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Downloads

File What it holds
…-macos-universal.tar.gz Auris Studio.app and the auris command line tool — Apple Silicon and Intel in one binary
…-windows-x86_64.zip auris-studio.exe and auris.exe
…-linux-x86_64.tar.gz the auris command line tool only

None of it is code-signed. macOS will refuse the first launch and say the developer
cannot be verified: open it from the right-click menu once, or run
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "Auris Studio.app". Windows SmartScreen wants
More info → Run anyway.

Auris Studio is at 0.x, where nothing is stable: the project format, the configuration
files and every public API may change in any release, with no migration.

The first release. What is here works end to end: write notes, play them through a built-in
instrument, shape them with effects, and render the result to a WAV file.

The window

  • An arrangement of instrument and audio tracks, with a bar ruler, a cycle region and a playhead
    that scrolls itself into view while the transport rolls.
  • A piano roll with two tools — pointer and velocity — a mixer with per-track strips and a
    master bus, an inspector, and a library that browses instruments, effects and SoundFonts as a
    tree.
  • Every panel is docked to the left, the right or the bottom, and can be moved between them from
    its icon in the status bar. Where you leave them is where they are next launch.
  • A command palette, a right-click menu on every component, and a menu bar — drawn by the
    application on Windows and Linux, the system's own on macOS. Both answer to the keyboard.
  • Colour schemes, chosen in the settings window and checked for contrast by a test.
  • English and Japanese throughout, following the system locale unless told otherwise.

Sound

  • Chiptune, two-operator FM and noise-drum instruments, all band-limited where it matters.
  • Effects: gain, pan, delay, reverb, chorus, distortion, compressor, limiter and a parametric
    equalizer with a spectrum analyser.
  • SoundFont playback: .sf2 files are imported once and referenced by font, bank and patch, so a
    project stays small and opens playing the same sound.
  • A realtime engine on cpal with a bounded command channel, plugin latency compensation, effect
    tails summed along the chain, and pre-built graphs handed over so nothing is dropped on the
    audio thread.
  • Audio import through Symphonia, resampled when the device disagrees with the project.

Writing music

  • A harmony lane holding a key and a chord progression, editable on the timeline and audible by
    pressing or sweeping it.
  • A structure lane naming the song's sections.
  • Clips that write themselves from a preset and the harmony under them, and remember the recipe
    so they can be written again after the chords change.
  • Whole-song composition from a text specification, from the desktop application or the command
    line.

Files

  • A project is a folder holding <name>.auris and an Audio/ directory. Imported audio is
    copied in; assets are found again by name and size when they move, and a missing one costs that
    track's sound rather than the whole document.
  • Configuration lives in ~/.config/auris-studio/ on every platform, in four small JSON files a
    dotfiles repository can carry.
  • WAV export at 16-bit, 24-bit or 32-bit float, for the whole project or for the cycle region.

Frontends

  • auris-studio, the desktop application, on macOS and Windows.
  • auris, the command line tool, on macOS, Windows and Linux.
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