auru
Alpha · 0.3 · April 2026

Make music
together.

Auru is a collaborative DAW — real-time co-editing, LAN discovery, session sharing — that also runs on virtually any machine you own. Open source and in alpha right now.

Linux · macOS · Windows  ·  x86_64 · ARM64 · RISC-V
Linux
Debian · Fedora · Arch
macOS
14 Sonoma +
Windows
10 and 11
x86_64
Stable
ARM64
Stable
RISC-V
Experimental
[ SCREENSHOT PLACEHOLDER ]Main session · two collaborators · April 20261600 × 900
01What's inside

A small set of rooms, well kept.

Sessions

Sessions that feel like a room.

A timeline that breathes. Tracks, takes, and ideas laid out the way you remember them — not buried in a tree of menus.

Plugins

Plugins, hosted hospitably.

Run CLAP, VST3, and LV2 side by side. Sandboxed, scanned quickly, and remembered between projects.

Latency

Latency that gets out of the way.

Tuned for low-buffer recording on everyday hardware. The meter in the corner is there, just rarely interesting.

Files

Yours, on disk.

Projects are plain files. Version them, share them, open them in ten years. No mystery database.

02Collaboration

The studio has no walls.

Real-time co-editing, automatic LAN discovery, session sharing over the internet — Auru brings your crew in without ceremony. On the same network? One click. On the other side of the world? One link.

Live

Real-time co-editing.

Two hands on the same session. Edits land live, cursors and selections shown — no merge step, no waiting your turn.

Local

LAN discovery.

On the same network, collaborators show up automatically. One click to let them in — no IP addresses, no setup.

Remote

Share a session link.

Working remote? Send one link. They join the same session over the internet, in sync, from anywhere.

Peer-to-peer

No server to run.

Sessions connect peer-to-peer. There's nothing to self-host, nothing to pay for, nothing to keep alive between takes.

How it connects
LAN + internet, side by side.

Auto-discover collaborators on your local network. Or share a session link for remote sessions. No extra server to self-host.

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03Plugin formats

Bring every plugin in the cupboard.

Three formats hosted today, more on the way. Each plugin runs sandboxed — a misbehaving one can't take your session.

CLAP
First-class
Polyphonic modulation, threading hints, the lot.
VST3
Supported
Sandboxed per-plugin, state saved with your project.
LV2
Supported
Turtle manifests honoured, presets imported.
AU / AAX / more
On the roadmap
More formats landing in future releases.
04A look around

Screens from the current build.

[ SCREENSHOT PLACEHOLDER ]OctaSine FM synth, hosted1400 × 900
FIG. 02 — OctaSine FM synth, hosted
[ SCREENSHOT PLACEHOLDER ]Mixer & bus routing900 × 600
FIG. 03 — Mixer & bus routing
[ SCREENSHOT PLACEHOLDER ]Piano roll, swing quantise900 × 600
FIG. 04 — Piano roll, swing quantise
Community gallery
See what the alpha testers are making.
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Get the alpha

Pull up a chair. Kettle's on.

We're sending the alpha out in small batches while we tune the rough bits. Leave your email and we'll send a link when it's your turn.

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05Roadmap

Where we're headed.

0.3 · April 2026
Current alpha

Hospitality update

Plugin sandbox, project auto-save, MIDI 2.0 framing.

0.4 · July 2026
Next

Warm takes

Comp lanes, playlist takes, per-clip gain envelopes.

0.5 · Spring
Planned

The mixer rebuild

Grouped routing, side-chain graph, VCA faders.

1.0 · When it's ready
Someday

Beta → release

Stability pass, docs, a proper welcome mat.

06Open source

Built in the open, warts and all.

Auru is GPL-3 licensed. The repo, the issue tracker, and the roadmap all live in public. If it's rough, it's rough where you can see it — and where you can help.