Zrythm 2.0 Alpha Released For Rewriting The Digital Audio Workstation In C++ & Qt/QML
Zrythm 2.0 Alpha Released For Rewriting The Digital Audio Workstation In C++ & Qt/QML
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zrythm-2.0-Alpha
Publish Date: 2026-05-31 06:47:00
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Zrythm is a wonderful open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) application. Zrythm 1.0 released back in 2024 for this software catering from beginners to audio professionals. It’s been a GTK-based application for years but the developers have been porting it to Qt6/QML. Released this weekend is the first Zrythm 2.0 alpha release that moves from GTK to Qt/QML.
Along with going from GTK to Qt6/QML on the UI side, the Zrythm codebase has morphed from C to C++23. The developers also decided to drop their Meson build system support in favor of Windows.
In addition there is JUCE plug-in support, native CLAP plug-in support, ASIO support on Windows, and a variety of other improvements.
The screenshots in this article are of Zrythm 2.0 Alpha 1. For those wanting to compare against the prior GTK-based UI:
The new Qt-based interface doesn’t feel nearly as polished as the former but presumably will be further enhanced with ongoing development releases.
Those wanting to check out today’s release for this now-Qt6-based digital audio workstation software, you can download it on GitHub.
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