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Melodom is a free digital audio workstation that works the way Pro Tools users expect. Record, edit, mix and bounce on macOS.

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Version 0.8.0 for macOS 11 or later Pre-alpha Written in Rust

Melodom's Edit window with a nine-track session: drums, bass, pad, keys and lead, a reverb aux and a master fader
The Edit window with the built-in demo song. Every sound in it is synthesised by Melodom itself.

Edit

Audio and MIDI, with playlists and comping, fades, clip gain, Beat Detective, undo and an Undo History.

Mix

Inserts, sends and busses, automation written live from the faders, and automatic delay compensation.

Record

Punch in, loop record and monitor through the full channel strip. Autosave brings your work back after a crash.

Plug-ins

Original effects and instruments built in, and your own CLAP, VST3 and Audio Units with their own editors.

Go further

Video with timecode burn-in, surround up to 9.1.6 and Ambisonics, and a Score Editor for notation.

Script it

Every action is a command you can run from the command line or hand to an AI agent.

Faders, meters and coloured name strips for nine tracks in the Mix window
Mix. Inserts, sends, busses and meters, with the built-in plug-ins or your own.
The MIDI Editor window showing chords on an instrument track as a piano roll, each note labelled with its pitch and velocity, above a velocity lane
MIDI. A piano roll with velocities, quantize and recording from your controller.
The Video window showing a colour-bar test movie with a timecode burn-in, beside a Video track with thumbnails in the Edit window
Video. A picture track with thumbnails and a Video window with timecode burn-in.
The Renderer window showing a 7.1.4 speaker layout with two object tracks, beside Mix strips with surround panners and Object/Bed buttons
Surround. Formats up to 9.1.6 and Ambisonics, and a panner with divergence and height.

Tune vocals with Melodyne.

Melodom hosts ARA 2 plug-ins such as Melodyne, in VST3, Audio Unit or CLAP format. Put one on clips or on a whole track: the clips play through it, and Bounce Mix hears its edits. Its window docks at the bottom of the Edit window, as in Pro Tools, and the edits are saved with the session.

Melodyne Studio docked at the bottom of the Edit window, under the vocal track it is on, showing the vocal's notes
Melodyne on a vocal track, in its tab at the bottom of the Edit window.

And much more.

Send to FMOD Studio

Render the mix or every track straight into your FMOD Studio project, and build an event from the timeline.

Audio to MIDI

Turn a sung or played melody, or a drum part, into MIDI notes, or let an ARA plug-in such as Melodyne do it.

AAF sessions

Open AAF sessions or import them into yours, and bring in tracks from other sessions with Import Session Data.

Instruments

A subtractive synth, a drum synth, and a sampler that plays any WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3 or OGG file across the keyboard.

AudioSuite

Run the built-in processors offline, with Normalize, Reverse, Time Stretch and Varispeed, and save your own presets.

Routing and metering

Side-chain key inputs, routing folders, Pro Tools' meter types, and an I/O Setup that names your interface's channels.

Tempo and timing

Tempo and meter maps with ramps, Beat Detective, detected chords, and Elastic Audio.

Sync

Every timecode rate, MIDI Time Code to chase or generate, and MIDI Machine Control.

Bounce

The mix to WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3 or M4A, each with its peak, true peak and loudness in LUFS.

Everything you click is a command.

Drive a session from a script without opening the app, or give an AI agent a DAW through Melodom's MCP server.

Download melodom-cli

# Turn the kick down, add an EQ to the bass and bounce the mix.
melodom-cli run --demo \
  --cmd 'mix.volume={"track":"Kick","db":-6}' \
  --cmd 'mix.insert={"track":"Bass","plugin":"eq_7band"}' \
  --bounce mix.wav

# Give Claude a DAW.
claude mcp add melodom -- melodom-cli mcp --demo

Get started

Download Melodom 0.8.0 for macOS 11 or later (Apple silicon and Intel), open the DMG and drag Melodom to Applications. Windows and Linux builds will follow once they've been tested.

It isn't notarized yet, so macOS stops it the first time: try to open it once, then click Open Anyway in System Settings › Privacy & Security.

Then press Space to play, ⌘= to switch between Edit and Mix, and open Setup › Keyboard Shortcuts for the rest.

# Melodom 0.8.0 for macOS 11 or later
melodom-0.8.0-macos-universal.dmg      # the app
melodom-cli-0.8.0-macos-universal.zip  # the command line

Melodom is pre-alpha. Recording, editing, mixing and bouncing work end to end, but it can't exchange sessions with Pro Tools yet, and it isn't ready for paid work.