Everything you need to make a song — instruments, drums, effects, recording and mixing — in one app. Free. No account, no subscription.
No account, no trial timer, nothing to unlock — here's what actually makes it worth the download.
Not a trial, not a stripped-down edition. No account, no subscription, no locked features, no ads. Download it and it's yours.
Most music software assumes you already know music software. SANDYNE is built so a first-timer can finish a song on day one — and so it keeps up once you know what you're doing.
A calm, considered interface where everything on screen earns its place. Nothing buried in menus, nothing shouting for attention.
Thirteen instruments and thirty-four effects, plus recording, mixing, stem separation and export. Nothing to buy before you can finish a track.
Opens in seconds, stays responsive while you work, and leaves your CPU headroom for the music. Native code, no web wrapper.
Made by one person who reads every bug report. New features land every few weeks — see what just shipped.
A short look at the app working — building a beat, adding sounds, and putting a song together. No talking, just the app.
Notes, audio recordings, and drum patterns all live on the same timeline. Double-click any clip to open the right editor for it.
Draw notes on a piano-style grid, choose how loud each one is, and let the editor highlight the right scale. Type with your computer keyboard if you don't have a piano controller.
Browse and preview audio files, drag them onto the timeline, then trim, fade, or loop. You can even split a recording into separate parts — like pulling vocals out of a song — onto their own tracks.
Tap out drum patterns on a grid. Choose how loud each hit is and where it sits in the speakers. Combine beats with melodies, recordings, and the rest of your song.
Point SANDYNE at any audio file — a finished song, a voice memo, a loop you found — and pull it apart into pieces you can actually edit. It all runs on your own machine, with nothing to buy and nothing uploaded anywhere.
Drop in a mixed track and tick what you want out of it — vocals, drums, bass, instruments — and each one lands as its own WAV. Remix it, sample it, or mute the vocal and practise over the top.
Hum a melody, play a chord progression, or tap out a beat. Tell SANDYNE what it's listening to — a full mix, vocals and leads, bass, percussion or a drum kit — pick which instrument should play the result, and convert. You get an editable part you can fix, requantise, or rewrite from scratch.
Every note in a take is detected and laid over the waveform, with the sung pitch traced inside it — so you can see the flat note, the scoop into it, and the wobble at the end before you touch anything. Select the notes you want and leave the rest alone.
Take the Natural, Tight or Hard preset, or set strength, drift, vibrato and retune time by hand. Pick a key and scale and it corrects to that — or skip correcting altogether and turn the performance into a MIDI track instead.
Every track has a rack — a left-to-right chain you fill with MIDI effects, an instrument, and audio effects. Drag modules around to change the order. The signal flows through whatever you put there.
Open the browser, drag one onto a track, play. You get real recordings of a piano, drums and orchestra, plus a set of synths for original sounds — so you have something to play from minute one.
Terrain
Piano
Syna
Drums
Ambient
Orchestra
Robot
Sampler
Water
Analog Drums
Sub
Vocoder
Hooverdrive
→ Piano, Drums and Orchestra include extra sound files in the full download.
Built-in effects for making your tracks louder, warmer, more spacious, more distorted, or just easier to see. Use them on any track, or on the whole mix.
Gate
Microshift
Overdrive
EQ Curve 3
Filter
Compressor
Reverb
Delay
Pan 2D
J-Chorus
Limiter
Pan 3D
Bitcrusher
Tape
Phaser
Visualizer
Maximizer
Aero Reverb
EQ Curve N
Tuner
Tube
Cabinet IR
Exciter
Viber
Scratch
Humanizer
Arpeggiator
MIDI Monitor
Pitch
Random
MIDI Router
Vinyl
EchoSoon
MultibandSoon
GainSoon
RecorderSoon
Velocity
Scale & Chord
SANDYNE includes a built-in web interface. Open the page in any browser — phone, tablet, another laptop — and you can watch what's happening, record notes and audio, and tweak the mix without sitting in front of the main computer.
See what's playing, scroll the timeline, switch between tracks, mixer, and visualizer views — all in a browser tab.
Record notes and audio from your phone or tablet. Useful for capturing ideas while you're holding an instrument.
Mute, solo, volume and pan all work remotely. Set a balance from across the room without leaving where you're listening.
→ The web interface is limited compared to the desktop app — it's for monitoring and capture, not deep editing.
SANDYNE has the classic vertical-fader mixer most music software uses, and a 2D Visual Mixer where every track becomes a marker on a stage. Use either, or both — they edit the same mix.
A mix sounds more alive when things move over time. SANDYNE gives you two ways to do that: recording a move once and replaying it, or letting a knob wobble on its own. Every knob shows both at a glance.
Press REC, touch any control, and perform the move. From now on, the same change happens automatically every time you play the song — in Touch, Latch or Write mode, with curves if you want to shape it by hand afterwards. Works on any knob — built-in or in your own plug-ins.
Set a knob where you want it, then attach a slow sweep, a beat-following pulse, or your own pattern. The value you set stays put while the sound moves around it. Great for filter sweeps, wobbles, and anything that needs to feel less robotic.
The inner ring shows the value you set — what gets saved with your song. The outer ring shows the value you actually hear, including any movement. You can see both at a glance.
Plug-ins are extra instruments and effects you can install into music apps. If you already have some in the VST3 or CLAP format — or LV2 on Linux — drop them in and they work just like the built-in ones. AU support is coming soon on Mac. Save your song and everything comes back exactly as you left it.
Save the whole song, just a section, or each track on its own (handy for sharing with someone who'll mix or master it). Pros can also drive everything from a terminal.
You don't have to start from an empty timeline, and you don't have to commit. SANDYNE reads projects from other programs, and everything you make in it comes back out in formats they understand.
.rpp files, tracks and all.SANDYNE is free. Bring your plug-ins, your samples, your controller — or just start with what's built in.
.tar.gz built on Ubuntu 22.04; needs glibc 2.35 or newer · 576 MBNothing is locked in: your songs export to standard WAV, FLAC, MP3, MIDI and separate stems, so anything you make here opens in any other program — today or years from now.