ENCORE. Basement Studio

A DAW for bands and home studios, from ENCORE.. Record, edit and mix on your own computer, with the ENCORE. plugins built in, then make a release package for ENCORE. (File > Send to ENCORE.: the mastered mix, stems, cover art and the song's details, ready to upload in the browser). Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux and Raspberry Pi (ENCORE. OS, or 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS).

Copyright (C) 2026 Encore Music, Inc. Licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3 (see LICENSE). The ENCORE. name and logo are not licensed (see TRADEMARKS.md). Third-party code: THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md. Outside contributions are not accepted (see CONTRIBUTING.md). Contact: [email protected]

Built on Tracktion Engine (GPLv3) and JUCE (AGPLv3).

Downloads

Each release (under Releases on this repo) has, with a .sha256 file next to each download:

• Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit): ENCORE-Basement-Studio-<version>-windows-setup.exe, the installer (Start menu, desktop shortcut, opens .encore songs, and it can also install ENCORE. VST for your other DAWs). Or ENCORE-Basement-Studio-<version>-windows-x64.zip to run it from any folder without installing. It isn't code-signed, so SmartScreen warns the first time: click More info, then Run anyway.
• Mac (Apple Silicon and Intel, macOS 11 or newer): ENCORE-Basement-Studio-<version>-macos.dmg. Open it and drag ENCORE Basement Studio to Applications. Double-clicking a .encore song then opens it in ENCORE. Basement Studio. The disk image also holds ENCORE. VST's Mac installer (ENCORE-VST-<version>-macos.pkg), for the same plugins in Logic, GarageBand and your other music apps; it asks for Open Anyway the same way the first time. It isn't signed or notarized, so the first time macOS says it was "Not Opened": click Done (not Move to Trash), go to System Settings > Privacy & Security, scroll to Security and click Open Anyway, then open the app again and click Open Anyway. You only do this once. If it still won't open, run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/ENCORE Basement Studio.app" in Terminal.
• Linux and Raspberry Pi: encore-basement-studio_<version>_amd64.deb and _arm64.deb, and ENCORE-Basement-Studio-<version>-x86_64.AppImage and -aarch64.AppImage. See below. For the ENCORE. plugins in your other music apps (Ardour, Reaper, Bitwig and others), get ENCORE. VST's Linux download from its releases.

Versions 0.4.3 and earlier were published from a different repository.

Install on Linux / Raspberry Pi

Runs on 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm or newer (and ENCORE. OS), Debian 12 or newer, and Ubuntu 22.04 or newer (plus Mint, Pop!_OS and others built on them). Pick the file for your machine: amd64 / x86_64 for regular PCs and laptops, arm64 / aarch64 for a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 running a 64-bit system (32-bit isn't supported).

• The .deb (Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Pop!_OS, Raspberry Pi OS): from the folder you downloaded it to:

  sudo apt install ./encore-basement-studio_<version>_arm64.deb
  

  ENCORE. Basement Studio is then in your applications menu (under Sound & Video), encore-basement-studio starts it from a terminal, and .encore songs open in it with a double-click. Remove it with sudo apt remove encore-basement-studio.

• The AppImage (almost any distribution, nothing to install): make it runnable and start it:

  chmod +x ENCORE-Basement-Studio-*.AppImage
  ./ENCORE-Basement-Studio-*.AppImage
  

  If it says FUSE is missing, install libfuse2 (libfuse2t64 on Ubuntu 24.04 and later), or run it with --appimage-extract-and-run.

Audio works through ALSA out of the box. JACK is supported too, and so is PipeWire through its JACK support. For low latency, add yourself to the audio group (sudo usermod -aG audio $USER, then log out and back in).

Help and problems

In the app, Help > Report a Problem (or "Report a problem" on the start screen) makes a zip of the log and your audio setup (no recordings) on your Desktop and opens an email to [email protected] with the version, your system and where the log is: attach the zip and send it. Or write to [email protected] directly. More at https://encoremusic.studio.

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