Noteahead - A MIDI tracker, sequencer and music production environment written in C++/Qt/QML

Fast, keyboard-driven tracker editing with the whole song in front of you — and a complete studio behind it. Ten internal instruments, per-device insert effects and sends, a mixer, 28 rack effects and analyzers, and a sample-accurate offline renderer. Point it outwards instead and it drives a room full of MIDI hardware with the same precision.

  • Ten internal instruments in a Virtual Device Rack
  • Virtual analog, wavetable, acid bass and 11-voice drum synths
  • Two physically modelled pianos, voiced against a real electric grand
  • Two vintage string machines, after the VP-330 and the Solina
  • A 16-pad sampler, and Sub Mixers to group it all
  • Mixer view with channel strips, meters and clip LEDs
  • 28 rack effects, on the master bus and on every device insert
  • Four EQs, including 8-band parametric with Mid/Side
  • Two reverbs, single-band and multiband compression
  • Lookahead limiter, transient shaping, saturation and tube stages
  • LUFS, true-peak and RTA metering
  • Offline renderer to WAV or FLAC, master mix or per-track stems
  • Sample-accurate, drift-free internal timing
  • Keyboard-driven tracker editing in decimal values (0-127)
  • CC and pitch bend automation, arpeggiator, chords, step recording
  • MIDI hot-plug, per-track port and channel, SMF Type 1 export
  • ALSA, PulseAudio and JACK with optional transport sync
  • Saves to a custom (but open!) XML-based .nahd format
  • Will always be 100% FREE