DAWG is a music-making game for building beats, shaping sounds, and exploring music production. Its step sequencer and piano roll support patterns up to 128 steps, with controls for velocity, quantize, and snap-to-grid. The listed instruments include drums, bass, synth, groove, guitar, arp, sampler, electric, and vocal types. Sound design tools include oscillator, envelope, and filter controls, plus delay, reverb, saturation, and chorus effects. A mixer provides per-instrument faders, pan, mute, and solo, as well as a master spectrum analyzer, VU meters, and integrated LUFS monitoring. Users can export tracks as WAV files, and sessions are saved locally for later reopening. Jam Mode allows players to connect over local Wi-Fi and make music together. DAWG supports class-compliant USB or Bluetooth MIDI controllers, gamepads, microphones, and USB audio interfaces, with ASIO on Windows. Beginner tutorials are included. The product is in development, and some features shown may be ahead of the public build. The early playable release has rough edges. The listed price is 5.00 USD per once, with a minimum purchase price of $5 USD.
Who it is for
DAWG is suited to beginners and others looking for a playful way to explore music production, as well as users who want to make music together over local Wi-Fi.
What is good
- Patterns support up to 128 steps.
- Tracks can be exported as WAV files.
- Sessions can be reopened from the user's device.
- Jam Mode connects players over local Wi-Fi.
- Beginner tutorials are included.
What to know first
- The playable release is described as having rough edges.
- Some shown features may be ahead of the public build.
- The product is still in development.
Verdict
DAWG combines sequencing, sound shaping, mixing, and WAV export in a music-making game. Its development status and early-build caveats matter for anyone choosing it now.
DAWG plans and pricing
All plansCompared on beat making software
- Free plan
- Yes
- Platforms
- cross_platform
- Plugin support
- No
- MIDI support
- Yes
- Sample import
- Yes
- Audio export
- WAV
