Anklang 0.1.0

Anklang 0.1.0

System Requirements

• Linux - Ubuntu 20.04 is needed to run the Anklang AppImage

Hardware Support

• Build and package a second sound engine binary with AVX & FMA optimizations.

Documentation

• Extended documentation in many places.
• Improved copyright listing of all source files involved.
• Provide user documentation as anklang-manual.pdf.
• Provide developer documentation as anklang-internals.pdf.

User Interface

• Improve UI responsiveness when handling async API calls.
• Support proper note selection sets in the piano roll.
• Introduced Undo/Redo stack for piano roll changes.
• Use batch processing to responsively handle thousands of notes.
• Support shortcut editing for piano roll functions.
• Added Cut/Copy/Paste to piano roll.
• Added play position indicator to piano roll.
• Tool selection in piano roils now works on hover.
• Notes moved in the piano roll now properly bounce against edges.
• Selection in the piano roll now supports SHIFT and CONTROL.
• Clips can now store notes with velocity=0.
• Migrated CSS processing to postcss.
• Fix file path handling for project load and save.
• Shortend nicknames are now auto-derived for external plugins.
• Support loading of command line files in Anklang.
• Add MIME support for starting Anklang for *.anklang files.

Synthesis

• Support single clip looping (very rudimentary), to be extended later.
• Add Gtk+-2 dynlib to provide a wrapper window for plugin UIs.
• Add support for CLAP-1.0.2 plugin loading and processing, the following
  CLAP extensions are currently implemented:
  LOG, GUI, TIMER_SUPPORT, THREAD_CHECK, AUDIO_PORTS, PARAMS, STATE,
  POSIX_FD_SUPPORT, AUDIO_PORTS_CONFIG, AUDIO_PORTS, NOTE_PORTS.

Internals

• Provide infrastructure for future piano roll scripting.
• Support lean UI component implementations with lit.js.
• Use ZCAM color model to design/saturate/etc colors of the UI.
• Updated various third party components.
• Use Electron-18.3.5 as basis for the UI.
• Use adaptive ZSTD compression for project storage.
• Use fast ZSTD compression for binary snapshots in Undo/Redo steps.
• Support sound engine blocks up to 2k.
• Adjust block sizes to reduce PulseAudio overhead.
• Keys matching in ASE_DEBUG is now case insensitive.
• Anklang can now be started with '--dev' to force open DevTools.

Other

• License clarification, the project uses MPL-2.0.
• Improved reproducible dockerized builds.
• Fixed dependencies of the Debian packages. #3