nota

Name: nota
Author: nota-daw

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Nota — a free DAW for macOS, Windows and Linux. No subscription, no account — just open it and make music.

145stars

10forks

Installation

# Add to your Claude Code skills
git clone https://github.com/nota-daw/nota

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Last scanned: 10/24/2026

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README.md

Frequently Asked Questions

What is nota?

nota is an open-source mcp servers skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by nota-daw. Nota — a free DAW for macOS, Windows and Linux. No subscription, no account — just open it and make music. It has 145 GitHub stars.

Is nota safe to use?

Yes. nota passed SkillsLLM's automated security scan — a dependency vulnerability audit plus prompt-injection heuristics — with no high-severity issues. You can read the full report in the Security Report section on this page.

How do I install nota?

Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/nota-daw/nota" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).

What programming language is nota written in?

nota is primarily written in C#. It is open-source under nota-daw on GitHub, so you can review or fork the full source.

Are there alternatives to nota?

Yes. SkillsLLM lists many other MCP Servers skills you can browse and compare side by side. Open the MCP Servers category from the badge at the top of this page, or use the Related Skills and comparison links further down to weigh nota against similar tools.

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Nota playing a song in the Arrangement view, with the selected track's devices open below

Why Nota

Free, for good. Open source, no paid edition, no "upgrade to unlock".
Arrange and jam. A linear Arrangement timeline and a clip-launching Session grid, with material moving freely between them — plus a Modular view for patching modulation by cable.
A full kit out of the box. ~35 built-in instruments and effects: subtractive, wavetable, FM, granular and physical-modelling synths, a drum machine, EQ, compressors, reverbs, delays, saturation, arpeggiator, chord and scale tools, racks with macros.
Your plugins too. VST3 on every platform, Audio Units on macOS. Popular free plugins (Surge XT, Dexed, Dragonfly Reverb …) install in one click from Settings.
Your phone is a controller. Scan a QR code and play pads, keys and an XY pad, or ride the mixer — over Wi-Fi or USB, nothing to install.
Easy on the eyes. A calm Studio look: neutral greys, one orange accent for what is playing or chosen. Dark or light, or the warm Ember themes, and your phone follows along.
Works where you do. The same app on macOS, Windows and Linux, on Intel/AMD and ARM.

Demo

Screenshots

Features

A quick digest — see FEATURES.md for the full, categorised list.

Three views — Arrangement timeline, Session clip grid, and a Modular signal-graph editor with CV modulation (LFO / envelope follower / MIDI→CV / ADSR / Macro / Math, patched onto any parameter).
Tracks & mixer — audio, MIDI, group (nestable), return and master tracks; sends; MIDI routing between tracks; peak/RMS and true-peak meters.
MIDI — piano roll with quantize and velocity; play from a MIDI keyboard, the computer keyboard, a gamepad (macOS) or your phone; drag in .mid files; turn audio into MIDI (melody / harmony / drums / slice).
Audio — record from inputs and internal buses; import WAV/AIFF/FLAC/MP3; fades, gain and per-clip envelopes; warp / time-stretch.
Automation & MIDI Learn — draw or record automation on any parameter; map hardware knobs to almost anything.
Browser — preview presets, drum kits, effects and samples before you load them.
Version history — every save is kept; go back to any earlier version of a song, or branch off from it.
Export — the master or stems to WAV (16/24-bit or 32-bit float), with true-peak normalize and dither.
Colour themes — Studio Dark (the default), Studio Light, Ember Graphite and Ember Paper; pick one, or follow the system's dark / light mode. Nota Remote on your phone wears the same theme.
AI control (optional) — a local MCP server lets an AI assistant such as Claude work in the open project. Off by default.

Install

Download the file for your system from the latest release:

System	File	Notes
macOS 13+, Apple Silicon (M1 and later)	`Nota-<version>-arm64.dmg`
macOS 13+, Intel	`Nota-<version>-x86_64.dmg`
Windows 10/11, most PCs	`Nota-Setup-<version>-x64.exe`
Windows 11 on ARM	`Nota-Setup-<version>-arm64.exe`
Linux, most PCs	`Nota-<version>-x86_64.AppImage`
Linux on ARM	`Nota-<version>-aarch64.AppImage`

First launch

Nota isn't signed with a paid Apple or Microsoft certificate yet, so the system asks you to confirm the first time:

macOS — see Opening Nota on macOS below.
Windows — if SmartScreen shows "Windows protected your PC", click More info → Run anyway.
Linux — make the AppImage executable (chmod +x Nota-*.AppImage, or Properties → Permissions in your file manager) and run it.

Opening Nota on macOS

Open the downloaded .dmg and drag Nota into Applications.
Open Nota from Applications. The first time, macOS stops it with "Nota" Not Opened — Apple could not verify "Nota" is free of malware… (older macOS: "Nota" can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software). Click Done — not Move to Trash.
Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and scroll down to Security. You'll see "Nota" was blocked to protect your Mac. Click Open Anyway, confirm with your password or Touch ID, then click Open Anyway once more.

That's it — from now on Nota opens like any other app.

That message is the same check with scarier wording — the download isn't actually broken. Open Terminal (Applications → Utilities) and run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Nota.app

This removes the "downloaded from the internet" mark from Nota only. Then open Nota normally.

On macOS 13–14 there's also a shortcut for step 3: in Finder, right-click (or Control-click) Nota in Applications → Open → Open.

Why the extra step? Signing an app so macOS trusts it right away needs a paid Apple developer certificate, which Nota doesn't have yet. Nota is open source and built in public by GitHub Actions from the code in this repository.

Nota checks for updates itself and shows what's new after each update.

Status

New to Nota? The user manual (English and Russian) walks through every view and device.

Nota is young and moving fast — new releases come out every week or so (see the changelog). It's already used to make real music, but expect rough edges. Found a bug or missing something? Open an issue — every report gets read. Want to help with code? Start with a [good first issue](https://github.com/nota-daw/nota/issues?q=i