diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/traverso/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/traverso/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9729b136d905
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/traverso/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, cmake, pkgconfig
+, alsaLib, fftw, flac, lame, libjack2, libmad, libpulseaudio
+, libsamplerate, libsndfile, libvorbis, portaudio, qtbase, wavpack
+}:
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "traverso-${version}";
+  version = "0.49.5";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://traverso-daw.org/traverso-0.49.5.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "169dsqrf807ciavrd82d3iil0xy0r3i1js08xshcrn80ws9hv63m";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake pkgconfig ];
+  buildInputs = [ alsaLib fftw flac.dev libjack2 lame
+                  libmad libpulseaudio libsamplerate.dev libsndfile.dev libvorbis
+                  portaudio qtbase wavpack ];
+
+  cmakeFlags = [ "-DWANT_PORTAUDIO=1" "-DWANT_PULSEAUDIO=1" "-DWANT_MP3_ENCODE=1" "-DWANT_LV2=0" ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Cross-platform multitrack audio recording and audio editing suite";
+    homepage = http://traverso-daw.org/;
+    license = with licenses; [ gpl2Plus lgpl21Plus ];
+    platforms = platforms.all;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ coconnor ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index fe03999a4694..346419ddd034 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -19389,6 +19389,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   transgui = callPackage ../applications/networking/p2p/transgui { };
 
+  traverso = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/audio/traverso { };
+
   trayer = callPackage ../applications/window-managers/trayer { };
 
   tree = callPackage ../tools/system/tree {};