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WiresCreative tools for Linux

Compose, design, and perform with the creative tools you already know,on a self-sovereign, open-source stack.

  1. Step 1
    Download RuntimeCarlos-Kliener Pre-releaseDownload started
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  2. Step 2
    Download Wires InstallerDownload started
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  3. Step 3

    Download App Installers

    Download Ableton Live 12via Ableton.comDownload startedDownload Max 9via Cycling 74Download started
  4. Step 4

    Open a terminal and install:

    cd ~/Downloads
sh ./Wires.Install.Ableton.Live.12+20261014-1918.Standalone.run
sh ./Wires.Install.Max.9+20261014-1918.Standalone.run

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Credits

A Para-Real Ltd. project.
Maintained by Cade Diehm, Lucas Gillingham, and Sebastian Thümmel.

With Louis Center, Sofi Xian, Don Edler and the Ableton on Linux Discord community.

About & Support

The creative industries face a new hostile reality: the computers you depend on increasingly work against you. Surveillance, expensive hardware upgrades, and planned obsolescence threaten your livelihood and access to your creative history. You shouldn’t need to give up your creative practice to protect yourself.

Wires brings the creative software you already use to Linux as first-class applications, letting you work on your own self-sovereign, customisable stack. Wires builds on years of research into technological dependence and cultural preservation.

Contribute to Wires to support our R&D, compatibility engineering, and preservation research.

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