From first take
to finished song.
Recording, mixing, and mastering
in a focused desktop portastudio.
Made for bands and songwriters. At home with electronic music, too.
A portastudio for the desktop.
Linux · macOS · Windows
Keep every take.
Build your best performance.
Coming in Dusk Studio 0.15.0
Record another pass. Choose the strongest sections from each take, and hear your comp edits while the song plays. Your performances stay intact, ready for another listen.
Explore takes and comping
Free instruments and effects
Six vintage synth circuits.
One expressive instrument.
Analog character, expressive instruments, and tools for shaping a mix. Discover the current generation of Dusk Audio plugins, built with the Dusk Audio Framework.
Explore current pluginsBug fixes continue. New development focuses on the current generation.
Find your sound.
Always free. No trials, accounts, or feature locks.
Equalizer · Free plugin
4K EQ 2
Classic console tone, with independently calibrated Brown and Black voicings.
Dusk Studio
Your whole studio.
One focused workflow.
Inspired by the hands-on simplicity of a hardware portastudio. A familiar console, a purposeful signal chain, and the tools to carry a song all the way through.
Record
Capture audio and MIDI across 24 tracks.
Refine
With 0.15, keep your takes and comp the best sections.
Mix
Shape your sound with EQ, compression, and sends.
Master
Finish with mastering EQ, multiband compression, and limiting.
Why Dusk
Built to help you
finish music.
When a much-loved Tascam DP-24 stopped working, the search for that same focused experience became Dusk Studio. The constraints are intentional: fewer decisions between an idea and a finished song.
The story behind Dusk AudioStart making music.
Dusk Studio is in beta. Official builds are available through Patreon from $1/month, or you can build from the open-source code for free.
Get Dusk Studio betaThe plugins are always free. A purchase option for Dusk Studio is planned for 1.0; pricing and release timing are still to come.