Zrythm
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Zrythm is a digital audio workstation designed to be
featureful and easy to use. It allows limitless
automation, supports LV2 plugins, works with the JACK
audio backend, provides chord assistance, is free
software and can be used in English, French,
Portuguese, Japanese and German.

It is written in C using the GTK+3 toolkit and uses
the meson build system.

More info can be found at https://www.zrythm.org

# Current state

Zrythm is currently in alpha. Most essential
DAW features are implemented and we are working
towards a stable release.

![screenshot](https://www.zrythm.org/static/images/dec_14_2019.png)

## Currently supported plugin protocols
- LV2
- VST2 (Experimental)

## Building and Installation
See [INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md).

## Using
At the moment, Zrythm works with [JACK](https://jackaudio.org) (recommended)
~~and ALSA~~. For more information on using Zrythm see the
[user manual](http://manual.zrythm.org/), which is
also available in PDF, epub and HTML-zip.

## Packaging
See [PACKAGING.md](PACKAGING.md).

## Contributing
For contributing guidelines see
[CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).
We also recommend taking a look at the
[Developer Docs](https://docs.zrythm.org)

Please submit patches and bug reports below.

## Mailing lists
user@zrythm.org, dev@zrythm.org

## Bug Tracker
<https://redmine.zrythm.org/projects/zrythm/issues>

## Releases
<https://www.zrythm.org/releases>

## License
Zrythm is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.

Zrythm is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

The full text of the license can be found in the
[COPYING](COPYING) file.

For the copyright years, Zrythm uses a range (“2008-2010”) instead of
listing individual years (“2008, 2009, 2010”) if and only if every year
in the range, inclusive, is a “copyrightable” year that would be listed
individually.

Some files, where specified, are licensed under
different licenses.

## Support
If you would like to support this project please
donate below or purchase a binary installer from
<https://www.zrythm.org/en/download.html> - creating a DAW
takes thousands of hours of work and contributions
enable us to spend more time working on the project.

- [liberapay.com/Zrythm](https://liberapay.com/Zrythm)
- [patreon.com/alex_tee](https://www.patreon.com/alex_tee)
- [paypal.me/zrythm](https://paypal.me/zrythm)

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