Anvil 1.15.1 - for Windows

Anvil 1.15.1 - for Windows

A small release on top of 1.15.0. Two things changed: PERFORM now does what its name promised,
and the boot sequence stopped leaving a tail of audio behind it.

What's new

PERFORM has an engine. The page always said "velocity and key response for the performance
land here" - and then didn't. It does now, with two real controls on its VOICE panel:

• Curve shapes what you play into the engine, note by note. At the centre it is linear; turn
  it down and the quiet end of your playing gets quieter, so soft passages have somewhere to go.
  Turn it up and the response flattens toward full level. The mod matrix reads the same curved
  value, so anything routed from velocity follows it.
• Key resp is how far playing harder opens the filter. At zero it does nothing; at full it
  moves the cutoff about two octaves from soft to hard, centred on the middle of your playing
  range rather than on the extremes.

Both are per-patch, like every other control - a session or project remembers them.

It is measured, not asserted: the same note at the same input gain, three interleaved rounds,
with an analyser on the engine's own master output - soft 0.019, linear 0.058, hard 0.113 peak.
Ordered in every round.

The first second after launch is cleaner. 1.15.0 warmed the engine silently at start-up so
your first chord didn't stutter, but it restored the output after a fixed delay - which could
leave a release tail briefly audible if a voice was still ringing. It now waits for the voice
pool to actually empty before letting sound back out.

In this release

• Anvil-1.15.1-Setup.exe - the installer. Per-user (no admin prompt), Start Menu entry and
  desktop shortcut, upgrades install straight over the top, clean uninstall from Add/Remove.
  Not code-signed yet: SmartScreen will say it hasn't seen this app before - More info, then
  Run anyway.
• Anvil-1.15.1-Setup.exe.zip - the same installer as a zip, byte for byte.
• Anvil-1.15.1-source.zip - the corresponding source for this build (AGPL-3.0-or-later).

How this build was checked

All 28 app suites ran green on these bytes (hub 68 checks, fit 49, accessibility 37, sessions 65,
smoke 81). The desktop suite drives the packaged program - 32 checks, green. A silent install,
then an upgrade over the top, then an uninstall, left user data intact and the registry clean.

Bench on the packaged engine: realtime ratio 1.0, published 64 voices on the light tier, offline
knee at 96 pass / 128 fail and monotone, zero invalid reads. Alias suite complete.

The stress rig (ten minutes at 64 voices, real knob work, drain checks) reported 5 dropped audio
buffers in the whole run - 4 of them inside its deliberate unison over-drive probe, and 1 in
the first fifteen seconds. On 1.15.0 the same window measured 0. That single buffer is 2.7 ms
in ten minutes, and the same window has measured 1, 7 and 10 across builds depending on what
else the machine was doing; it is recorded here rather than rounded away.

sha256

24068183c6a56dec6d89921cb9fda671fd285002c568e3a95d5cd07f4d7e26b4 Anvil-1.15.1-Setup.exe
100,936,264 bytes

3b40f4771e7b3a499fb91ef7a542fab011923b9b0ea755ceac200f1e53f283a4 Anvil-1.15.1-Setup.exe.zip
100,457,332 bytes

530fa355b21179544eafd2081e115cb066f00c6b018e4e0cb7428ed71a470cc5 Anvil-1.15.1-source.zip
45,769,440 bytes

On Windows: certutil -hashfile "Anvil-1.15.1-Setup.exe.zip" SHA256. The exe inside unzips to
the first hash. The installer carries app build ccaff458, the same build that is live at
moddys.net/anvil.

The download page is also https://moddys.net/moddys-downloads.html.

Cheers Moddy !

Anvil 1.15.0 - for Windows

Anvil 1.15.0 - for Windows

Anvil is a synth-and-groovebox you can actually play: acid, wavetable, FM, string, drum,
granular and sampler engines in one instrument; a native step sequencer with chains, song rows
and scenes; a seven-slot FX rack with a drag-to-modulate matrix; a tuning studio (12 scales,
Scala .scl/.kbm import, live MTS SysEx receive); an import pipeline and a searchable library for
your own sounds; a store with 10 packs / 580 presets; and a recording desk that exports WAV,
stems, MIDI and Song Bundles. It is the same app as the free in-browser version at
moddys.net/anvil - this is that app in its own window, by itself. It is a MODDYS Foundry
instrument and a sibling of Pattern Forge.

