Tessera

Experimental DAW with a focus on microtonal composition, expressiveness and physical modelling.

Get the latest release here.

For help, see the manual.

Build instructions

• Make sure you have installed Rust.
• Use cargo run to build and start the application in debug mode.

For an optimized build, use cargo run --release.

Windows

To use ASIO, we need the sdk. Download it from https://www.steinberg.net/asiosdk and put it in some convenient like C:\sdk\ASIOSDK. Then, set "CPAL_ASIO_DIR" in your environment variables to this path.

You also need LLVM installed. If you haven't, go to https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases/latest and get 'clang+llvm-[version]-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.tar.xz'

More detailed build instructions are on the cpal repo.

Linux

JACK is enabled by default.

Install the necessary dependencies:

Debian based

sudo apt install libasound2-dev libjack-jackd2-dev libjack-jackd2-0 libdbus-1-dev

Fedora based

sudo dnf install alsa-lib-devel jack-audio-connection-kit-devel

MacOS

No special requirements. it should Just Work.