Anklang 0.1.0

Anklang 0.1.0

System Requirements

• Linux - Ubuntu 20.04 is needed to run the Anklang AppImage

Hardware Support

• Build and package a second sound engine binary with AVX & FMA optimizations.

Documentation

• Extended documentation in many places.
• Improved copyright listing of all source files involved.
• Provide user documentation as anklang-manual.pdf.
• Provide developer documentation as anklang-internals.pdf.

User Interface

• Improve UI responsiveness when handling async API calls.
• Support proper note selection sets in the piano roll.
• Introduced Undo/Redo stack for piano roll changes.
• Use batch processing to responsively handle thousands of notes.
• Support shortcut editing for piano roll functions.
• Added Cut/Copy/Paste to piano roll.
• Added play position indicator to piano roll.
• Tool selection in piano roils now works on hover.
• Notes moved in the piano roll now properly bounce against edges.
• Selection in the piano roll now supports SHIFT and CONTROL.
• Clips can now store notes with velocity=0.
• Migrated CSS processing to postcss.
• Fix file path handling for project load and save.
• Shortend nicknames are now auto-derived for external plugins.
• Support loading of command line files in Anklang.
• Add MIME support for starting Anklang for *.anklang files.

Synthesis

• Support single clip looping (very rudimentary), to be extended later.
• Add Gtk+-2 dynlib to provide a wrapper window for plugin UIs.
• Add support for CLAP-1.0.2 plugin loading and processing, the following
  CLAP extensions are currently implemented:
  LOG, GUI, TIMER_SUPPORT, THREAD_CHECK, AUDIO_PORTS, PARAMS, STATE,
  POSIX_FD_SUPPORT, AUDIO_PORTS_CONFIG, AUDIO_PORTS, NOTE_PORTS.

Internals

• Provide infrastructure for future piano roll scripting.
• Support lean UI component implementations with lit.js.
• Use ZCAM color model to design/saturate/etc colors of the UI.
• Updated various third party components.
• Use Electron-18.3.5 as basis for the UI.
• Use adaptive ZSTD compression for project storage.
• Use fast ZSTD compression for binary snapshots in Undo/Redo steps.
• Support sound engine blocks up to 2k.
• Adjust block sizes to reduce PulseAudio overhead.
• Keys matching in ASE_DEBUG is now case insensitive.
• Anklang can now be started with '--dev' to force open DevTools.

Other

• License clarification, the project uses MPL-2.0.
• Improved reproducible dockerized builds.
• Fixed dependencies of the Debian packages. #3

Anklang 0.0.1-alpha1

Anklang 0.0.1-alpha1

System Requirements

• Linux - Ubuntu 20.04 is needed to run the Anklang AppImage

Packaging

• Build AppImage binaries with linuxdeploy, appimage-runtime-zstd
• Add build script for Debian package creation

Hardware Support

• Add ALSA MIDI and ALSA PCM drivers
• Support playback of MIDI input events
• Support ALSA device selection via UI preferences
• Prioritize drivers based on headset/USB/HDMI/Duplex properties

Documentation

• Add manpage (markdown), build documentation with pandoc2
• Add Anklang manual (markdown), support Latex based PDF builds
• Extract Javascript documentation with jsdoc
• Allow MathJax in the Anklang manual
• Add comprehensive 'copyright' file generation

User Interface

• Support Web browser based UI (Firefox, Chrome)
• Suppport Electron based UI, test via 'make run'
• Add Json, ZIP and zstd based storage of Anklang projects
• Add UI support for modal dialogs with focus capturing
• Add UI for file load and save dialogs in the browser
• Support the XDG directory specification
• Add an Anklang logo favicon
• Add support for fly-over popups to alert users
• Support UI tooltips and hints in the status bar
• Add Vue3 and Electron based UI, use scss for styles
• Work around Chrome's movementX/Y devicePixelRatio bug Chrome#1092358

Synthesis

• Use seperate thread for digital synthesis
• Integrate resampler2 code from Stefan Westerfeld
• Integrate blepsynth module from Stefan Westerfeld
• Add support for synchronized multi-track playback

Interprocess Communication

• Provide updated JsonIpc layer for remote calls and event delivery
• Send realtime status updates as int/float blobs via IPC (termed 'telemtry')
• Support realtime UI updates via IPC by receiving telemetry at up to 60Hz

Build System

• Support automated Github CI via docker based builds
• Support Javascript and C++ linting
• Notify #Anklang on libera.chat about CI build results
• Integrate Inter font, ForkAwesome, material-icons and anklangicons-201123
• Integrate external sources from websocketpp, rapidjson, minizip-ng
• Add robust support for multiple targets for one Make rule
• Support live editing and reload via 'make serve'
• Employ fast build GNU Make based build setup

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