Tsunami

Spec sheet

Product

Tsunami is an open-source Digital Audio Workstation designed for ease of use.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Free plan

YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · github.com

License

The repository identifies its license as GPL-3.0.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Maker

The project README says it was mostly written by Michael Ankele.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Audio and MIDI

The listed features include audio effects, MIDI editing, synthesizers, samples, signal chains, and persistent sessions.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Audio tools

Listed features include audio effects, synthesizers, samples, and signal chains.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

CPU support

The plugin system supports x86_64 and aarch64 CPUs.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Dependencies

The Linux build guide lists GTK 4, zlib, and FFTW3 as required libraries, with audio libraries including PulseAudio and ALSA recommended.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Intended use

The maker says it was mainly developed for personal home recording needs.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Linux

The project was initially written for Linux and provides Linux build instructions.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Linux support

Tsunami was initially written for Linux, and the maker provides Linux build instructions for dependencies including GTK4, zlib, and fftw3.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

macOS

macOS support is described as experimental; the build guide says installing is unsupported and explains how to build an app bundle.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

macOS support

macOS support is described as experimental, and the guide says installation is unsupported while an app bundle can be built.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

MIDI and sessions

Tsunami supports MIDI editing and persistent sessions.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

MIDI sequencing

YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · github.com

Multitrack editing

YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · github.com

Plugin architecture

Plugins can define classes such as audio effects that can be used inside Tsunami.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Plugins

Tsunami has a plugin system using its own language and just-in-time compiler for plugin code.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Processor support

The plugin system supports x86_64 and aarch64 CPUs.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Recording and mixing

Features include multi-track mixing and multi-version audio recording.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Support and documentation

The repository links to build and run, usage, plugin-writing, internal-design, and development-plan documentation; its usage guide currently says “TODO.”Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Supported platforms

Linux, Windows, macOSRead 20 Sep 2026 · github.com

Use case

The maker says it was mainly developed for personal home-recording needs.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Windows

Windows support is described as experimental and documented for Visual Studio 2022.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Windows support

Windows support is described as experimental and the build guide uses Visual Studio 2022.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com

Where Specifiction places it

• Audio Editing Software#114 of 1317.2