GitHub - Ka1-S/LYNX-SHARE: LYNX SHARE — lightweight open-source DAW in C++20/JUCE with the FL Studio workflow: Channel Rack, Piano Roll, Playlist, Mixer and .flp import

A lightweight DAW with the FL Studio workflow.

Channel Rack, Piano Roll, Playlist and Mixer in C++20 + JUCE 8, built to run well on any PC.

Windows, macOS and Linux.

Formerly “LYNX”: renamed LYNX SHARE in v0.1.20 (it was easy to confuse with the Lynx text web browser). Old links to github.com/Ka1-S/LYNX redirect here; your settings and projects stay where they are.

Inspired by the classics LYNX SHARE ships native plugins inspired by the third-party plugins producers use most, next to its clean-room FL Studio natives. 24 dedicated LYNX SHARE engines are in, more are being built, and a project that uses one of the 56 originals below opens with the LYNX SHARE equivalent when the original is not installed (its settings are kept and come back once it is; see PLUGIN_FALLBACK.md). Vendor Inspired by → LYNX SHARE plugin FabFilter Pro-L 2 → Apex Limiter · Pro-C 2 / 3 → Crest Compressor · Pro-MB → Prism Multiband · Pro-G → Sentry Gate · Pro-Q 2 / 3 / 4 → Facet EQ · Pro-DS → Hush De-esser · Saturn → Ember Saturator · Pro-R 2 → LuxeVerb (stand-in) · Timeless 3 → Fruity Delay 3 (stand-in) Valhalla DSP VintageVerb → Epoch Verb · Room → Atrium · Plate → Foil Plate · Supermassive → Nebula · Shimmer → Halo · FutureVerb → Horizon · Delay → Echoform · FreqEcho → Spiral Echo · SpaceModulator → Orbit · UberMod → Lattice Mod Antares Auto-Tune → LYNX Tune Waves H-Delay → Echoform · CLA-2A → Glow Leveler · CLA-76 → Crest Compressor · SSL E-Channel → Ridge Strip · S1 Imager → Stereo Shaper · DeEsser → Hush De-esser · NS1 → Quell Denoiser · Doubler → Gemini Doubler · Tune Real-Time → LYNX Tune · RVerb, H-Reverb, TrueVerb → Reeverb 2 (stand-in) · SuperTap → Fruity Delay 3 (stand-in) · L1, L2, L3, L4 → Limiter (stand-in) · Renaissance Compressor → Compressor (stand-in) · CLA-76, CLA-3A, C1, SSLComp, API-2500 → Compressor (stand-in) · Q10, Renaissance EQ, SSL EQ → Parametric EQ (stand-in) Solid State Logic Native Channel Strip, 4K E → Ridge Strip Soundtoys Little Plate → Foil Plate · EchoBoy → Echoform · PrimalTap → Echoform · Decapitator → Ember Saturator · Little AlterBoy → LYNX Tune · PanMan → Auto-pan (stand-in) Slate Digital Fresh Air → Aether Harrison De-Esser → Hush De-esser Complete Access (role) channel strips (SSL 4K G, Harrison 32C / MPC, Slate VCC / Virtual Mix Rack) → Ridge Strip · bus / smart compressors (SSL Bus Compressor 2, G3, VBC, sonible smart:comp, pure:comp) → Crest Compressor · optical levelers (Slate FG-2A, SD-3A, Custom Opto) → Glow Leveler · limiters (Slate FG-X 2, SSL X-Limit, sonible smart:limit, pure:limit) → Apex Limiter · EQs (Slate Infinity EQ, FG-73 / FG-N / FG-S / SD-PE1 / CS-EQ, Eiosis AirEQ, SSL X-EQ 2, sonible smart:EQ) → Facet EQ · de-essers (SSL DeEss, Slate FG-DS 902, Eiosis E2Deesser, sonible smart:deess) → Hush De-esser · gates (SSL X-Gate, Slate Gate Classic / Drums, Harrison Spectral Gate) → Sentry Gate · reverbs (LiquidSonics Lustrous Plates / Seventh Heaven / Cinematic Rooms, Slate VerbSuite Classics, SSL FlexVerb / PlateVerb / SpringVerb, sonible smart:reverb) → Foil Plate · delays (SSL X-Echo / X-Delay, Slate Stellar Echo SD-201, Harrison 3D Delay) → Echoform · saturators (Slate Heatwave / Revival, SSL Fusion Vintage Drive / X-Saturator, Harrison Tape Saturator) → Ember Saturator · pitch correction (Slate MetaTune) → LYNX Tune · vintage compressor models (Slate FG-116 / FG-76 / FG-401 / FG-A / FG-Dynamics, SSL X-ValveComp) → Compressor (stand-in) Image-Line FL Studio 69 natives at Exact / Near-exact quality: 3x Osc, FL Keys, Gross Beat, Fruity Limiter, Parametric EQ, Soundgoodizer, Maximus, Fruity Delay 3, Reeverb 2, Fruity Compressor, Epoch Verb, Nebula, Atrium, Foil Plate, Echoform, Crest Compressor, Prism Multiband, Sentry Gate … (all of them) Product and company names are trademarks of their respective owners. They are used only to describe compatibility and the role each LYNX SHARE engine plays. LYNX SHARE is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by any of them and contains none of their code, presets, graphics or audio.

