AudioDistillery v0.3.0

AudioDistillery 0.3.0 — the mastering chains era

First release since AudioDistillery went open source (MIT) — and a big one. Everything that happened since v0.1.0:

Real-time mastering with your own plugins

• Audio Units and VST3 hosting, with the plugins' native editors — tweak while you listen.
• Insert chains at three scopes: per layer (pre-fader), per track (active only inside that track), and on the master bus — managed from the new Chains panel (Master / Layers / Tracks, the Tracks section following the playhead).
• Chain presets: save a chain with its live plugin states, reload it on any target in any project.
• Chain latency display; exports render through the exact same signal path, latency-compensated — null-tested bit-perfect between the AU and VST3 builds of the same plugin.
• Custom VST3 scan folders, and a plugin picker that merges both formats per manufacturer with AU/VST3 badges.

Album finishing

• Format-agnostic tagging (ID3v2 / MP4 / Vorbis / RIFF INFO), multi-disc numbering, filename macros, cover art — written correctly, checked against the pickiest consumer (Apple Music).

App & project

• In-app About (version, licenses); click the Still wordmark.
• Clicking a track starts playback when the transport is stopped.
• Projects migrate automatically (v7); your source files remain untouched — as always, enforced by the test suite.

Open source

• MIT license, ARCHITECTURE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, CHANGELOG.md — and the story of why this exists.

macOS builds are signed and notarized. On first launch of the unsigned Linux/Windows builds, the usual platform warnings apply.

"Negative feedbacks" always welcome ;)