Linux Audio Development (LAD)
Linux Audio Developers
This list shows audio vendors who already offer their software or plugins for Linux.
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| Vendor | Products | Development Model | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algonaut | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Applied Computer Music Technologies Ltd. | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | Interview |
| Apisonic Audio | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| AP Mastering | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Arboreal Audio | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Ardour | DAW | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Auburn Sounds | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | Interview |
| Audio Assault | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | Interview |
| Audio Blast | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Audio Damage | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| auDYo engineering | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| audiosingularity | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| AudioThing | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | Interview |
| Bertom Audio | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Bitwig | DAW | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| BlueLab | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Bom Shanka Machines | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Calf Studio Gear | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| C.H.A.I.R. | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Chowdhury DSP | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Cockos | DAW | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| consint | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| CRQL | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Cut Through Recordings | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Darkplace Studio | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| DDMF | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | Interview |
| decent|SAMPLES | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| direct.audio | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| discoDSP | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| DISTRHO | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Dimethoxy Audio | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Elk Audio | other | 🧩 Open Source | |
| falkTX (Filipe Coelho) | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Fors | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| FULL FX Media | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Gahel | other | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Geonkick | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| GuitarML | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| GVST | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Harrison Audio | DAW | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Higher Plane | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| HY-Plugins | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Illformed | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Inertia Sound Systems | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Inphonik | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | Interview |
| ISIVISI | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Ivy Audio | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Janus Thorborg | other | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Kazrog | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | Interview |
| Klangfreund | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | Interview |
| Korneff Audio | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Libre Wave | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Linux Studio Plugins | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | Interview |
| Loomer | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Matt Tytel | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Mensla | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Michael Willis | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| midilab | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Mixxx | other | 🧩 Open Source | |
| MOK | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Monocasual Laboratories | other | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Nakst | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| NoirSonance | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Node Audio | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| n-Track | DAW | 🔒 Closed Source | Interview |
| Pavel Smokotnin | other | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Peter Semiletov | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Punk Labs | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Presonus | DAW | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Qtractor | DAW | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Quentin Faidide | other | 🧩 Open Source | |
| rncbc | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Renoise | DAW | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| ReplicatAudio | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Room360 Audio | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| RV Audio Design | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | Interview |
| Signal Perspective | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Sinuslabs | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | Interview |
| Smao Lab | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| SocaLabs | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Sononym | other | 🔒 Closed Source | Interview |
| SuperflyDSP | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Spectre Digital | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Studiologic | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Surge Synth Team | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| TAL Software | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | Interview |
| Ternär Music Technology | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | Interview |
| The Usual Suspects | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Timothy Schoen | other | 🧩 Open Source | |
| TiagoLr | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Toneboosters | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| ToneLib | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Tracktion | DAW, plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| trummerschlunk (Klaus Scheuermann) | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| TheOnlyWaveforms | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| TheWaveWarden | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | Interview |
| u-he | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | Interview |
| unplug.red | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| VCV | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Venomode | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Wasted Audio | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| White Elephant Audio | plugins | 🔒 Closed Source | |
| Wouter Hisschemöller | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| x42 (Robin Gareus) | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | Interview |
| ZL Audio | plugins | 🧩 Open Source | |
| Zrythm | DAW | 🧩 Open Source |