Aria Maestosa
Aria Maestosa is a free, open-source MIDI sequencer and editor for macOS designed for composing and editing music. It provides a piano roll editor where musicians can draw notes directly onto a grid, a track editor for managing instrument layers, and a lyrics editor for songwriting. The app supports VST instruments, MIDI file import/export, recording MIDI input from keyboard controllers, quantization, velocity and duration editing, and includes a built-in synthesizer. Aria Maestosa is lightweight and works as a complementary tool for sketching and prototyping musical ideas before expanding them in larger DAWs like Logic Pro or Ableton Live.
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1 suggestionThe search results and the hosting information provided (which mentions compatibility with Apple M1 Pro hardware) suggest Aria Maestosa may have been compiled for Apple Silicon, but the evidence is ambiguous — the snippet does not explicitly confirm a native build has been released, and the open-source project's official repository and release pages would be the authoritative source. As an actively maintained, open-source project, Aria Maestosa may have already received native Apple Silicon support, but we cannot confirm it with certainty from the available information. Check the official Aria Maestosa GitHub repository or the project's downloads page to see whether a native Universal Binary or arm64-specific build is available. If you find only Intel builds in the official distribution, contact the project maintainers or file an issue requesting Apple Silicon support; as an open-source MIDI editor with an active community, this is a reasonable request and the developers may already be working on it. Given that Aria Maestosa is a relatively lightweight, open-source tool without external dependencies on proprietary codecs or closed-source VST loaders, porting to native Apple Silicon is typically straightforward, so a native build may arrive before the September 2028 macOS 28 deadline.
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