[!NOTE]
ArtCraft is a community of artists from all walks of life. Painters, photographers,
filmmakers, illustrators, designers, animators, hobbyists, and people who picked up a pencil
last week. If you make things, you're one of us. Come say hi on Discord.
What it does
SoundCraft follows the workflow audio engineers already know: an Edit window for arranging and
editing, a Mix window for balancing, edit modes, tools, playlists, memory locations, AudioSuite
processing and the rest. If you've spent years in that workflow, your hands should already know
where things are.
Feature tour
- Editing: Shuffle, Slip, Spot and Grid modes; Smart, Selector, Grabber, Trim, Pencil, Zoom and
Scrubber tools; cut, copy, paste, duplicate, repeat, shift, insert silence, separate (at
selection, on grid, at transients), heal, consolidate, strip silence, nudge; fades and
crossfades in five shapes, drawn straight from the clip corners; playlists with comping lanes;
clip gain lines; edit groups; single-key Commands Focus shortcuts; trackpad scrolling that
follows your fingers and pinch-to-zoom around the pointer; undo for everything.
- Mixing: fader and pan with automation, pre/post sends, busses, aux inputs, master faders,
VCA masters, routing folders, solo modes, mute and solo groups, phase invert and trim, clip
effects, and automatic plugin delay compensation.
- Automation: volume, pan, mute, send and every plugin parameter; Write, Touch, Latch and
Trim passes recorded live from the faders; thin, glide, coalesce and convert to clip gain.
- Plugins: 7-band and 1-band EQ, compressor/limiter, expander/gate, de-esser, maximizer,
channel strip, room and plate reverbs, mod delay, auto pan, chorus, flanger, phaser, ring
modulator, saturator, lo-fi, rectifier, subharmonic, pitch shifter, time shift, gain, trim,
invert, DC removal, signal generator, dither, a subtractive synth, a drum synth and a sampler
(plays any WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3 or OGG across the keyboard), all original. CLAP plugins
load too. Any processor runs offline as AudioSuite, and user presets save per plugin.
- MIDI: instrument and MIDI tracks, a piano-roll MIDI editor with a velocity lane, an event
list, a score view, step input, quantize, transpose, real-time properties, Standard MIDI Files,
and Audio-to-MIDI from a sung or played melody.
- Recording: punch in on a selection or on the fly, pre/post-roll, loop recording with a
playlist per take, input monitoring through the full channel strip, and autosave with recovery.
- Time and tempo: Bars|Beats, Min:Secs, Timecode (every rate, drop-frame included),
Feet+Frames and Samples; tempo and meter maps with a tempo editor; linear, parabolic and
S-curve tempo ramps; key signatures and detected chords; Beat Analysis and Identify Beat;
pitch-preserving Elastic Audio warping.
- Audio files: WAV/BWF/RF64, AIFF/AIFC and FLAC in and out; MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, ALAC, CAF
and the audio of MP4/MOV movies in. Any sample rate and bit depth.
- Bounce: mix or stems to WAV, AIFF or FLAC at 16/24/32-bit float with optional dither and
normalisation, reporting peak, true peak and integrated loudness (LUFS).
- Fast: a parallel mix engine, copy-on-write undo, and a UI that holds 120 frames per second
with seventy-odd tracks playing.
Getting started
Download a build from the releases page, or build
from source with Rust 1.95 or later:
git clone https://github.com/storytold/soundcraft
cd soundcraft
cargo run --release -p soundcraft -- --demo # opens the demo song
Linux needs the ALSA headers (libasound2-dev on Debian/Ubuntu, alsa-lib-devel on Fedora).
The web build:
cd apps/soundcraft-web && trunk serve --release # then open http://127.0.0.1:8080
Useful shortcuts: Space play/stop, ⌘= Mix/Edit,
F1–F4 edit modes, F5–F10 tools, ⌘E
separate, ⌘D duplicate, Enter new marker, ⌘⇧N
new tracks. Setup › Keyboard Shortcuts lists them all.
In New Tracks, each row has its own count, format, type, Samples/Ticks timebase and name.
Use + to add a row below or − to remove it; Create makes all rows in order, with one
Undo step (up to 128 tracks per creation). The last row stays available. The dropdown widths
fit their longest option and remain fixed when the selection changes.
On macOS, ⌘←/→ changes the active row's format, ⌘↑/↓ its type (also with ⌃),
and ⌥⌘↑/↓ its timebase. ⇧⌃⌘↓/↑ adds/removes the active row, also with ⌥;
⇧⌘↓/↑ works too. Windows/Linux use Ctrl for ⌘. The active row follows the
field you click. A new row starts with its count focused and selected; Enter creates and Escape cancels.
Logs
The desktop app writes its log records to standard error and to logs/soundcraft.log in the
settings directory, beside ui.json, Autosave/ and Presets/ (Linux ~/.config/soundcraft/logs/,
or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/soundcraft/logs/; macOS ~/Library/Application Support/SoundCraft/logs/;
Windows %APPDATA%\SoundCraft\logs\). A start from a desktop menu or the Dock has no terminal, so
this file is what to attach to a bug report: the engine's panic report, audio devices that failed to
open or broke, plugins that refused their stored state, CLAP plugins' own messages and files that
failed to open land there. Each launch moves the previous log to soundcraft.1.log (and that one to
soundcraft.2.log), so the log of a run that crashed survives the next start. The file stops
growing at 16 MiB. --version writes no file, and runs with SOUNDCRAFT_NO_PREFS log to standard
error only.
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