First Take

Highlights

This release adds recording support, an app-agnostic DAWproject import/export pipeline, and an encoder / decoder for ProjectBundles. The SDK and core libraries were restructured, documentation expanded, and the codebase aligned under the AGPL-3 license.

npm install @opendaw/studio-sdk

Browse: @opendaw/studio-sdk

SDK and Libraries

• Refactor moving controller learning, worklets, and workers into SDK/core
• New lib-midi and lib-xml foundations
• Additions like Promises.memoizeAsync, ObservableOption, ConstrainDOM

Recording

• Audio and MIDI recording infrastructure with step recording, count-in, and arming
• Visual recording states and abort handling
• Shift + Record to suppress count-in

DAWproject

• Import/export pipeline for audio, MIDI, devices, sends, routing, and metadata
• Export to Bitwig tested with notes, audio, and devices
• DawProject schema introduced with parsing, validation, and tests

What is DAWproject

Project & Bundling

• Isolated ProjectBundle for asset management
• Sample storage in OPFS with metadata
• Dynamic imports for ZIP handling and improved serialization

User Interface

• GraphPage
• Device and track UI refinements
• Improved keyboard capture, tab navigation, and labeling
• Error handling updated to use warnings instead of panics

Other

• New AGPL-3 license
• Expanded documentation and manuals
• Infrastructure for publishing SDK packages
• Test coverage improved

Thanks to Riffle for sponsoring this update! ❤️