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About MaqAmir

A studio in your pocket — multitrack recording, mixing, a synth lab, AI production tools, and cloud sharing, all running natively in the browser with sample-accurate timing, minimum latency, and studio-grade fidelity. No plugins to install.

MaqAmir is built on the Web Audio API. The whole engine — every piano voice, every synth oscillator, every drum machine sample, every FX node — is scheduled against audioContext.currentTime so that nothing drifts, nothing skips, and nothing depends on the JavaScript event loop for timing.

It began because the standard 12-tone equal-temperament keyboard cannot play the music a large part of the world actually listens to. The microtonal piano, the maqam scales, and the per-octave tuning controls were the project's first reason to exist — and they remain a freedom no other DAW offers, always available and never mandatory. Around that core grew a complete production environment: the recording studio, the multitrack mixer, the synth lab, the drum kits, and the AI tools that together make MaqAmir a full DAW you can carry anywhere.

Acknowledgements

MaqAmir stands on a great deal of open-source work and on traditions much older than software. The list below tries to credit every package, sample library, and lineage we rely on. If we've missed you, please get in touch and we'll fix it.

Audio Samples & Sound Libraries

All sample sets are used under their respective open licenses. MaqAmir does not redistribute or modify the original recordings; we stream them from their canonical hosts at playback time.

Core React Ecosystem

  • React
    UI runtime — the foundation everything else builds on.
  • React Router
    Client-side routing across studio modes and pages.
  • TanStack Query
    Server-state caching for entities, recordings, and configs.
  • React Hook Form
    Form state management for settings and creation flows.
  • Zod
    Schema validation for form input and API payloads.
  • Vite
    Dev server and production bundler.

UI, Styling & Components

  • Tailwind CSS
    Utility-first styling across the entire app.
  • shadcn/ui
    Component patterns layered on top of Radix UI primitives.
  • Radix UI
    Accessible primitives — dialogs, popovers, dropdowns, sliders, tooltips.
  • Lucide Icons
    Icon set used throughout the interface.
  • Framer Motion
    Page transitions, drawer animations, and micro-interactions.
  • Sonner
    Toast notifications.
  • Vaul
    Mobile-friendly bottom-sheet drawers.
  • cmdk
    Command palette primitive.
  • Embla Carousel
    Touch-friendly horizontal carousels.
  • class-variance-authority & tailwind-merge
    Type-safe variant management and Tailwind class merging.

Audio, MIDI & DSP

  • Web Audio API
    Foundation of the entire audio engine — every voice, FX node, and scheduler.
  • Web MIDI API
    Hardware MIDI input/output, controller learn, clock sync.
  • lamejs
    In-browser MP3 encoding for shareable recordings.

Data, Charts & Visualization

  • Recharts
    Analytics dashboards and behavior charts.
  • three.js
    WebGL visualizers and 3D ornament effects.
  • react-leaflet
    Map rendering for global activity views.
  • abcjs
    Music notation rendering in the Academy.
  • date-fns
    Date formatting and time-zone math.
  • lodash
    Selected utility helpers.

Markdown, PDF & File I/O

  • react-markdown
    Manifesto and walkthrough article rendering.
  • react-quill
    Rich-text editor for notes and session descriptions.
  • jspdf
    PDF export of recordings and reports.
  • jszip
    Bundling multi-track exports into a single archive.
  • lz-string
    Compression for shareable replay payloads.
  • qrcode.react
    QR codes for jam-session share links.
  • html2canvas
    Canvas snapshots for share-image generation.

Infrastructure & Delivery

  • jsDelivr
    Global CDN delivery for the open-source drum sample sets.

Cultural & Musical Heritage

MaqAmir's microtonal piano and cultural scale library draw on centuries of work by musicians, theorists, and communities far older than any software project. We acknowledge in particular:

  • The Maqam tradition
    Arabic, Turkish, and Persian modal systems that gave the project its name.
  • Carnatic & Hindustani classical traditions
    Raga structures and microtonal practice from the Indian subcontinent.
  • Just Intonation & Equal Temperament researchers
    Tuning systems and historical temperaments referenced in the Scale Library.
  • Solfeggio frequency tradition
    Healing-frequency presets used in the Heal mode.

Trademark Notice

MaqAmir is an independent creative-tools project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or associated with any musical-instrument manufacturer. Any reference in our documentation, source code, or community discussion to a specific commercial product — including but not limited to product names made by Roland Corporation, Yamaha Corporation, Korg Inc., Moog Music Inc., Sequential LLC, Oberheim Electronics, ARP Instruments, PPG, and Casio Computer Co. — is purely descriptive and constitutes nominative fair use to identify the inspiration behind a synthesis preset or sample set.

All product names, model numbers, logos, and brands are property of their respective owners. MaqAmir's presets are original parameter configurations for our own subtractive synthesis engine; they do not contain firmware, ROM data, or proprietary sample content from any third-party instrument.

Drum samples used in the Rhythm Studio are streamed from public-domain / Creative Commons archives that publish them under those licenses (oramics/sampled and fluid-music/open-drums). MaqAmir does not redistribute the original audio files.

If you believe any content in MaqAmir infringes a trademark or copyright you hold, please contact us at legal@maqamir.app and we will respond promptly.