• Bass Studio is a DAW which supports VST2 and CLAP plugins.
• Releases are provided for Windows, MacOS and Linux for the x86_64 architecture.
• The program requires Hardware OpenGL acceleration.
• This Project is available under Open Source license since May 4th 2023
• Only 64 bit builds are supported
• All dependencies are built from source and have to be build with the same compiler version
• I have been working on this solo since 2017.

Download

• Releases: https://github.com/nidefawl/bass-studio/releases
• Latest build: https://github.com/nidefawl/bass-studio/actions

Donations

If you like the software please consider a donation

• https://www.patreon.com/nidefawl
• https://ko-fi.com/nidefawl

Screenshots

Video

CLAP Demo (Diva)

Community

Feel free to join the Discord Server which I recently created. Hit me a message if you have questions. https://discord.gg/MxsgB7Ex

Build requirements

• CMake v3.23+
• Python 3.8+
• Compiler with C++17 feature support:
  • Windows: Visual Studio 2019 or llvm-mingw 14.0.0 toolchain
  • Linux: clang minimum version 12
  • MacOS: clang - untested

Build instructions Linux

Required system dependencies on Ubuntu:

sudo apt install libx11-dev libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev libasound2-dev python3-distutils libgtk-3-dev 

The dependecies reside in a different repository: https://github.com/nidefawl/daw-deps.git

Both GCC and Clang can be used to compile.

export CC=clang
export CXX=clang++
git clone --recurse-submodules "https://github.com/nidefawl/daw-deps.git"
git clone "https://github.com/nidefawl/bass-studio.git"
mkdir build-deps
cd build-deps
python3 ../daw-deps/build.py
cd ../bass-studio
cmake -S. -Bbuild -G"Ninja Multi-Config" -DPROJECT_DEPS_PATH:PATH=../daw-deps -DPROJECT_DEPS_INSTALL_PATH=../build-deps/install
cmake --build build --config RelWithDebInfo --target bass

Build instructions Windows

It is recommended to use the latest version of LLVM-MinGW for Windows builds.

Visual Studio 2022

MSVC builds are supported as well. MSVC provides a better debug experience than LLDB/GDB on Windows.

Windows Terminal

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" amd64
mkdir bass-studio-dev
cd bass-studio-dev
git clone --recurse-submodules "https://github.com/nidefawl/daw-deps.git"
git clone "https://github.com/nidefawl/bass-studio.git"
mkdir build-deps
cd build-deps
python3 ..\daw-deps\build.py
cd ..\bass-studio
cmake -S. -Bbuild -DPROJECT_DEPS_PATH:PATH=../daw-deps -DPROJECT_DEPS_INSTALL_PATH=../build-deps/install

Now you either build on command line with cmake --build build --config RelWithDebInfo --target bass or in Visual Studio with start build\bass.sln

Additional steps:

• Copy soxr-msvc-release.dll from ../build-deps/install/soxr/bin to ./run
• If dependencies were built at some other location -PROJECT_DEPS_INSTALL_PATH=D:/somefolder/build-deps/build/install has to be provided.

MacOS

• MacOS version is experimental/broken/untested as I don't own a Mac or Hackintosh
• install brew

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

• install clang and cmake

brew install llvm
brew install cmake

• Build deps with

python3 ../daw-deps/build.py -DCMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.12

• Build daw same way as on linux

Manual Installation

• Read-Write resources are stored in "C:\Users<user>\AppData\Roaming\bass":
  • logfile, settings.json
  • plugin database (SQLite)
  • view-layout json files (F1-F10 keys)
  • theme presets (important)
• Read-only resources are stored in "./res"
  • Fonts, Icons, GLSL shader code
• Build scripts will generate the executable to "./run/"
• The program must be executed inside ./run/ to find the sibling ./res/ directory. You can also symlink it

Running tests

cd C:/dev/daw/build/
ctest --verbose 
ctest --output-on-failure # to only see tests that failed