Free Windows DAW

Record the future.

A recording studio on your own computer. Record, arrange, mix, and play with someone else. Fully free means the songs you release too: there is no fee, no account, and the music you make is yours.

Download for Windows Source on GitHub

Latest Windows build. Unzip the folder and run Studio 4000.exe.

The studio

Welcome, arrangement, and mixer

Arrangement view of a session named Night Drive, with Beat, Lead Vocal, Keys, and Plate tracks. — **Arrangement.** Audio, instrument, bus, and FX-return tracks. Move, Time, Split, Slip, and Erase sit on the toolbar.

Mixer with Beat, Lead Vocal, Keys, Plate, and Master. Faders read 0.0 dB. — **Mixer.** Faders stay the same height. Type a dB value, or double-click a fader to put it back at 0 dB.

Clip editor showing the Beat bounce waveform, with gain, pan, fades, and pitch. — **Editor.** Open a clip and set gain, pan, fades, and pitch next to the arrangement.

Smart Mix panel with loudness, balance, duck music, and a streaming target of minus 14 LUFS.

On this computer

Smart Mix does the first pass.

Gain, balance, vocal ducking, and a loudness target, as one undo step. It stays on your machine. You can still move every fader after.

Live session panel with room code FW4N E4, host Maya, guest Leo, and a chat about the chorus.

A room code

Play it with someone else.

One person hosts, the other joins with the code. Voice and screen share are there. Having the app does not put anyone in your session.

AI assistant panel asking for your own model key. The key stays on this computer.

Off until you turn it on

Bring your own model.

The assistant stays off until you add your own key. Studio 4000 does not charge for that key, and it does not keep it.

Export window for a stereo mix or stems, WAV, 24-bit, with a streaming loudness target.

When the song is ready

Export the mix, or the stems.

A stereo file through the master, or one file per track. Pick the loudness and leave. Then take it to AKAsheet if you want it in front of people.

EffectsBuilt-in processors, a parametric EQ, Airwindows, and your own VST3 plug-ins. Drag the chain, open a few at once.

InstrumentsA piano roll and the computer keyboard. Loop recording, takes, and comping are on the audio side.

It updates itselfOnline, the app checks the public project when it opens and replaces itself when a newer build is published.

Take the latest build.

The button always downloads the newest Windows zip from the public project. Unzip it and run Studio 4000.exe.

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