OpenDAW gives music makers a free DAW in the browser without accounts, ads, tracking, paywalls, or email sign-up. André Michelle built the open-source project with TypeScript and the Web Audio API, covering audio and MIDI recording, arranging, mixing, instruments, effects, custom JavaScript processing, and local builds through GitHub.
Projects stay inside browser storage unless exported as .odb bundles containing their samples and soundfonts. Third-party plug-ins are not supported, though Werkstatt and Spielwerk let coders build custom DSP. Chrome and Firefox support MIDI hardware, while Safari does not. After its first online launch, OpenDAW can run from cached code.
Built-in gear covers synths, sampling, drums, pitch correction, compression, reverb, delay, EQ, limiting, vocoding, amp modeling, and MIDI tools. More than 200 ModeAudio loops and one-shots come ready to use. Recording, piano-roll editing, mixing, stem export, demo projects, and Piano Tutorial Mode round out the current workflow.
Projects stay inside browser storage unless exported as .odb bundles containing their samples and soundfonts. Third-party plug-ins are not supported, though Werkstatt and Spielwerk let coders build custom DSP. Chrome and Firefox support MIDI hardware, while Safari does not. After its first online launch, OpenDAW can run from cached code.
Built-in gear covers synths, sampling, drums, pitch correction, compression, reverb, delay, EQ, limiting, vocoding, amp modeling, and MIDI tools. More than 200 ModeAudio loops and one-shots come ready to use. Recording, piano-roll editing, mixing, stem export, demo projects, and Piano Tutorial Mode round out the current workflow.
