Nota

Nota — a free DAW for macOS, Windows and Linux. No subscription, no account — just open it and make music.

Features

• Three views — Arrangement timeline, Session clip grid, and a Modular signal-graph editor with CV modulation (LFO / envelope follower / MIDI→CV / ADSR / Macro / Math, patched onto any parameter).
• Tracks & mixer — audio, MIDI, group (nestable), return and master tracks; sends; MIDI routing between tracks; peak/RMS and true-peak meters.
• MIDI — piano roll with quantize and velocity; play from a MIDI keyboard, the computer keyboard, a gamepad (macOS) or your phone; drag in .mid files; turn audio into MIDI (melody / harmony / drums / slice).
• Audio — record from inputs and internal buses; import WAV/AIFF/FLAC/MP3; fades, gain and per-clip envelopes; warp / time-stretch.
• Automation & MIDI Learn — draw or record automation on any parameter; map hardware knobs to almost anything.
• Browser — preview presets, drum kits, effects and samples before you load them.
• Version history — every save is kept; go back to any earlier version of a song, or branch off from it.
• Export — the master or stems to WAV (16/24-bit or 32-bit float), with true-peak normalize and dither.
• AI control (optional) — a local MCP server lets an AI assistant such as Claude work in the open project. Off by default.