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Zrythm is an interesting open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software package. It's been making use of the GTK toolkit but now the developers have decided to switch to Qt6 instead.

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[–] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Switching the UI framework sounds like a massive refactor.

Qt is by far the better framework. This could also be a chance to implement a super UI/UX, it could also be a complexity hell. I will have a look at the project, let's see if the outcome wil be a better product.

[–] greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

Qt is by far the better framework

Not on Sway, every Qt app i've used feels like it tries to put in every option and dialogs always look too busy, GTK is quite abstractive and opinionated but i'll deal with that

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 day ago

Crazy! Zrythm was "the GTK DAW" for me, and Qt6 sounds like a better option? Lets see!

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Any thoughts on how this compares to Tracktion? That's been my "linux daw" but haven't really tried any others

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

!!! I need to try this. Ardour has always been the only real option for me.

[–] TruePe4rl@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago

I can recommend trying it. Used it on my MacOS installation. Free version works great, but I felt the need for some paid features sometimes (more convenient workflow). But you can totally get job done with the free one just fine.

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

Sweet I need to build zrythm again, ah or maybe someone already put it in nixpkgs!!