DAWr (pronounced "door") is an audio playground for people who like to write Rust code. It has some features of a simple DAW, including a build-in wavetable synthesizer, sampler, and basic audio effects. However, it's still missing a lot: there's no equalizer, the sampler only works in one-shot mode, and more. I don't plan on adding new features for the time being, but I'd appreciate suggestions and pull requests!
The feature set is limited, but it's enough to make a shitty future bass drop section in Rust! You can find code for this in src/bin/demotrack.rs. Here's what it sounds like:
TODO: export to wav and upload to soundcloud
WARNING: This library doesn't have any unit tests! There are probably bugs!
In this library, devices are things that emit a signal, which can either be mono
or stereo. Stereo is usually audio, and mono is usually some kind of control
parameter. There are two important traits, MonoEmitter and StereoEmitter for
devices which output mono or stereo respectively. There is also an EventSource
type representing a collection of events that occur at specific moments in time
(e.g. NoteOn(frequency) and NoteOff). The philosophy is that each device
should do one simple thing well, and then more powerful devices can be created
by chaining simpler ones.
New devices are constructed by providing references to all of their input
devices and references to all of the event sources they need to listen to. For
example, to build the MonoSynth device, it needs to be provided references to
an Oscillator (a MonoEmitter which tells it what its current phase in the
wave is), another MonoEmitter to tell it which wave of the wavetable is
selected at the current moment in time, and another MonoEmitter specifying the
amplitude envelope. In order to get notes to play, the amp envelope device will
listen to an EventSource<NoteEvent> and output a non-zero amplitude value
during the notes. We use Rust's Rc pointers extensively, so multiple devices
can use the same device as input.
Here is a list of all the built-in devices:
ConstSignal: Outputs a constant-valued mono signal.Envelope: Listens for NoteOn events and outputs 0.0 when there are no notes
playing and 1.0 while a note is playing.Oscillator: For use with MonoSynth, outputs the current phase of the wave
being played.MonoSynth: A monophonic wavetable synthesizer. You can create polyphony and
unison by using more than one instance along with the Pan effect and the
MonoSynth's Oscillator's detune parameter.
Sampler: Listens to an EventSource<SamplerEvent> and plays some audio
whenever it sees a Play or PlayAtSpeed(speed) event. In the latter case,
the playback is sped up by a factor of speed (by skipping over or
duplicating samples).
Mixer: Sums the outputs of multiple stereo inputs.Gain: Multiplies a stereo input signal with a mono input signal.Pan: Adjusts the balance of a stereo signal according to a mono input signal
in the range [-1, 1].MonoToStereo: Duplicates a mono signal to both channels of a stereo signal.StereoToMono: Sums the left and right channels of a stereo input to create
a mono signal.WaveShaperEffect: Applies waveshaping (e.g. hard clipping) to a stereo
signal.This library is missing some really important stuff, like:
MonoSynth.