manaCompiler

manaCompiler is a modular audio/music environment that aspires to establish a ground between traditional digital audio workstations and visual DSP programming languages in extremely accessible way , focusing only in fast and intuitive creative process. Play and mix audio loops , build your own synthesizers or sample-based instruments , combine different sequencer types together like nobody has ever dared to imagine , with incredible ease . Render the output to WAV or route individual audio channels to external mixer or DAW and link multiple manaCompiler instances with network audio . So far 59 different object types provide functionality to create and process multichannel audio and simulate analog control signals across audio/midi interfaces and TCP/IP network .

Environment

• So far 50 object types from simple operators to complete sequencers.
• Objects can send three types of signal: Audio, Sync and Trigger.
• Any object can be connected to any other object.
• Connection types are auto-resolved between object types.
• Groups of objects can be saved to macros and loaded back between projects.
• No (software) limit on object amount.
• State machine for sequencing parameter/data scenes.
• Complete project saving and loading with all data and parameter states.

Interface

• OpenGL rendered 2.5D interface.
• Supporting resolutions up to 8K @ 60Hz.
• Rapid intuitive navigation and operation with or without keyboard shortcuts.
• (almost) VR ready.
• Internal manual with thoroughly explained pictures.
• Customizable color themes as text files.

Sound

• Engine sample rate from 22 KHz to 192 KHz
• Seamless object operation on runtime.
• Anti-aliased oscillators.
• Control signals at audio rate, with ultra precise effect.
• High quality stereo sample interpolation.
• Buffered online stereo hard disk recorder.
• Stereo audio auto-slicing, pitch-analysis and pitch shifting.
• OPUS-compressed real-time network audio.

Control

• Traditional polyphonic piano roll editor/sequencer.
• Microtonal support for all synthesis and sample playing.
• Traditional automation editor/sequencer.
• Arithmetic and logic objects to process control signals.
• Algorithmic and stockhastic sequencers.
• Physics simulation sequencer.
• Virtual keyboard and sheet note visualizer.

I/O

• Audio through DirectSound, WASAPI or ASIO in Windows 10.
• Native CoreAudio for macOS.
• Up to 32 individual input and output audio channels.
• Reads WAV, AIFF and MP3 audio files.
• MIDI in/out with support for multiple simultaneous devices.
• Writes 32-bit WAV files with online render.
• Reads and writes Scala (.SCL) tuning files.
• TCP/IP real-time network audio.