Open Sound Refenation - Open-Source Windows DAW

System requirements

Minimal system: Windows 7 x64 with Platform Update

Recommender system: Windows 10 x64 November Update

Features

• Low percent load of CPU '(< 10% on Intel Core i5-3470)'
• Support multiple media formats (Media Foundation, libsndfile decoder)
• Multiple outputs support (WASAPI, MME (in development), DirectSound, XAudio2 (in development))
• SSE3 vectorization by Intel intrinsics
• Fast UI drawing (D3D11 and ImGui)
• VST and VSTi (in development) plugins support
• Discord sync

Building the project

Requires Visual Studio (2017 or later).

You can download the free Visual Studio Community Edition to build, run or develop Open Sound Refenation.

Additional information

Open Sound Refenation working only on AMD64 platforms. The x86-32 platforms are not supported. ASIO Output now is not supported.

Installation builded versions

• Portable version: Copy all files from release archive to any folder you want.
• Full version: Open OSR installator, install application to any folder you want, set 'install Microsoft Visual C++ 2017' checkbar if you have not installed Microsoft Redistributable 2017.

Thanks for

• Discord Rich Presence
• CocoaDelay
• Flutterbird
• Airwindows
• RapidJSON
• OBS-Studio
• PortAudio
• Libsndfile
• Libpng
• Libsoxr
• ImGui
• Zlib