The world's first Music Video Workstation.
Write the music. Cut the video. One project. DonutStudio combines a music-production DAW and nonlinear video editor on the same beat grid.
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Notes as relationships
- Every note's frequency comes from its link chain
- Pure ratios from the harmonic series, at any interval and any harmonic
- Move a master note and every note linked to it retunes with it
- Link two notes and their tuning is set automatically, with no cents to juggle by hand
- Import Scala scales, retune the whole session live as an MTS-ESP master, and let Root Path Tune keep a progression in tune for you
- Microtuning survives export. Per-note pitch-bend MIDI and DAWproject carry your exact frequencies into any DAW
- Samples and vocals join the same harmonic graph. WORLD resynthesis, DiffSinger, and UTAU all retune to your ratios (Pro)
- A full DAW: clip arranger, audio and MIDI clips, mixing, and the video editor. Pro adds samples, vocals, and the score-reactive Media Machine
- 3 platforms: Windows, macOS & Linux
- 480+ Airwindows effects included free
- 1,300+ instruments in the in-app browser
Come build it with us
One developer writes DonutStudio. The Discord is where you can ask questions, share what you make, and argue for what should be built next.
Join the DiscordBuilt for the whole piece
DonutStudio began as a way to draw tuning relationships between notes. Now it is a standalone DAW and a VST3 or CLAP plugin. MIDI and DAWproject exports keep the tuning.
16-track instrument host
Sixteen tracks, each with its own instrument and its own tuning through the harmonic graph: soundfonts/SFZ, a six-operator DX7-engine FM synth (OP-7), an analog-modeled VA synth (Sybil-16), and hosted VST3/CLAP plugins.
Modular node graph
A Bitwig-Grid-style patch editor: build instruments and effects from control, audio, and modulation nodes with any-to-any routing, and drop external plugins in as crash-isolated nodes.
Vocal synthesis
Sing a part in any tuning. DiffSinger neural singing, UTAU voicebanks, and WORLD resynthesis (beta) all follow your harmonic graph. (Pro)
HEJI score notation (beta)
A grand-staff view that auto-derives Helmholtz-Ellis just-intonation accidentals straight from your link ratios.
Media Machine: score-reactive visuals (Pro)
Beat-warped footage on the grid. Pro adds the score-reactive Media Machine: GLSL/ISF shader clips and a modulation matrix that routes RMS, onsets, notes, and JI link ratios into the visuals, plus GPU particles, raymarch, and per-frame scripting.
In-app store
Install soundfont, shader, and footage packs without leaving the app. New libraries appear as the catalog grows.
Watch a link form
Link, tune, hear
Shift-click to create a link. Double-click to cycle harmonics. Move a master and every slave follows, because the frequency is the relationship.
See the MIDI editorCompose with harmonic relationships
Download the full composition DAW for free. Join the Pro beta to test sampling, vocals, and score-reactive visuals.
Free · Windows, macOS & Linux