadmap
SoundCraft is pre-alpha, and close to its first alpha: it covers 94 % of the incumbent's menu
items and roughly two thirds of its features in depth. The core works and is fun to use, and plenty is still missing. The
honest status, what's next and our effort estimates are in ROADMAP.md; the
menu-by-menu comparison is in docs/parity.md. Bug reports and wish lists are
very welcome, in the issues or on Discord.
Downloads
Download SoundCraft from GitHub: the latest release has every build listed below, and all releases has earlier versions and their notes. <ver> in the file names is the version number, and SHA256SUMS.txt lists a checksum for every file.
Windows
Build
Installer
Portable
x64 (64-bit Intel/AMD)
soundcraft-<ver>-windows-x64.msi
soundcraft-<ver>-windows-x64-portable.zip
arm64 (Snapdragon and other ARM PCs)
soundcraft-<ver>-windows-arm64.msi
soundcraft-<ver>-windows-arm64-portable.zip
x86 (32-bit)
soundcraft-<ver>-windows-x86.msi
soundcraft-<ver>-windows-x86-portable.zip
Installers and executables are code-signed.
macOS
Build
File
Notes
App, universal (Apple silicon + Intel)
soundcraft-<ver>-macos-universal.dmg
Signed and notarized
Command-line tool, universal
soundcraft-cli-<ver>-macos-universal.zip
Signed and notarized
Linux
Format
x86_64
aarch64 (ARM64)
Notes
AppImage
soundcraft-<ver>-linux-x86_64.AppImage
soundcraft-<ver>-linux-aarch64.AppImage
Runs anywhere; updates itself with AppImageUpdate (.zsync files)
Flatpak
soundcraft-<ver>-linux-x86_64.flatpak
soundcraft-<ver>-linux-aarch64.flatpak
Sandboxed; flatpak install --user <file>
Debian/Ubuntu
soundcraft-<ver>-linux-x86_64.deb
soundcraft-<ver>-linux-aarch64.deb
Fedora/RHEL/openSUSE
soundcraft-<ver>-linux-x86_64.rpm
soundcraft-<ver>-linux-aarch64.rpm
Tarball
soundcraft-<ver>-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
soundcraft-<ver>-linux-aarch64.tar.gz
Unpack anywhere
FreeBSD
Build
File
x86_64
soundcraft-<ver>-freebsd-x86_64.tar.gz
Web (WebAssembly)
Build
File
Notes
Static site
soundcraft-web-<ver>.zip
Runs in a modern browser; host it on any static server
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SoundCraft is one of the Crafting Apps: free, open-source creative tools from the
ArtCraft team, each written from scratch in Rust and each able to
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Image editing: layers, masks, type and real PSD files
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Whatever your medium and however long you've been at it, you're welcome here.
SoundCraft is dual-licensed under MIT or Apache-2.0, at your option.
Copyright (c) 2026 ArtCraft Team and the SoundCraft contributors. Required notices are in NOTICE.
Bundled fonts, icons, images and other assets keep their own open licenses; each one is listed
with its author, source and license in ATTRIBUTION.md.
Every icon in the interface is drawn in code, the app icon is original, and the demo song and the
screenshots' audio are synthesised by SoundCraft itself, so there are no samples or artwork from
anyone else in this repository.
The ArtCraft name, wordmark and logos in docs/brand/ are trademarks of the
ArtCraft Team and are not covered by this license. They may be used only unmodified, and only as
part of this repository and SoundCraft, under docs/brand/LICENSE-brand.txt.
Forks and modified versions must remove them.
Avid and Pro Tools are trademarks or registered trademarks of Avid Technology, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. SoundCraft is an independent, open-source project and is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Avid Technology, Inc.; these names are used only to describe the workflows it is compatible with.
Adobe, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Lightroom, Acrobat, After Effects and InDesign are trademarks or registered trademarks of Adobe Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. SoundCraft is an independent, open-source project and is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Adobe Inc.; these names are used only to describe the workflows it is compatible with.
What is this?SoundCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Avid Pro Tools built entirely in pure Rust — a full digital audio workstation for recording, editing and mixing audio.
Is this a full DAW app, or just a library?It's a complete standalone desktop/web application with an Edit window, Mix window, MIDI editor and all the usual DAW workflow, not a library or plugin.
How do I get it running?Download a signed build from the GitHub releases page (installer, portable zip, AppImage, deb, rpm or Flatpak depending on OS), or build it yourself from source with a recent stable Rust toolchain.
How finished is this, can I use it for real work yet?It's pre-alpha: it covers about 94% of Pro Tools' menu items but only roughly two-thirds of its features in depth, so expect gaps outside the core workflow.
Which platforms does it actually run on?Signed builds exist for macOS (universal), Windows (x64, x86, Arm), Linux (AppImage, deb, rpm, Flatpak), FreeBSD, and there's a WebAssembly build that runs in a browser.
Can an AI agent control SoundCraft?Yes — every action is also a command with an id and JSON parameters, reachable from menus, keyboard, the command line, a JSON control channel or an MCP server, and session.inspect lets an agent verify what changed.
What plugin formats can I load?SoundCraft hosts CLAP, VST3 and Audio Units plugins with their own editors and saved state, plus a full set of original built-in processors like EQ, compressors, reverbs and synths.
Is SoundCraft a standalone project or part of something bigger?It's one of the 'Crafting Apps' from the ArtCraft team — a family of free, open-source Rust creative tools that also includes PhotoCraft, VectorCraft, FilmCraft and others, each usable on its own.
What audio and video formats can it import?Audio: WAV/BWF/RF64, AIFF/AIFC, FLAC, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, ALAC and CAF; video: it decodes H.264, ProRes and Motion JPEG in pure Rust for a picture track synced to the playhead.
SoundCraft is an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Avid Pro Tools built entirely in pure Rust — a full digital audio workstation for recording, editing and mixing audio.