Get Kiwisonic with Kiwisynth bundled in, or take Kiwisynth, Kiwipulse or Kiwibass to your DAW as a plugin. Free during early preview, no subscription required.
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Download .exe InstallerKiwisonic is lightweight and runs on most Windows and Linux machines from the last decade.
Windows 10 (64-bit) or Windows 11, or a 64-bit Linux desktop with glibc 2.35 or newer (Ubuntu 22.04+, Debian 12+, recent Fedora or Arch). Mac support is planned for a future release.
4 GB minimum. 8 GB recommended, especially if using VST3 plugins or large SFZ sample libraries.
~200 MB for the application. Additional space needed for SFZ sample libraries (varies by library).
Any audio device your system supports. On Linux, ALSA, PipeWire or PulseAudio all work. A dedicated audio interface is recommended for lower latency, but not required.
Up and running in under two minutes.
Click the Download button above. The .exe installer file will be saved to your Downloads folder.
Double-click the downloaded .exe file. If Windows SmartScreen shows a warning, click "More info" then "Run anyway". This is normal for new applications.
Accept the licence agreement and choose your install location. The default location works fine for most users.
Open Kiwisonic from the Start menu or the desktop shortcut. On first launch, pick a genre and start composing.
Kiwisynth is bundled with Kiwisonic above. You can also run it on its own in any Windows or Linux DAW that supports VST3 or CLAP: the same engine, the same presets, the same modulation system.
v · builds for Windows. Also available for Linux. macOS planned for a later release.
Design drums that change from hit to hit, then let your DAW play them. A Windows standalone app and a CLAP plugin for Windows and Linux, and it loads inside Kiwisonic like any other CLAP instrument.
v · builds for Windows. Also available for Linux. What Kiwipulse does.
Draw a bass across the phrase in the standalone editor, then play the patch in your DAW through the CLAP plugin. Put everything in the plugin download into your CLAP folder, keeping the presets folder beside the plugin.
v · builds for Windows. Also available for Linux. What Kiwibass does.
A set of instruments is ready the moment you launch, with nothing to install: an Electric Piano modelled on the Rhodes, the TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines built the way the hardware built them, and Kiwisynth, a full wavetable synthesizer with an editable preset library covering bass, leads, pads and keys. Kiwisonic also plays SFZ sample instruments, so you can point it at a free SFZ library and assign instruments to any track.
Plugin hosting is included, still in early testing. If you own VST3 or CLAP instruments, you can load them on any Kiwisonic track. Kiwisynth installs as VST3 and CLAP and Kiwipulse as CLAP, so they run here and in your DAW, and the sounds you build carry between them.