This release is the instrument rebuilt, not a patch. If you tried the beta in October, this is
a different instrument to look at and a much better one to work in.

A look at the Windows build:

What's new

A new chassis. Nine pages in signal order - browse, perform, sound, shape, sequence,
effects, mix, deliver, system - on a proper instrument frame: a band across the top, the page
tabs, the work surface, the voice inspector down the right and the keys at the bottom. The
inspector is live: the kind keys switch the engine, the core pots ride the real parameter paths,
and POLY/MONO is a real per-channel allocator now instead of a label.

Every page rebuilt around the work. Each card leads with the surface you actually play: the
pads, the grid, the piano roll, the mixer strips. The reference material - module knobs, routing
tables, glue and master chain, auto-mix, A/B - folds behind a chip and costs one line when it is
closed. Nothing folded is a control you need mid-performance: the FILL toggle moved out of the
folded generators and onto the transport row for exactly that reason.

Six new screens, drawn from the engine's own numbers. The filter response inset in the
engine card is painted from the same biquad coefficients the audio path runs. The envelopes
overlay draws the two real envelopes. Every FX strip carries its module's screen - drive
transfer curve, compressor in/out, delay taps, reverb and convolution tails, the mod LFO. The
mixer has a master EQ curve you can drag, and every strip carries a waveform of its source. The
modulation matrix is a routing graph now: sources on the left, six destinations on the right,
one line per slot, and you can drag a chip straight onto pitch and pan. The sequencer draws the
song as bars above the grid, with captured scenes you can recall from the strip.

Two new controls, used where they belong. Two-choice switches (DELIVER's bit depth, CODE's
module kind) are a pair of keys over the same hidden value, and number fields (MIX compressor
fade, studio offset) are real inputs flanked by steppers - one click is one step, and a clamp
does not fire an event it did not make. Knobs, faders and the rest of the vocabulary are
unchanged.

Accessibility, finished rather than promised. Every disclosure publishes its state, every
one of the 44 tabs resolves its panel and names it back, the FM operator keys are a real tab set
(one tab stop, arrows walk the six operators), and the focus order is recorded per page and
checked with real key presses on every run.

No first-second crackle. The engine now warms all 64 voices silently at start-up, so the
first chord you play after opening the app runs on warm code instead of stuttering through the
one-time cost of building the voice pool. On the stress rig this removed every dropped audio
buffer in the first thirty seconds - it used to be the only place drops ever happened.

In this release

• Anvil-1.15.0-Setup.exe - the installer. Per-user (no admin prompt), Start Menu entry and
  desktop shortcut, upgrades install straight over the top, clean uninstall from Add/Remove.
  It is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen will say it hasn't seen this app before - More
  info, then Run anyway.
• Anvil-1.15.0-Setup.exe.zip - the same installer as a zip, byte for byte: the exact file
  moddys.net/moddys-downloads.html serves.
• Anvil-1.15.0-source.zip - the corresponding source for this build (AGPL-3.0-or-later): the
  app build frozen into the installer, the src/ tree it is assembled from, the Electron shell,
  the installer script, and the build and verification tools.

Good to know

• Windows 10/11, 64-bit. Everything the app needs is inside the install - the engine, all ten
  packs, the help and the walkthrough - so it opens and plays with no network at all. The only
  online parts are the family bridges (importing a Resonance Studio pack, the World Radio
  hand-off), and those go out only when you click them.
• Your projects, sessions, takes, installed packs and settings live in %APPDATA%\Anvil. The
  installer never touches that folder; the uninstaller keeps it by default and asks before
  deleting anything - installing again picks up where you left off. Nothing is sent anywhere.
• Verified on this exact payload: the app's own suites ran green on the frozen build (28 suites,
  hub 68 checks, fit 49, accessibility 37; bench, alias and stress clean), the desktop suite
  drives the installed program (32 checks), and a silent install -> upgrade-over install ->
  uninstall journey (28 checks) leaves your data intact. The build inside the installer is
  byte-identical to the one live at moddys.net/anvil.
• If something breaks, tell me: modtech@gmail.com.

sha256

e3a16a2259dd06ae812e509145f4cc77f294689510c38d400310edda818db864 Anvil-1.15.0-Setup.exe
100,936,871 bytes

6f8dda610927607eb92e1dbba39ce5217b23b7a90db56e9a381cf475e6a17c57 Anvil-1.15.0-Setup.exe.zip
100,457,994 bytes

c083920c2f99440289772fc2f648dcf22fcc147c0c7f99b0fad02246118762de Anvil-1.15.0-source.zip
45,750,275 bytes

On Windows: certutil -hashfile "Anvil-1.15.0-Setup.exe.zip" SHA256. The exe inside unzips
to the first hash, which is also the installer attached to this release. The installer carries
app build e8aaee89, the same build that is live at moddys.net/anvil.

