DAW (Pro)
DAW (Pro) is a app in the osFoundry community catalog. Professional-grade digital audio workstation — unlimited tracks, MIDI, mixing, VST/LV2/LADSPA plugin hosting, surround, video timeline, automation. Powered by Ardour. Desktop app; runs in a streamed sandbox (KasmVNC) here, or natively on the osFoundry desktop client (recommended — latency-critical work needs native).
Details
- Workspace: osfoundry
- Category: PRODUCTIVITY
- Pricing: Free
- Access: Community
Features
- Professional-grade digital audio workstation — unlimited tracks
- VST/LV2/LADSPA plugin hosting
- Surround
- Video timeline
- Automation
Documentation
# DAW (Pro)
Professional digital audio workstation, powered by Ardour.
## ⚠️ Latency-critical — native preferred
Real-time recording + monitoring through a KasmVNC stream introduces too much latency for serious tracking work. **Use the native osFoundry desktop client for recording sessions**. Streamed mode is workable for mixing already-recorded tracks.
## Features
- Unlimited tracks (CPU/RAM-limited)
- MIDI sequencing + scripting
- VST2 / VST3 / LV2 / LADSPA / AU plugin hosting
- Multi-channel routing + surround (5.1, 7.1, Ambisonics)
- Video timeline (sync to picture)
- Mackie / OSC / MIDI control surface support
- Lua scripting
- JACK-aware (low-latency audio routing)
## Pricing on official builds
Upstream Ardour binaries are gated behind a one-time payment on ardour.org. This room app builds from the **source** (GPL-2.0) directly — same code, free.
## Packaging
KasmVNC + apt-installed Ardour from Debian Bookworm. **100 GB volume** — DAW sessions are large.
How to use DAW (Pro) in osFoundry
Install DAW (Pro) into your workspace in one click, then fork it in osStudio to customise the prompts, tools, or configuration for your stack. Anyone in your workspace can pick up where you left off.
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