● Alma

iOS · iPadOS · macOS

Alma DAW

A small native music workstation that sits between a mini DAW and a groovebox. Choose a sound, tap notes into a 16-step grid, play a compact keyboard, hit drum pads, and shape the mix from one clean screen.

Platforms iPhone · iPad · Mac Engine MusiKa File .alma

One screen, everything on hand

Up to 32 tracks, each one either an instrument, a sample or a drum kit. Editing is direct: tap a cell on the 16-step grid and a note appears; press again and it toggles between full gate and half gate. Everything else — transport, BPM, swing, mute, solo, per-step velocity and accent — sits one glance away.

Built for fast writing

  • Instrument tracks with factory patches and a full Custom Wave sound designer.
  • Sample tracks that turn any audio into a pitched, playable instrument.
  • Drum tracks with an 8-pad synthesized kit and a lane-based drum grid.
  • Live & record modes for the keyboard and pads.
  • Shared source — the same tree targets phone, tablet and desktop.

In the app

The main pattern screen keeps everything visible at once — tracks, steps, transport and mix. Sibling screens open a drum kit, an instrument library or the Custom Wave sound designer.

Alma DAW main pattern screen
Main screen · 16-step grid, track list and transport in one view.
Alma DAW drum kit
Drum kit · 8-pad synthesized kit with a lane-based grid.
Alma DAW instrument picker
Instruments · browse factory patches and assign to a track.
Alma DAW custom wave designer
Custom Wave · sculpt your own patch, save it to the bank.
Alma DAW mute view
Mute · silence tracks on the fly without losing state.
Alma DAW solo view
Solo · isolate a track while you tweak its patch.

Onboarding

First-run screens introduce the core ideas in a few taps. You get to a working song in under a minute.

Alma DAW intro 1
Intro · welcome and orientation.
Alma DAW intro 2
Intro · editing patterns.
Alma DAW intro 3
Intro · sounds and sharing.

Portable by default

Songs save as .alma files. They open on every other Alma app unchanged — mobile, desktop, even the ESP32-S3 pocket tracker. Samples referenced in a song are mirrored into a sibling SongName.samples folder so nothing goes missing when a project moves.

Made for anyone

No DAW vocabulary required. Tap, hold, play — the patches are tuned to sound good on their own, the grid forgives mistakes, and every app in the ecosystem speaks the same file.