WaveController 0.0.4.0 Alpha

[0.0.4.0] - 2026-09-26 (Alpha 4)

Added

• Slide-out FX Inspector Sidebar:
  • Added an interactive, collapsible FX sidebar in the mixer matrix with smooth slide-left animation (Gtk.Revealer, 240ms) and click-away background dismissal.
  • Quick, real-time toggling and intensity adjustments (0–100% sliders) for built-in DSP effects (Equalizer, Compressor, Noise Gate, RNNoise, De-Esser, Limiter, Highpass) and hostable external LV2 plugins.
• Granular Stream Deck & IPC Effects Control:
  • Added get_fx_status command over the Unix IPC socket, returning comprehensive rack state: master bypass, active built-in DSP toggles, and hostable external LV2 plugins.
  • Added toggle_fx for channel master rack bypass, and toggle_channel_effect / set_channel_effect for targeted per-effect control over individual DSP and LV2 modules.
  • Decoupled rack bypass logic: enabling any individual effect automatically awakens the master channel rack if it was bypassed.
• Virtual System Output Device Exposure for App Channels:
  • Single application channels can now be exposed as independent virtual sound cards (Audio/Sink) directly to the OS, allowing granular routing in external applications without requiring a group channel.
• System Default Output Channel ("Desktop Audio"):
  • WaveController can now automatically provision and manage a dedicated "Desktop Audio" virtual sink channel for unassigned application audio streams.
  • Updated Settings and the Setup Wizard to select the default virtual channel directly.

Changed

• OOBE Setup Wizard Modernization:
  • Redesigned Page 5 to remove redundant primary device selectors in favor of automatic hardware mapping and unified system default toggles.
  • Added automatic provisioning of the Desktop Audio channel when enabling system defaults during initial setup.
• Settings View Layout:
  • Wrapped the Preferences page in an automatic Gtk.ScrolledWindow to prevent UI overflow or footer truncation on compact screen resolutions.

Fixed

• Wave Hardware Disconnect Shield:
  • Added _is_live_elgato_device checks to prevent physical Wave XLR and Wave microphones from falsely transitioning to "Disconnected" while PipeWire dynamically reloads or switches audio profiles.
• System Resume & Power Lifecycle Stability:
  • Fixed a native segmentation fault on Linux system resume by declaring explicit 64-bit ctypes function signatures for libusb_detach_kernel_driver and libusb_control_transfer.restype.
  • Offloaded USB hardware reconnection routines to worker threads to eliminate UI freezes on wake.
  • Added hardware suspend awareness to blackout LED rings during sleep and prevent dial event dropouts.
• Cross-Device Microphone Isolation:
  • Fixed an audio routing edge case to prevent physical microphones or auxiliary inputs from linking or leaking across unrelated audio devices.
• Capacitive Mute Hardware Sync:
  • Restored visual capacitive mute styling on MixHeaderCard when hardware mute states change via physical touch.