version 1.0.5

Changes

• Show project-opening progress in the status bar: Reading project, Opening songs, and Indexing instruments.
• Restore legacy voicegroup label discovery.
• Update poryaaaa with the reverb-history wrap fix at DMA segment boundaries.

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1.0.0

Porydaw fork 1.0.0

This is the first numbered release of the Sp3cker fork. It covers committed work since the fork diverged from huderlem/porydaw at 5ff997f0 on August 9, 2026.

Highlights

• Redesigned editor surface. The piano roll, ruler, track headers, lanes, scrollbars, playhead, context menus, and editor prompts now render in a retained Qt Quick scene.
• Editor drawer. Voice Changes, Velocity, and Automation are unified as collapsible bottom-drawer sections with dedicated P, V, and A shortcuts.
• Automation parameter tabs and ghost lanes. Edit one parameter in a shared plot; Command/Ctrl-click another tab to overlay its curve as a named, non-editable reference. Automation colors follow the active theme.
• Searchable voice picker. Insert and edit voice changes through a searchable prompt with held-voice preview.
• Responsive project operations. Project opening, song loading and saving, voicegroup work, sample operations, and catalog scanning run outside the GUI thread.
• Fast session restoration. Songs from the previous session reappear as placeholder tabs while they load. Find Song and movable project docks improve navigation.
• Faster, safer voicegroup editing. Voicegroup maps and banks are cached per project; failed reloads retain the last playable bank; blank slots can be materialized and edited with undo.
• Immediate playback updates. Timeline-changing edits reach the audio engine without reopening the song.
• More reliable MIDI import. Tick overflow is reported instead of silently wrapping, division rescaling is preflighted, and import track counts use the same mapping as the playback engine.
• Expanded transport bar. Adds scale root/type, Highlight, Fold, resonance suppression, master volume, and an accessible output-volume control.
• Per-track activity lights. Stereo activity indicators in the track headers show which tracks are sounding, including paused-state presentation.
• Canonical Edit menu. Commands are organized into Time, Notes, Move, Tracks, Automation, Events, Loop, and Transport submenus with live enabled state.
• Improved keyboard routing. Space continues to control playback when Qt Quick chrome or numeric drag fields have focus.
• Separate application identity. The fork uses organization sp3cker and bundle ID com.sp3cker.porydaw, so it can be installed beside the upstream application. Preferences are separate and are not migrated.
• Cross-platform packages. CI produces Linux, macOS ARM64, macOS Intel, and Windows downloads with their required Qt and QML runtime components.
• Faster release binaries. Release builds use C++20, link-time optimization, precompiled headers, and an always-optimized audio engine.

Intentional differences from upstream

• Keyboard shortcuts use a fixed shipped catalogue; the shortcut-rebinding interface was removed.
• Themes are limited to Vanilla, Dark Neutral High, and Immaterial plus grid-line contrast; the Custom theme editor, OKLCh picker, and system-font option were removed.
• Per-song view-state sidecars were removed, so reopening a song does not restore its previous zoom, scroll position, and lane layout.
• Pending-registration sidecars were removed, so constant/player choices for unregistered songs are not retained across project restarts.
• Song ticks use a bounded 32-bit representation with saturating arithmetic. Overflowing imports and edits fail clearly, at the cost of extreme-length song support.

Recent upstream work not yet integrated

These features landed on huderlem/porydaw after the branches diverged. Their absence here is pending integration, not an intentional fork removal.

• JavaScript plugins and scripting APIs, including plugin panels, menus, storage, file access, transport control, and audio analysis.
• Tempo control in the transport bar and import-time coalescing of tempo events onto chunk 0.
• Direct time-selection gestures: Alt-drag to move, Ctrl+Alt-drag to duplicate, and Shift+Alt-drag to insert space. Equivalent edits remain available through commands in the fork.
• Rebindable mouse-wheel pan and zoom actions.
• The draggable Beat Companion.
• Returning the playhead to the edit cursor when playback stops.
• Auditioning notes at their stored pan and volume.

Installation

Download the package for your platform from the assets below. On macOS, read RUN AFTER INSTALL.txt in the disk image before launching the application.