Pro Wave 0.1.8

Pro Wave 0.1.8 is an early development build of a Logic Pro-style music production app (DAW) written in Rust: tracks, MIDI and audio regions, Piano Roll, Mixer, Library and a built-in synthesizer. Expect missing features and rough edges.

What's new in 0.1.8

All systems (Windows, macOS, Linux)

✅ Updates from inside Pro Wave: it looks for a newer release on GitHub when it starts (at most every 6 hours; Help > Check for Updates… checks at once, Check for Updates Automatically turns it off). A window shows what's new with Install update, Download page, Later and Skip this version. Nothing about you is sent.
✅ Installs the right package for how you installed it: the Windows zip, the macOS app, the AppImage, the Linux tarball, and for .deb and .rpm installs that very package, installed with the system's package manager (the system asks for your password). A Flatpak bundle is downloaded and checked, and the command to install it is shown.
✅ Closes, updates, opens again: Close and update closes Pro Wave, puts the new version in place and opens it. The download is checked against the SHA-256 that GitHub publishes for it, the old version is kept until the new one has been used once, and a failed update goes back to the old one and tells you why.
✅ MIDI recording: play a MIDI keyboard with Record and Play on: a red region grows on the instrument track and the notes appear in it as you play. When you stop it turns into a normal region (the track's colour), ends on a bar line and plays back. The recording is one Undo step.
✅ Sustain pedal: recorded with the notes, saved with the project and shown in the Event list as Control · Sustain. Every recording starts with where the pedal was.
✅ Take folders: record with the Cycle on and every pass is a take. Two or more takes make a take folder: a yellow bar with the name and a triangle, and under it the comp, side by side, with a line where one take gives way to the next. Open it to see a row for each take (latest on top), drag on a take to play it in that stretch, click to pick the whole take. Flatten Take Folder turns the comp into an ordinary region. Saved with the project.
✅ List Editors (Event list): the icon at the top right, View > Show List Editors or D. It lists the MIDI events of the selected region: position, note, velocity and length, with the notes of the other regions of the track in grey. A line marks the playhead and moves down the list at the speed of the notes while the song plays. Red while recording.
✅ Looks like Logic:

• Regions use Logic's own colours (measured from Logic Pro); a selected region is deeper with a yellow-green outline, and the ruler over it turns gold.
• The playhead is yellow, and red while recording; the control bar's display turns red while recording too.
• Piano Roll: notes coloured by velocity with a light edge, the region bar in the track's colour, a gold ruler, a Logic-style inspector header with the region and track, and the velocity lane drawn as dots with a line along each note.
• Track volume sliders are a dark pill with a thumb that stays inside; the level meter shows inside it. 0 dB sits two thirds up, as in Logic.
• Tracks that make no sound (muted, or another track is soloed) show their instruments, plug-ins, sends and meters in grey.
  ✅ The mixer keeps its size: the mixer panel can no longer be stretched, which only stretched the faders and meters. The Piano Roll can still be made taller.
  ✅ The demo project is shown once per version (the first time you open each new version) and then Pro Wave starts clean.
  ✅ Still light: about 330–420 ms to start and 120 MB of memory at rest (Windows), 15.5 MB program (the update check adds about 1 MB)

Still to do or test

❌ MIDI recording with real keyboards and the sustain pedal on other computers (checked by automated tests and a simulated recording only)
❌ The pedal is recorded and shown but the engine does not play it yet
❌ Take folders: editing notes needs Flatten first; making a take folder from existing regions, crossfades in the comp
❌ Event list: the Marker, Tempo and Signature tabs, event type filters and editing values
❌ The update install on a real Mac, a real Linux machine and with pkexec; only Windows was tried end to end
❌ Help > Language texts for the new messages checked by native speakers
❌ Region colours other than green, blue, yellow and purple are an estimate

Downloads

System	File	How to install
Windows 10/11 x64	prowave-windows-x86_64.zip	Unzip, run prowave.exe
macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel)	prowave-macos-universal.zip	Unzip, move Pro Wave.app to Applications (see below)
Debian, Ubuntu, Mint	prowave-studio_0.1.8_amd64.deb	sudo apt install ./prowave-studio_0.1.8_amd64.deb
Fedora, openSUSE, RHEL 9+	prowave-studio-0.1.8-1.x86_64.rpm	sudo dnf install ./prowave-studio-0.1.8-1.x86_64.rpm
Any Linux	Pro_Wave-0.1.8-x86_64.AppImage	chmod +x it and run it
Any Linux (sandboxed)	prowave-studio-0.1.8-x86_64.flatpak	flatpak install --user ./prowave-studio-0.1.8-x86_64.flatpak
Any Linux	prowave-linux-x86_64.tar.gz	Unpack, run ./prowave or ./install.sh

Linux packages need glibc 2.31 or newer (Ubuntu 20.04+, Debian 11+, Fedora 32+) and ALSA for sound. Details, required libraries and troubleshooting are in README.txt inside the tarball and in dist/README-linux.txt.

Not signed yet

None of the files is code signed, so your system will warn before running them:

• Windows: SmartScreen shows "Windows protected your PC". Choose More info, then Run anyway.
• Windows antivirus: Norton, Avast, AVG or McAfee may block the unsigned prowave.exe with "Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file". Add the Pro Wave folder to the antivirus's exclusions (Norton: Settings > Antivirus > Scans and Risks > Items to Exclude from Auto-Protect, Script Control, SONAR and Download Intelligence Detection).
• macOS: the app is ad-hoc signed but not notarized. The first time, right-click Pro Wave.app, choose Open, then Open again. If macOS says the app is damaged, run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Pro Wave.app".

How well tested is it?

Windows is the developer's daily platform. The Linux and macOS packages were built and install-checked on GitHub's build servers (Ubuntu and Fedora installs, and a 15-second launch under a virtual display on Linux), but have not yet been run on real Linux or macOS hardware. Please report what works and what doesn't.

Licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later.