Mixer
Balance levels and understand how tracks come together in a mix.
FUNtasia Studio / Free educational audio software
Learn the studio.Find your sound.
A creative space where the fundamentals of music production become something you can see, touch and try. No price barrier. No single way to make music.
BETA 1.2.0FREEWINDOWSEDUCATIONAL USE
01 / THE STUDIO, YOUR WAY
Change the atmosphere
One workspace.
Nine different moods.
Choose from nine named colour themes, including Sakura Pink and Aquamarine. The same creative workspace takes on a whole new character, from quiet charcoal to deep forest green. Select any preview to view it larger.
The window icon and splash screen follow the selected theme. Original Sage uses the Forest splash. Real interface previews. Swipe sideways to explore all nine on smaller screens.
02 / CREATE WITHOUT THE TOOL SHUFFLE
A modern editing flow
Keep your ideas moving.
Not your tool selector.
Work directly with notes, regions and parameters in a unified editing environment. The aim is a more natural creative flow, without constantly switching between dedicated tools for every little action.
- Audio & MIDI tracks
- Timeline and region editing
- Piano roll & velocity controls
- Automation editing
03 / SHAPE EVERY DETAIL
Creative control
From a first idea to a world of sound.
Build layered arrangements, explore instruments and effects, and learn what changes when you move a fader, automate a parameter or route a signal differently. A broad sound palette, with the controls close to your hands.
- Mixing and signal flow
- VST3 instrument & effect browser
- Device Rack / Chain / FX Layer
- Samples and sound sources
04 / A CONNECTED WORKSPACE
Learn by doing
The pieces of production, together.
Practice arranging, processing and balancing audio without leaving the learning environment. Each area opens a different part of how music is made.
Device Rack
Explore instruments, effects, chains and layered processing in context.
Sample Library
Browse sounds and audition one-bar MIDI drum fills with acoustic or electronic preview kits.
05 / THEORY YOU CAN EXPLORE
Where sound meets understanding
Hear the theory.
Explore the possibilities.
Built-in learning views make scales, chords and voicings easier to investigate. Move between musical curiosity and hands-on practice, whether you're starting out or revisiting the fundamentals.
Key & Chord Guide / Scale Browser
Study tonal relationships and explore scales, including the experimental Ruri-style degree notation.
Voicing Browser
Compare ways of placing notes and shaping the colour of a chord.
Pedal Harp
Explore a different instrumental perspective within the voicing and music-theory tools.
Why FUNtasia Studio exists
Opportunity to learn should not depend on what you can afford.
For a young person making their first track. For someone balancing an everyday budget. For someone who could afford expensive equipment but simply wants to learn. FUNtasia Studio opens the same learning environment to everyone, free of charge.
It is an educational and experimental space for studying masterclass materials and discovering how production works — not a promise of production-grade reliability.
Different circumstances. Equal curiosity. Equal access.
06 / START EXPLORING
Beta 1.2.0 · November 2026
Your learning space is ready.
UPDATES THROUGH BETA 1.2.0 / DEVELOPMENT HIGHLIGHTS
GUI Harmony — a more cohesive creative workspace.
- New in Beta 1.2.0 — GUI Harmony: Refined Original Sage, reduced decorative borders, and improved visual consistency across the arrangement view, Piano Roll, device browser and track controls.
- New in Beta 1.2.0 — Deep Brown: Updated the theme with darker, less glaring colours. All nine colour themes remain available.
- New in Beta 1.1.7 — Nine dark themes: Added Sakura Pink and Aquamarine to the existing seven palettes, with matching window, splash and optional shortcut icon assets.
- New in Beta 1.1.7 — Piano-roll keyboard editing: Refined arrow-key note movement while preserving text-field keyboard focus.
- New in Beta 1.1.2 — Automatic MIDI input enabling: Connected MIDI input devices are enabled on startup and when reconnected or powered on; inputs you manually disable stay disabled.
- New in Beta 1.1.2 — Bounce/Undo safeguards: Completely empty MIDI regions are skipped before bouncing, and Undo restores selection more safely. The root cause of a previously reported crash is not yet confirmed.
- Experimental Ruri-style chord notation: Extensions are expressed as degrees (9 → 2, 11 → 4, 13 → 6); for example,
Cadd9 → 1^235andCsus2 → 1^25. Available for exploration in the Key & Chord Guide, Scale/Voicing Browser, guitar fretboard and Chord Track, including input previews. - Piano roll & editing refinements: Improvements to MIDI note editing, multi-track and group operations, and velocity-based note audition with better note-off/gate behavior.
- Mixer & device workflow: Add insert effects from the Mixer + control, access instrument interfaces from the Inspector, and reorder VST device cards.
- Stability & focus refinements: Plug-in scanning no longer forces its window to stay on top; envelope and voice-stop behavior has been refined.
- Voicing auditions: Hear chord voicings using the bundled FreePats guitar and concert-harp SFZ instruments.
- 300 original one-bar drum fills: GM-compatible MIDI patterns covering 200 in 4/4 and 100 in 6/8.
- Drum preview sounds: Choose Acoustic Lite or Electronic SFZ sounds and audition MIDI fills from the Sample Library Browser or FILES tab.
Ruri-style notation is an experimental introduction. The Bounce/Undo safeguards are not a guarantee against all crashes. This remains a learning-oriented pre-release, and features may continue to evolve.
FUNtasia Studio Beta 1.2.0
Free Windows educational application. Check the GitHub release page for the downloadable ZIP, included files, setup information and notices.
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07 / SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT
Support the Studio
Help keep the door to learning open to everyone.
FUNtasia Studio is free so that anyone can explore and learn how music production works, regardless of their financial circumstances. We want to keep building this learning space while staying true to that commitment.
We are actively asking for donations and support to keep development going.
Creating and maintaining software takes time and money, from development equipment to the everyday costs of sustaining the work. If you believe in this mission and are in a position to help, please consider supporting it.
Our Amazon Wish List includes development equipment, food, and everyday essentials. Gifts from the list make a meaningful difference in helping us continue development.
SUPPORT VIA AMAZON WISH LIST ↗All support is entirely optional. FUNtasia Studio remains free regardless of whether you contribute. Please only give if it is comfortable for you.