The download page is also https://moddys.net/moddys-downloads.html.

Cheers Moddy !

Anvil 1.15.0 (beta) - for Windows

Superseded by v1.15.0. This beta is kept for the record; the current release is a different instrument to look at.

Anvil 1.15.0 (beta) - for Windows

The first Windows release of Anvil - the whole instrument, in its own window.

Anvil is a synth-and-groovebox you can actually play: acid, wavetable, FM, string, drum,
granular and sampler engines in one instrument; a native step sequencer with chains, song rows
and scenes; a seven-slot FX rack with a drag-to-modulate matrix; a tuning studio (12 scales,
Scala .scl/.kbm import, live MTS SysEx receive); an import pipeline and a searchable library for
your own sounds; a store with 10 packs / 580 presets; and a recording desk that exports WAV,
stems, MIDI and Song Bundles. It is the same app as the free in-browser version at
moddys.net/anvil - this is that app in its own window, by itself. It is a MODDYS Foundry
instrument and a sibling of Pattern Forge.

A look at the Windows build:

What's new

• The desktop build itself. Anvil opens as a normal Windows program now - no browser, no
  tabs. It serves its own files from an internal loopback address (what the audio worklet, the
  clipboard and local storage want), grants MIDI and autoplay up front, and asks for nothing
  else.
• The instrument inside it is app build 1.15.0, with the newest app work included: the
  Import & Library overlay (search-first, with format and pack facets, bulk actions and row
  preview), the library overlay's resize / minimize / maximize controls, and the header fit fix
  • on top of the finished instrument (the tuning studio, acid step accents, the fill toggle,
    full undo coverage, boot templates, a multi-tab save note, and tempo/root/key auto-tags from
    WAV metadata).

In this release

• Anvil-1.15.0-Setup.exe - the installer. Per-user (no admin prompt), Start Menu entry and
  desktop shortcut, upgrades install straight over the top, clean uninstall from Add/Remove.
  It is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen will say it hasn't seen this app before - More
  info, then Run anyway.
• Anvil-1.15.0-Setup.exe.zip - the same installer as a zip, byte for byte: the exact file
  moddys.net/moddys-downloads.html serves.
• Anvil-1.15.0-source.zip - the corresponding source for this build (AGPL-3.0-or-later): the
  app build frozen into the installer, the src/ tree it is assembled from, the Electron shell,
  the installer script, and the build and verification tools.

Good to know

• Windows 10/11, 64-bit. Everything the app needs is inside the install - the engine, all ten
  packs, the help and the walkthrough - so it opens and plays with no network at all. The only
  online parts are the family bridges (importing a Resonance Studio pack, the World Radio
  hand-off), and those go out only when you click them.
• Your projects, sessions, takes, installed packs and settings live in %APPDATA%\Anvil. The
  installer never touches that folder; the uninstaller keeps it by default and asks before
  deleting anything - installing again picks up where you left off. Nothing is sent anywhere.
• Verified on this exact payload: the desktop suite driving the installed program
  (31 checks - the worklet engine tier, a note played with a master-tap
  witness, MIDI, the library overlay, zero page errors) and a silent install -> upgrade-over
  install -> uninstall journey (28 checks) that leaves your data intact. The
  build inside the installer is byte-identical to the one live at moddys.net/anvil (6ac4425b);
  the app's own gates ran green first-lap (27 suites, hub 68 checks, fit 49; bench and alias
  clean; the leak probe 11/11, file and live).
• This is a beta - if something breaks, tell me: modtech@gmail.com.

sha256

2b83ded4c00e6c7d934b8c1a68827a61b29b62ea00ddc83af36c4be064f7a9da Anvil-1.15.0-Setup.exe
18da99f75f8ff85dcb60fc0839a9cc566f3580b14a43a625a0da0a2f267bacb7 Anvil-1.15.0-Setup.exe.zip
5dcea21ac5b6403239640bdbb5f27a1d6b8ff1dc44dc34a8682fc3cf0aff1037 Anvil-1.15.0-source.zip

The download page is also https://moddys.net/moddys-downloads.html.

Cheers Moddy !