Lynx: A lightweight DAW open source with the FL Studio workflow

A tiny taste of the Channel Rack, running in your browser. The real thing has unlimited channels, swing, patterns and much more.

124BPM

Tempo Swing RandomizeClear

// see & hear

Made in LYNX, rendered by LYNX.

The demo song ships with the app (LYNX.exe --showcase). Every sound you hear is LYNX's own synths, drums and effects.

demo.lynx

“Demo” — the showcase song

124 BPM · kick, clap, reese bass, pad, pluck and supersaw. Click the waveform to seek.

0:00 / 0:46

// screenshots

Dark, clean, focused.

The whole workspace

Built-in 3-oscillator synth

Channel Rack

7-band parametric EQ

Piano Roll

Automation clips

Mixer with sends and sidechain

Playlist

// built-in plugins

Native plugins, rebuilt from scratch.

Each engine is written natively in LYNX, inspired by an FL Studio plugin and checked against the original running unmodified. Exact means bit-identical output.

The plugins FL Studio users reach for most, all at Exact or Near-exact quality, plus LYNX's own reverbs fitted to measurements of producers' favourites.

Status, test coverage and what is still missing for each one: docs/PLUGINS.md.

FL Studio and its plugin names are trademarks of Image-Line Software, used here only to describe compatibility. LYNX is not affiliated with Image-Line. No Image-Line code or audio data ships with LYNX; built-in waves are read from your own FL Studio installation.

C++20 and JUCE 8. Every feature comes with tests, and every FL Studio behaviour we reproduce is documented. Star the repo, open an issue, send a pull request.

Star on GitHub Roadmap

// download

Start making music.

For Windows, macOS and Linux. No account, no subscription.

LYNX is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Image-Line. FL Studio is a trademark of Image-Line Software.

Free code signing provided by SignPath.io, certificate by SignPath Foundation.

Release files are built from the public source by GitHub Actions, and every signing request is approved by hand.

Authors, reviewers and approvers: Ka1-S (repository owner).

This program will not transfer any information to other networked systems unless specifically requested by the user or the person installing or operating it. Privacy policy

Opt-in only. After a crash or freeze LYNX asks before sending a report (Settings › General › Crash reports: Ask / Always send / Never). A report holds the LYNX version, operating system, CPU, graphics card and driver, audio device, the crash or freeze file and the last steps; user names in paths become <user> and file names are dropped. No audio, no projects, no machine name, no IP address is stored. Reports are kept only to fix bugs. To have one deleted, open an issue with its id (LYNX shows it after sending; every sent id is also listed in crash-reports/sent.log in LYNX's settings folder).