Sandyne DAW – Write, record and mix your own music (Free preview)

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SANDYNE — make music on your computer. Free.

SANDYNE

Jul 2026

New · 1.5.0<br>Pitch Editor, audio-to-MIDI, tempo lanes & more<br>What&rsquo;s new &rarr;

Free preview · v1.5.0 · July 2026

Write, record<br>and mix<br>your own music.

Everything you need to make a song — instruments, drums, effects, recording and mixing — in one app. Free. No account, no subscription.

Free download

Watch the demo

Windows & Mac · Linux coming soon

SANDYNE<br>DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATION

Price<br>Free

Built-in sounds<br>12 instruments · 27+ effects

Edit<br>Notes · Audio · Drums

Export<br>WAV · MP3 · separate tracks

Plug-ins<br>Bring your own (VST3)

Works on<br>Windows & Mac<br>· Linux soon

SANDYNE<br>carrie5.sand<br>72 BPM · 4/4 · C MAJOR

Track types<br>Instrument · Audio · Drums · Group

Your plug-ins<br>VST3 instruments & effects

Editors<br>Notes · Audio · Drums

Mix<br>Groups · Ducking · Master

Save as<br>WAV · MP3 · separate tracks

For pros<br>Optional command-line tools

01 · Demo<br>See it in action.

A short look at the app working — building a beat, adding sounds,<br>and putting a song together. No talking, just the app.

● REC<br>Beats.mp4<br>PLAYBACK · LOCAL

02 · Editors

Three editors, one timeline.

Notes, audio recordings, and drum patterns all live on the same<br>timeline. Double-click any clip to open the right editor for it.

Note editor<br>Write and edit notes.

Draw notes on a piano-style grid, choose how loud each one is,<br>and let the editor highlight the right scale. Type with your<br>computer keyboard if you don't have a piano controller.

Audio editor<br>Work with recordings.

Browse and preview audio files, drag them onto the timeline, then<br>trim, fade, or loop. You can even split a recording into separate<br>parts — like pulling vocals out of a song — onto their own tracks.

Beat editor<br>Make drum patterns.

Tap out drum patterns on a grid. Choose how loud each hit is and<br>where it sits in the speakers. Combine beats with melodies,<br>recordings, and the rest of your song.

03 · Racks<br>Chain anything, in any order.

Every track has a rack — a left-to-right<br>chain you fill with MIDI effects, an instrument, and audio effects. Drag<br>modules around to change the order. The signal flows through whatever<br>you put there.

Rack · Pad<br>6 modules<br>MIDI → INSTRUMENT → AUDIO FX → MASTER

01<br>MIDI effects<br>Shape the notes before the instrument hears them — arpeggiator, humanizer, transpose, randomize.

02<br>Instrument<br>Anything from the built-in twelve, or your own VST3 instruments.

03<br>Audio effects<br>Tone, dynamics, space, color — stack as many as you like, in any order.

Master / bus<br>Where the chain ends — the master rack runs on the full mix.

04 · Built-in instruments<br>Twelve instruments. Start playing now.

Open the browser, drag one onto a track, play. You get real<br>recordings of a piano, drums and orchestra, plus a set of synths<br>for original sounds — so you have something to play from minute one.

Synth<br>Terrain

A synth that builds its sound by tracing a path across a moving<br>3D landscape. Great for evolving, otherworldly tones.

Synth<br>Syna

A classic synth for leads, pads, basses and arpeggios.

Synth · atmosphere<br>Ambient

Slowly-evolving textures that never quite repeat. Perfect for backgrounds and atmosphere.

Drum machine<br>Analog Drums

Punchy electronic drum sounds — kick, snare, tom, hi-hat,<br>cymbals — generated from scratch instead of recordings.

Synth · voice<br>Robot

A synthetic voice that sings short phrases. Great for talk-box-style hooks.

Synth · vocal<br>Vocoder

Sing or talk into it and a built-in carrier turns your voice into a<br>playable, robotic instrument. Classic vocoder hooks and synth-choir<br>pads, with formant and band controls.

Terrain

Piano

Syna

Drums

Ambient

Orchestra

Robot

Sampler

Water

Analog Drums

Sub

Vocoder

Terrain

Piano

Syna

Drums

Ambient

Orchestra

Robot

Sampler

Water

Analog Drums

Sub

Vocoder

━━━ COMPLETE INSTRUMENT LIST ━━━

01<br>Piano<br>Recordings of a real grand piano.<br>Recorded

02<br>Drums<br>Recordings of a real drum kit.<br>Recorded

03<br>Syna<br>Classic synth for leads and pads.<br>Synth

04<br>Ambient<br>Evolving background textures.<br>Synth

05<br>Water<br>Watery, rippling tones.<br>Synth

06<br>Orchestra<br>Strings, brass and woodwinds.<br>Recorded

07<br>Sampler<br>Play any audio file like an instrument.<br>Sampler

08<br>Robot<br>Synthetic voice that sings phrases.<br>Synth

09<br>Terrain<br>Synth that draws sound from a 3D landscape.<br>Synth

10<br>Analog Drums<br>Electronic drum machine.<br>Drum machine

11<br>Sub<br>Deep, focused bass synth.<br>Synth

12<br>Vocoder<br>Turns your voice into a playable instrument.<br>Synth · vocal

→ Piano, Drums and Orchestra include extra sound files in the full download.

05 · Built-in effects<br>Shape, place, color, watch.

Built-in effects for making your tracks louder, warmer, more spacious,<br>more distorted, or just easier to see. Use them on any track, or on<br>the whole mix.

Gate

Microshift

Overdrive

EQ Curve 3

Filter

Compressor

Reverb

Delay

Pan 2D

J-Chorus

Limiter

Pan 3D

Bitcrusher

Tape

Phaser

Visualizer

Maximizer

Aero Reverb

EQ Curve N

Tuner

Tube

Cabinet...

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