Lemon-Studio
by ItsAlphaNeon
Lemon Studio is a free music production program written in Rust. It lets you build patterns, arrange songs, mix them and host plugins, and it can open and save FL Studio project files, but it is still pre-alpha.
New and promisingUnder two months old. Expect rough edges and fast changes.
- Stars
- 573 +26 a day, est.
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- Runs on
- Your computer
- Setup
- Technical
- Language
- Rust
- Age
- 21 days
What you can do with it
- Build beats and melodies with a step sequencer and piano roll
- Arrange patterns into songs and mix them with routable mixer tracks and effects
- Load CLAP, VST3 and VST2 plugins and export audio to WAV, FLAC, MP3 or OGG
Could replace
- FL Studio
Our suggestion based on what it does, not a feature-by-feature comparison.
Ways a business could use it
- Produce music or jingles for videos and adverts without paying for a commercial audio workstation licence, once the software matures
- Convert and inspect FL Studio projects from clients on a machine without FL Studio, on copies of the originals
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use. Anything you distribute that includes it must be open-sourced under the same licence.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
No prebuilt binaries exist yet, so it has to be built from source with the Rust toolchain.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- Pre-alpha: the README says it is not yet a usable DAW
- No prebuilt binaries; must be built from source
- FL Studio project support is very early, so original files could be damaged if overwritten
- Many controls are not implemented yet
- GPL-3.0 licence may limit how you reuse the code in closed products
Who's talking about it
- raiscui (gh-trends): GitHub trends — 2026-10-27 Featured in a roundup
Checked 01 Nov 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
