Category:	Music
Price:	Free
Popularity:	Low
Version String:	3.13
Release Date:	2024-05-11
Architecture:	Intel & AppleSilicon(ARM)
Minimum OS:	macOS 10.7
Vendor Name:	Peter Rudenko
Homepage:	Unknown Homepage

Description:

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Helio Workstation is free and open-source music sequencer, designed to
be used on all major platforms.


Why another sequencer?

Most of the DAW interfaces often seem overcomplicated, and they only
tend to get more and more bloated over time. Many of them are
commercial, proprietary-licensed and almost none of them support all
major operating systems at the same time.

Helio is an attempt to rethink a music sequencer to create a tool that
FEELS RIGHT.

It aims to be a modern music creation software, featuring linear-based
sequencer with a clean interface, high-performance C++ core, integrated
version control providing intelligent synchronization between devices,
saved undo history, translations to many languages and more.


Building

Linux Windows macOS
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master
develop

Basic build instructions

- Clone with submodules:
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/helio-fm/helio-workstation.git.
- Install dependencies:
- On Windows, get ASIO SDK (which can’t be redistributed in this
project due to licensing restrictions, but you may use
ThirdParty/ASIO/get_asio_sdk.ps1 powershell script to download
and extract the SDK source).
- On Linux, you’ll need to have the following packages installed:
libfreetype6-dev libx11-dev libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev libxcursor-dev libxcomposite-dev mesa-common-dev freeglut3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libasound2-dev libjack-dev libc++-dev;
the makefile assumes you’ve set up either export CONFIG=Debug,
export CONFIG=Release32 or export CONFIG=Release64 before you
make.
- Pick the right project for your OS from Projects directory and
build.

Development builds

- Windows: ci.helio.fm/helio-dev-x64.zip
- macOS: ci.helio.fm/helio-dev.dmg
- Linux: ci.helio.fm/helio-dev-x64.tar.gz


Links

- Homepage with all latest builds and its source code.
- Project page at KVR database.
- Some screencasts on Youtube.
- Discussion at HN.


Contributing

Helio is still a work in progress with many essential features missing,
and there are several ways you could help:

- Proofread and improve the translation for your native language.

- Your ideas are welcome: friendly and lightweight UI is the main
development priority in this project, and if you have a vision on
how to improve user experience in music composing, feel free to
share it.

- Implement new features: some guys were asking me if I have any tasks
for them to start working on. But, as a sole unpaid developer with
limited amount of time and interest, I’m not planning/decomposing
stories or organising the board, instead I only work on the parts
that are fun and important for me at the moment. If you feel like
contributing and don’t know where to start, my suggestion is that
you do the same: find a missing feature or behavior you’re lacking
the most, and make the app a little more convinient for yourself.
Anyway, feel free to ask questions and create incomplete PR’s to get
intermediate feedback.


Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute.

Translation and proofreading, in alphabetical order

Afrikaans - Jacques Viviers
Brazilian Portuguese - Dario Silva
Chinese - Bowen Sun
Italian - Claudio Stano
Japanese - Kotone Itaya
Korean - YoungGwang Jeon, DaYeon Lee, HyoHee Jeon
Polish - Dawid Bugajski

Sponsors

Support this project by becoming a sponsor. Your logo will show up here
with a link to your website.


License

GNU GPL v3, see LICENSE for more information.

Icons taken from various free icon fonts are licensed under SIL Open
Font License and CC-BY.

Built-in piano samples are the part of Salamander Grand Piano by
Alexander Holm, distributed under CC-BY.

All Helio logos and translations are distrubuted under CC-BY as well.