[1]Zrythm is a wonderful open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) application. [2]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 [3]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 CMake.

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In addition there is JUCE plug-in support, native CLAP plug-in support, ASIO support on Windows, and a variety of other improvements.

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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.

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Those wanting to check out today's release for this now-Qt6-based digital audio workstation software, you can download it on [7]GitHub .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Zrythm

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zrythm-1.0

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zrythm-Abandoning-GTK-For-Qt

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2026&image=zrythm_2alpha_4_lrg

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2026&image=zrythm_2alpha_3_lrg

[6] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2026&image=zrythm_2alpha_2_lrg

[7] https://github.com/zrythm/zrythm/releases/tag/v2.0.0-alpha.1