tek is a music making program for 24-bit Unicode terminals. It’s a textmode Digital audio workstation (DAW).
It’s written in Rust with ratatui on crossterm for jack and pipewire.
This is free and open source software.
Design goals:
- Inspired by trackers and hardware sequencers, but with the critical feature that 90s samplers lack: able to resample, i.e. record while playing.
- Pop-up scratchpad for musical ideas. low resource consumption, can stay open in background. but flexible enough to allow expanding on compositions.
- Human- and machine- readable project format simple representation for project data enable scripting and remapping.
Website: Abandoned
Support:
Developer: unspeaker
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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