After a longer delay than I hoped I have the basic recording function now finished. I now have to do some cleanup before the next release.
The next big task will be to implement an ASIO driver based version of the audio engine. I will do this in parallel to other enhancements. There will be some releases without ASIO support build in, before this is working stable.
I enhanced the audio engine to deliver an input audio stream. As a first step I got a VU meter in the incoming data working today. Next step will be to store the received data in the active audio file.
A new version is online. Besides some bugfixes it adds a first draft of the online help. The help is still work in progress, but it might reveal some undiscovered features to you.
The next steps will be working on the help and adding a file format info and editing dialog.
In the last weeks the Acoustic Cutter project slowed down due to an increased workload in my regular job. Currently the situation improoves, so I hope that I can spend more time programming in the next weeks. Since the last version a long time passed, so even with the limited time a lot happended to the programm, as you can try with the new version.
I have now implemented basic clipboard functions like cut, copy and paste. But to make them perfekt is still a lot of work. There are many parameters like working with other applications, copying between files with different formats, working only on single channels of multichannel files…
I”m currently debugging to catch some bugs, then I can release the next version. The clipboard functions will then mature from release to release.
Today I started to write the help documents for Acoustic Cutter. There is already a big pile of topics to add, moving this task more into the future would lead to a painfull amount of writing.
I would currently like to postpone this and do more coding, but I know that would make it even harder in the future to add this, as I don”t like to write to big amounts at once.
After some work I now implemented the undo/redo mechanism. Linked to this task was setting the file edited mark, controlling file save, questions for save on close…; so this was a big work altogether. The only possible edit command currently is moving the markers, so this feature is not of much use. But having the basics now I can implement more editing. Adding Undo / redo later in the project would be far more pain.
I have done some testing and afterwards a lot of bugfixing. I worked mainly on the wav reading and writing code, there I eliminated some big errors and worked on improoved compatibility for read and write.
Today I have not worked much on the program, but created a new digilogue home page. The page presents the program and provides the download. This blog is now embedded and I will continue writing here.
I finished the first “player” implementation. Switching active playback document can be done with a combo box or by clicking the icon on the notebook tabs. In floating windows mode a small play toolbar is added additionally.
Display is also improoved: You can select the format of displayed times and values. The wave display has now some color parameters to personalise the view.
You can download the player with the link on the right side.