ArkaneDAW v0.3.4

New instrument: Guitar

A modelled guitar in the Synths group, with steel-string acoustic, nylon classical and electric (single-coil, humbucker, hollow-body) models. Every note is played on a real string and fret:

• Chords are fingered like real grips and strummed string by string (down, up or alternating), with strum time and humanize controls.
• Solo mode: overlapping notes hammer on and pull off; bigger jumps (or slide notes) slide along the string. Vibrato and pitch bend.
• Strummer mode: hold a chord and play the rhythm on the strum keyswitches, like Ample's strummer.
• Keyswitches: C2 sustain, D2 palm mute, E2 muted, F2 harmonics, G2 strum down, A2 strum up, B2 mute strum.
• Tunings: standard, Drop D, Eb/D standard, Drop C, Open G, Open D, DADGAD.
• Built-in amp & cab (clean, crunch, lead, metal) with a noise gate, plus double tracking, a room reverb and a live fretboard that shows the fingering (click it to play).
• 22 presets, from fingerpicked nylon and strummed acoustic to funk, jazz, rock leads and metal chugs.

Concerto

• Percussion now includes clash cymbals (crash and choke), a suspended cymbal (mallet, stick, bell, roll with real endings, swells) and a gong / tam-tam. If you already have the Concerto sound library, update it (version 1.2.0) to get the new sounds.
• Concerto is now listed under Synths. The Orchestral category is gone.

Projects for scripts and AI agents

• .arkane project files are now saved indented, so they're readable and easy to diff and edit by hand, with scripts, or with coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, …).
• New docs: PROJECT_FORMAT.md explains the format, and plugins.json lists every built-in plugin's parameters and presets.
• Projects written by hand load fine: missing fields get their defaults, out-of-range values are clamped, and broken references are dropped.
• Reload on outside edits: when the open project file changes on disk, ArkaneDAW reloads it automatically, or asks first if you have unsaved changes. Ctrl+Z undoes the reload.