devlog archive

Way more detail than you ever wanted to know about the development of the Anukari 3D Physics Synthesizer

May 2025

May 11: Apple performance progress

May 06: Had a super productive conversation with an Apple Metal engineer

May 06: An Appeal to Apple from Anukari

April 2025

Apr 10: Demo mode, first-launch flow, and more

March 2025

Mar 18: Preparing for the open (paid) Beta

February 2025

Feb 23: The AAX plugin is working

Feb 15: Getting more and more stable

Feb 08: More workarounds for Apple

Feb 01: CPack considered harmful

January 2025

Jan 15: Getting into the usability weeds

December 2024

Dec 15: Digging into usability

Dec 06: The chaos monkey lives

November 2024

Nov 29: Complications from custom 3D models

Nov 21: The new warp alignment optimizer

Nov 16: The CUDA port, and more optimization

Nov 09: Waste makes haste...?

Nov 05: Starting to micro-optimize, and 3D artwork

October 2024

Oct 30: Improving DAW compatibility

Oct 25: Weird Filament bug on Metal backend

Oct 23: Lions, tigers, and high-DPI, oh my

Oct 18: Reducing 3D renderer loading time

Oct 17: Configurable environment/skybox

Oct 13: 3D renderer quality settings menu

Oct 12: 3D renderer native window bugs

Oct 09: Bug in Google Filament's Vulkan code

Oct 05: First hacked-together build with new renderer

Oct 04: Ubershaders vs just-in-time compilation

Oct 03: New animations based on physics

Oct 01: New 3D renderer parity with old renderer

September 2024

Sep 30: Fixing a crash in Ableton with WM_DESTROY

Sep 29: Skybox and irradiance map working

Sep 27: Instanced .glb assets in new renderer

Sep 26: Rendering on MacOS in Metal

Sep 25: 3D rendering in a hovering native window

Sep 25: Exploring options for using Google Filament

Sep 23: 3D graphics / GPU audio interference?

Sep 05: Anukari audio computed on GPU with Metal

Sep 05: Porting audio GPU code to Apple Metal

August 2024

Aug 30: Performance state of the union (bad on MacOS)

Aug 25: New optimization: mixing mics on GPU

Aug 23: First pre-alpha installers out

Aug 20: Working through MacOS bugs for pre-alpha

Aug 17: Working windows installer

Aug 16: Writing bad crypto code

Aug 15: Ephemeral downloads and license keys

Aug 12: This devlog is on the website now

Aug 08: Building a blog engine (for some reason)

Aug 07: My TypeScript honeymoon period is over

Aug 05: Enjoying bugs in next.js

Aug 03: License validation apis

July 2024

Jul 24: Prepping website for pre-alpha

Jul 20: It's 2024 and implementing web auth still sucks

Jul 19: Don't ever use boost::numeric::interval

Jul 18: Rabbit holes with GUI animations

Jul 17: MIDI note off modulation

Jul 16: Polishing up MPE/polyphony support

Jul 14: Giving up on Python for web

Jul 13: Giving up on Google Cloud

Jul 12: MPE works on my ROLI seaboard!

Jul 11: MPE support seemingly complete

Jul 10: Python, FastAPI, and NiceGUI for webapp

Jul 09: Second read-through of the MPE spec

Jul 05: Breaking ground on MPE support

Jul 04: Voice instancing is amazing

Jul 04: Storing per-instance data

Jul 01: Instanced instruments on the GPU

June 2024

Jun 25: Digitally signing binaries

Jun 16: Full usability on MacOS

Jun 15: FFT-based audio clip comparison for golden tests

Jun 14: Cleaning up hacks from MacOS support

Jun 14: Restructuring GUI unit tests

Jun 12: Getting tests passing on MacOS

Jun 10: Anukari runs on MacOS now

May 2024

May 29: Voice instancing: it's alive!

May 28: New memory layout for voice instancing

May 28: Starting work on instanced voice mode

May 24: Bug with links that link to other links

May 20: On-screen tuner

May 15: Fuzz tests for copying and pasting

May 15: Where to paste after copy?

May 11: Bad memory access on the GPU: pain

May 10: Envelope followers working

May 07: Golden tests for DAW automation

May 04: Support for DAW automation

May 01: Modulator link editing edge cases

April 2024

Apr 26: Making modulator links editable

Apr 23: MIDI note follower and FM

Apr 20: Fixed 7 bugs today

Apr 19: Idea: polyphony using time dilation?

Apr 17: Foundational work for MPE support

Apr 15: Support for all MIDI messages

Apr 11: Spaghetti reduction for entity sub-types in GUI

Apr 10: Starting work for full MIDI support

Apr 05: Compile latency woes

Apr 04: Refactoring 15k lines of code

March 2024

Mar 29: Fixing a crash in JUCE

Mar 29: Octave number for middle C not standardized?

Mar 27: LFO retriggering working

Mar 26: Fractal complexity in MIDI note picker

Mar 26: Generalized MIDI receiver interface

Mar 19: Creating a general MIDI note picker

Mar 18: Golden tests already preventing bugs

Mar 16: Tempo-synced LFO modulators

Mar 14: GPU memory corruption is fun

Mar 12: A bug with non-deterministic GPU PRNG seed

Mar 08: Exhaustive golden test coverage

Mar 06: Golden testing with audio clips

Mar 05: Unit tests for the Selection class

Mar 02: Catching tons of bugs with unit tests

February 2024

Feb 29: Auditing for where more unit tests needed

Feb 27: Unit tests for precision slider finally

Feb 24: Master out and GPU usage meters

Feb 22: Better look & feel, discovered Filament

Feb 22: Writing my own OpenCL obfuscator :(

Feb 21: A bug with MIDI note off

Feb 17: Knocking out boring work

Feb 13: Async loading for 3D assets

Feb 13: Getting float formatting right is hard

Feb 08: Many-value sliders up and running

Feb 08: Researching webapp technology

Feb 06: Designing "many-value sliders"

Feb 05: Fun with JUCE mouse events

Feb 03: Way better slider inputs

January 2024

Jan 30: Undo for dials

Jan 30: Fixing annoying UX bugs

Jan 26: Non-blocking logging finished

Jan 26: Logging replaced, I love macros

Jan 25: Non-blocking logging from the audio thread

Jan 19: Sticky delay line buffer indices

Jan 19: Bugs, GPUs, DMA, and pinned memory

Jan 18: A bug in delay line ring buffers

Jan 16: Adding delay lines

Jan 01: [The Bug] Wasn't actually a bug in Anukari

December 2023

Dec 31: [The Bug] Reality doesn't make sense

Dec 30: [The Bug] No repro, way more tests

Dec 29: A weird audio distortion bug

Dec 22: Mic compression on GPU

Dec 21: Modulating object rotation

Dec 21: Fixing my GPU PRNG implementation for S&H

Dec 19: Working through modulation edge cases

Dec 17: UX for GPU memory limits

Dec 16: Fuzz testing random presets

Dec 14: An optimization via GPU warp alignment

Dec 14: Modulation can now affect 3D visuals

Dec 12: FM oscillators/LFOs by adding GPU state

Dec 05: First GPU implementation for LFOs

Dec 04: GPU code working for modulated springs

Dec 01: GUI done for modulators-to-springs

Dec 01: Recursive modulators, and fuzz testing

November 2023

Nov 28: Making link parameters modulatable

Nov 27: 3D visuals for modulators

Nov 15: Finally done giving my ADC23 talk

Nov 07: Linkable interface, can modulators be recursive?

October 2023

Oct 31: Adding modulation, working on ADC23 slides

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