Future of Buzz / Lots of new DAWS

[Grids]

There has been an explosion of new free DAWS in the last few years. Some of this has to do with vibe-coding (some not).
I kinda worry about Buzz (or Rebuzz) surviving amidst this onslaught. Yes, some are kinda half-baked or AI slop but a bunch have incredible promise. I worry about Buzz being left behind or fading in the swirl of options.

For Buzz to be competitive and last, I feel that buzz (or Rebuzz) needs to be:

• Stable - not crashing etc.
  Simple - easy installation without stuffing around, one great multi-out tracker, VST3 support (personally, I no longer use any internal Buzz synths like Infector), peer machines working etc.
  Thriving community to support any issues - like this forum

Also, aware that I haven't helped much with Rebuzz testing etc.

Here are a few new free DAWs (I haven't included the truckloads of new free retro trackers, browser only DAWs or AI music creation DAWs):

Bero Tracker - https://www.berotracker.com/ -Looks like Bero Tracker has had some updates including VST3 support

Septabee - wild new experimental DAW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlNuv7AY4No

Ultradaw - https://ultradaw.com/ - Modular tracker daw

OMNI Daw - https://omnidaw.com/ - Vibecoded but looks kinda epic as a DAW

YAWN - https://github.com/tkleisas/yawn - Has some abelton aspects

Bespoke - https://www.bespokesynth.com/

Orch - https://orch-21u.pages.dev/

Magda - https://magda.land/

Nota - https://github.com/nota-daw/

Splitwave - https://splitwave.app/ - Looks interesting has modular cabling etc

Faustwave https://faustwave.io/

Infinite (Modular AV) - https://www.kvraudio.com/product/infini ... by-n1m21n/

Meadowlark - https://whoisryosuke.com/blog/2026/crea ... w-in-rust/

Nearoo Music Tool - https://github.com/Nearoo/music-tool

Ongenet - https://onge.net/ DAW with clip launcher etc

Pertylizer - https://github.com/pertyjons/pertylizer

JACKDAW - https://github.com/chvolow24/jackdaw

Open Studio - https://openstudio.org.in/

Open Modular - https://openmelodies.ca/modular

TheDaw - https://github.com/gantasmo/theDAW

Maolan - https://github.com/maolan/maolan

Furnace (VST fork) - https://github.com/agrecascino/furnacevst - Chiptune tracker with VST support

[HerrFornit]

Thanx for the DAW list!
I agree, inflation of audio software is overwhelming! Plugins are even more....

And there are even more DAW: e.g.:
https://github.com/zrythm/zrythm
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/darkst ... niac-audio

My belief is that only a few will be developed further in a few years.
At the end of the day that is for me a major reason for ReBuzz, porting Buzz into the next liefe cycle! (W11, MIDI2.0 ....).

[george]

This app too (Mac only) https://www.discodsp.com/blub/

[HerrFornit]

Hi george,

wow, nice to see a buzz tracker for Mac!

It has nice new ideas keeping the workflow. Perhaps we can borrow some ideas for ReBuzz

[ekral]

This app too (Mac only) https://www.discodsp.com/blub/

I saw it yesterday. It looks like Oskari is back. I would buy it. Is there any chance of having a PC version, or do I have to buy a Mac for it?

[george]

You could also just steal a Mac, it's much cheaper. Jokes aside, Blub has nothing relevant to what Buzz does today, and if you're not rendering WAV audio, there's nothing you need to buy. Blub is heading toward being Mac only, so if there's something from it you'd like to see in Buzz, ask Oskari, who maintains Jeskola Buzz on Windows. You could also look at Buzz descendants like ReBuzz.

[george]

It has nice new ideas keeping the workflow. Perhaps we can borrow some ideas for ReBuzz

Sure, send over any ideas and I will consider them.