Highlights ⚡ Lightweight Lock-free engine, channels and mixer spread across threads, idle channels skipped and long audio streamed from disk. A 125-track project renders at more than 10× real time.

Measured against FL Studio 2026 on the same PC: 2.5–7× less RAM, demo songs open faster and render 2–3× faster (benchmark).

📂 Opens .flp Imports FL Studio projects: channels, samples, patterns, arrangement, automation, mixer and 60+ native plugins converted, most of them bit-exact.

🔬 Clean-room FL Studio's behaviour was studied through behavioural reverse engineering and documented; not a single line of Image-Line code was copied.

Mixer Up to 127 inserts, sends with levels, 10 effect slots with dry/wet per track, built-in EQ (or a clean mixer with none), PDC, smart disable and sidechain (here the bass compressor listening to the kick).

Choose how many inserts new projects start with and show only the used ones.

7-band parametric EQ Draggable handles, shelves, 12–48 dB/oct cuts, band-pass and notch, with the response drawn in real time. Automation Any knob or fader (channel, mixer, effect, plugin parameter) becomes a clip with points and curves; MIDI controllers can be linked to any parameter. Everything in the box Instruments 3-oscillator synth with an evolving harmonics oscillator, SVF or 4-pole ladder filter and a vintage chorus Sampler with zones, slices, time-stretch (Signalsmith Stretch) and disk streaming LYNX Soundfont: SF2/SF3 player with a preset search across all your SoundFonts Built-in drums (kick, snare, hat, clap) Layer channels, FL-style VFX note effects (Sequencer/arpeggiator, Key Mapper, Keyboard Splitter…) and controllers (X-Y, X-Y-Z, Dashboard, Envelope, Voltage) VST3 and CLAP plugins on every OS, plus Audio Units on macOS and LV2 on Linux; on Windows and Linux optionally sandboxed in a separate process; a searchable plugin picker with favorites Effects EQ, 7-band parametric EQ, compressor with sidechain, limiter Delay, reverb, chorus, filter, distortion, lo-fi Effector (12 algorithms), vocoder with side inputs, pitch correction Volume gate, rhythmic envelope, auto-pan, Linkwitz-Riley crossover Wave Candy analyzer and an audio-reactive Visualizer with video export Hardware Insert for outboard gear, with round-trip ping and delay compensation Pitch shift, frequency shifter, utility, Patcher (a node graph of effects, instruments and plugins with audio, MIDI and control cables) Projects and files Native .lynx format (JSON) with autosave Imports .flp and .mid; FL .fst presets Exports WAV 16/24/32f, FLAC and OGG, song or pattern, with dither Note recording (PC keyboard and MIDI) and audio recording, sample-accurate with a round-trip ping, punch in/out with pre/post-roll, loop takes and comping, crash-safe takes Themes (accent color, background, workspace image) and plugin presets Undo/redo on every edit Opt-in crash and freeze reports (anonymous), or a prefilled GitHub bug report Audio drivers: Windows Audio (WASAPI), DirectSound and ASIO on Windows; Core Audio on macOS; PipeWire (native), JACK and ALSA on Linux Any insert to any hardware output, including single mono channels Built-in plugins LYNX SHARE's native engines are clean-room re-implementations of FL Studio's native plugins, each checked against the original running unmodified. The full list — every engine, what it is compatible with, its status and what is still missing — is in docs/PLUGINS.md.