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Nota — a free DAW for macOS, Windows and Linux. No subscription, no account — just open it and make music.

Is nota-daw/nota beginner-friendly?

In the last 30 days, nota-daw/nota merged 31 of 34 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars: 83
Forks: 6
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 48
Avg merge: 42m
Merged PRs (30d): 31

Dominant language: C#
License: AGPL-3.0
Last GitHub push: Oct 15, 2026
Latest indexed: Oct 15, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue

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Nota Remote: choose the network interface for the link and QR, and make the link clickable
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enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

nota-daw/nota#85 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Downloads: a queue with pause, reorder, cancel and clear
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enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

nota-daw/nota#84 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Linux: build the AppImage against an older glibc so it runs on RHEL 8/9
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enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

nota-daw/nota#82 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Windows: ASIO driver support (ASIO4ALL, FlexASIO, interface drivers)
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enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

nota-daw/nota#77 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Linux: JACK audio backend (also PipeWire's JACK)
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enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 22/100

nota-daw/nota#76 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Host CLAP plug-ins
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enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100

nota-daw/nota#75 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Host LV2 plug-ins (Linux first)
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enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 14/100

nota-daw/nota#74 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Smooth tempo changes during playback, without audible glitches
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enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

nota-daw/nota#73 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Option to put the track headers on the right side of the arrangement
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nota-daw/nota#72 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Nota Remote: play the project's audio on the phone
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enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 12/100

nota-daw/nota#71 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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OTT-style multiband compression: make Prism's "Upward Squash" findable as OTT, with a simple 4-knob view
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enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nota-daw/nota#70 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Record and automate MIDI CC: sustain pedal, pitch wheel, mod wheel, any CC
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enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 12/100

nota-daw/nota#69 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Browser: make it clear that an effect needs a selected track
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enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

nota-daw/nota#68 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Start screen: close with Esc or a click outside it
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enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 62/100

nota-daw/nota#67 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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What's New: browse every changelog entry, with a search filter
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enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nota-daw/nota#65 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Arrangement sections are not undoable (⌘Z / Ctrl+Z does nothing after creating or editing a section)
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bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

nota-daw/nota#64 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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MIDI learn: smooth breathing animation on assignable controls
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enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

nota-daw/nota#63 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Downloads: browse plug-ins by category (reverb, delay, distortion…)
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enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nota-daw/nota#62 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Custom keyboard shortcuts: edit, detect conflicts, mark changed, reset to default
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enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nota-daw/nota#61 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Show each control's keyboard shortcut in its tooltip, taken from the command catalog
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enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

nota-daw/nota#60 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Double-click the loop brace in the ruler to turn the loop on / off
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enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 45/100

nota-daw/nota#59 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Self-update is easy to miss: check outside the start screen and add "Check for updates…"
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enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

nota-daw/nota#58 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Built-in instruments: no way back to the Init preset once another preset is chosen
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enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

nota-daw/nota#57 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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MIDI recording: show notes in the clip while keys are held, not only on release
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enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nota-daw/nota#56 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Linux: Nota uses 20–30 % more CPU than other DAWs
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bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

nota-daw/nota#55 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Clip editor panel shrinks a little every time a clip is clicked
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bug

Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 66/100

nota-daw/nota#53 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Transport: Shift+Space / Ctrl+Space for pause-here and return-to-start-point
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enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nota-daw/nota#51 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Clip editor: click the ruler to move the playhead
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enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 70/100

nota-daw/nota#50 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Clip editor: track mode showing every clip on the track
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enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nota-daw/nota#49 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Clip editor: edit several clips at once
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enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

nota-daw/nota#48 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Piano roll: make the keys column playable
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enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

nota-daw/nota#47 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Piano roll: note audition toggle (play notes when placing, selecting, dragging)
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enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nota-daw/nota#46 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Piano roll: drag while placing a note to set its length, position or velocity
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enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nota-daw/nota#45 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Piano roll: new notes take the length of the last note touched, not the grid step
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enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 50/100

nota-daw/nota#44 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Piano roll: vertical zoom
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enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

nota-daw/nota#43 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Preferences: behaviour options, starting with "record arm follows track selection"
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enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nota-daw/nota#42 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Option to hide the native title bar and fold File/Edit/View into one Menu button (Windows / Linux)
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enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

nota-daw/nota#41 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Shortcuts filter ignores group titles: "keyboard" doesn't find "Play notes (computer keyboard)"
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bug enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

nota-daw/nota#40 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Dock the Mixer inside Arrangement / Session / Modular, keep the pop-out window
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enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

nota-daw/nota#39 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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UI scaling / font size setting — text too small to read on a 17" laptop
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accessibility enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nota-daw/nota#38 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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dbus errors spam syslog
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enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

nota-daw/nota#36 · Opened Oct 15, 2026

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Non Seamless Looping BUG
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bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nota-daw/nota#33 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

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CTRL+Z Inside of DEVICES Should work, but instead works on midi if thats what i last edited
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nota-daw/nota#30 · Opened Oct 14, 2026

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Recording when playing MIDI & it loops a bar suddenly stops while holding a key if it loops the bar during the hold, and recording live midi on loop 1 bar with same melody punched in on repeat makes it stack overlay at different timings (perhaps a toggle for this)
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bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nota-daw/nota#29 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 14, 2026

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Tests for TruePeakScanner (export true-peak normalize)
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enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

nota-daw/nota#13 · Opened Oct 6, 2026

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Smoke check: C# and C++ scale tables must stay identical
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enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

nota-daw/nota#12 · Opened Oct 6, 2026

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Tests for Domain value types, and reject non-hex TrackColor
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enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

nota-daw/nota#11 · Opened Oct 6, 2026

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Transport tooltips: wrong metronome shortcut, Play/Stop/Record show none
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bug good first issue

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

nota-daw/nota#10 · Opened Oct 6, 2026

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