Zrythm is a wonderful open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) application. Zrythm 1.0 released back in 2024 for this software catering from beginners to audio professionals. It's been a GTK-based application for years but the developers have been porting it to Qt6/QML. Released this weekend is the first Zrythm 2.0 alpha release that moves from GTK to Qt/QML.

Along with going from GTK to Qt6/QML on the UI side, the Zrythm codebase has morphed from C to C++23. The developers also decided to drop their Meson build system support in favor of CMake.

In addition there is JUCE plug-in support, native CLAP plug-in support, ASIO support on Windows, and a variety of other improvements.

The screenshots in this article are of Zrythm 2.0 Alpha 1. For those wanting to compare against the prior GTK-based UI:

The new Qt-based interface doesn't feel nearly as polished as the former but presumably will be further enhanced with ongoing development releases.

Those wanting to check out today's release for this now-Qt6-based digital audio workstation software, you can download it on GitHub.