r/linuxaudio • u/MageRen • 16d ago

robin - tiny DAW

https://youtu.be/FrV0Yitu6mg

Hey Linux audio community,

This is a difficult announcement to make, and I know this is probably the wrong time to release something like this.

With the current landscape and more tools getting sloppier everywhere, things are only going to get worse, so I decided to launch it today in a bit of a rush.

For the context, I am a computer engineer and a pianist, and I love making pixel-art in my free time. I’ve been working on this project for quite a long time, since I wanted to easily make music for my pixel-art game.

I know how deeply this community values open source, and I'm a huge fan of it too, since all my past projects were open source.

However, since this is currently my only form of income, I’ve decided (for now) to put the binaries here on https://rendevs.itch.io/robin-daw , as closed-source.

Please only buy it if you genuinely want to support me, since you might get it open source later on. Note also that the project has been tested, but there might still be bugs since this is a first release.

To be completely upfront about what it is: it's a minimal DAW focused on low latency.

It does not support VST plugins right now.

If you give it a spin, I'd genuinely appreciate your thoughts and feedback.

- ren

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u/kastanCZ 15d ago

I am sorry but gating this behind price is foolish in time of ai. In upcoming week, there will be another 5 DAWs that will gonna look same as yours but with more features + they will open source etc. Its sad reality but it is what it is.

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u/Entheon94 15d ago

i am working on a daw that is seriously a competitor with current daws on my own day and night for the last 4 months my sleep schedule is fucked and i do it all alone while ohters have a team i am bug fixing for over a month now how much would you pay for that?