NIGHTSHAPE

Build Log

• Real-time signal path built as in-process AudioUnits rather than stock effects. Stereo-linked peak-envelope compressor with hard-knee curve, attack and release ballistics, true bypass and truthful gain-reduction metering. Bit decimator, plate reverb, gate, chorus, five-band EQ, master safety limiter.
• Reorderable FX rack. Five serial inserts per track that you drag into order, with reverb kept on a fixed send and return outside the insert lane. Chain order is saved per track and for the master bus.
• Drum synthesizer with a full parameter system, factory and user preset stores, nested browser, and preset import and export.
• Procedural groove generator. It works out what each row is for, picks a rhythmic archetype, lays down kick and snare, then writes hats and percussion that react to what those two did. Every step carries its own MIDI velocity.
• Performance capture: arm, count in, then record taps live against a quantizer, with a prediction engine and ripple feedback on the pads.
• Import pipeline that listens to a track and labels the drum hits in it (kick, snare, clap, tom, rim, closed and open hat) using decay time, spectral centroid, zero-crossing rate and low-band energy. The confidence score drops when two labels score close together or the transient is weak, so a bad guess reports itself as a bad guess.
• Offline bounce on a dedicated manual-render graph isolated from the live engine, rendering an immutable project snapshot through production FX to PCM or AAC.
• Sample-accurate transport driving an 8-lane arrangement timeline. Paint-to-place blocks, edge-drag looping, step, beat and bar snap, zoom, isolated undo stack.
• Project files bundle any custom presets they depend on, so a project still renders correctly when it is opened on a different device.
• Fixed a silent-output bug where the engine started before the Bluetooth route had settled. It only ever appeared on hardware.
• XCTest coverage on transport timing, production-graph parity, FX signal path, limiter behavior and offline render output.