Show HN: Vibez – Open-Source Rust Based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)
Vibez is a new open-source Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) built in Rust that integrates a pad-based performance grid, a linear arrangement timeline, and a traditional mixer console. It emphasizes a workflow that separates live performance capture from final arrangement and mixing.
Why it matters
It represents a growing trend of high-performance, open-source creative tools built with modern systems programming languages.
One track, three workspaces, in that order. You Perform it from a pad grid, you Arrange what you played on a linear timeline, and you Mix it on a real console. Capture is the hinge between the first two: it turns a live performance into editable arrangement.
The real grid uses the same keys: 1234 / QWER / ASDF / ZXCV, rebindable in the app.
Sections are reusable multitrack loops that share your project's tracks, instruments, effects and mixer. You author one with the same editor you use in Arrange, then launch it from the pad grid. The same 16 pads do three jobs, and F1 to F3 pick which.
Arrange is the linear timeline. Multi-track audio and MIDI, clip drag, resize, split and join, time selection, looping, an overview minimap, warping with tempo follow, a piano roll, and automation across tracks, devices, plugins, buses, sends and master.
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