Maolan DAW

A modern, open-source Rust-based DAW for recording, MIDI editing, automation, and music production.

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🎵 About Maolan

Maolan is a free, open-source Digital Audio Workstation built in Rust. It prioritizes transparency, performance, and community-driven development.

Unlike proprietary DAWs, Maolan gives you full access to inspect every line of code, build custom features, and contribute improvements. Own your tools.

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✨ Key Features

🎙 Recording & Arrangement

• Record and arrange unlimited audio and MIDI tracks with precise timing
• Latency-free monitoring with multiple input sources simultaneously
• Automatic project backups and recovery to protect your work

🎹 MIDI Editing

• Intuitive piano roll interface for composing and editing
• Advanced MIDI editing with velocity, note properties, and automation
• SysEx and controller tools for deep MIDI manipulation

🔌 Plugin Support

• Load CLAP, VST3, and LV2 plugins on any track
• Create complex routing chains with explicit audio, MIDI, and sidechain paths
• Per-track plugin graphs for parallel processing and custom signal flows

🎚 Mixing & Mastering

• Full track and plugin automation for volume, pan, mute, and plugin parameters
• Balance levels, EQ, compress, and process your mix
• Export mixdowns or stems to WAV, MP3, OGG, and FLAC with normalization

📁 Project Management

• Session templates and track templates for repeatable setups
• Autosave snapshots with recovery features
• Preferences stored in ~/.config/maolan/config.toml

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🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Rust toolchain (edition 2024)
• Platform libraries for audio/plugin integrations (e.g., jack, lilv, suil on Unix)

Build from Source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/maolan/maolan.git
cd maolan

# Build release version
cargo build --release

# Run Maolan
cargo run --release

# Run with debug output
cargo run --release -- --debug

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📚 Documentation

• Website: maolan.github.io
• GitHub Repository: github.com/maolan/maolan

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🤝 Contributing

Maolan is built by the community, for the community. There are many ways to contribute:

• 🐛 Report bugs and request features
• 💻 Submit code improvements and new features
• 📖 Improve documentation
• 🎨 Contribute to UI/UX design
• 🧪 Test and provide feedback

Visit our GitHub repository to get started!

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📝 License

Maolan is licensed under the BSD-2-Clause license.

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🔗 Links

• 🌐 Official Website
• 💻 GitHub
• 🤗 Hugging Face Organization

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Built with ❤ and 🦀 Rust.