MD Synth DAW Files

A hardware-aware DAW for the Sega Mega Drive.

21 changes since v0.4.0.

Downloads

A portable copy keeps its settings, projects and banks in a userdata folder beside the executable, so it can live on a memory stick and leaves nothing behind. An installed copy keeps them under your documents. Both are the same application, and the updater offers whichever kind you already have.

Checking a download

SHA256SUMS lists every file, and each file has a .sigstore bundle beside it, SHA256SUMS included. The signature is what proves a download came from this repository: a checksum on its own only proves the file matches whichever list you read it from.

:::sh
sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing

cosign verify-blob --bundle SHA256SUMS.sigstore \
  --certificate-identity-regexp '^https://github.com/MeguminBOT/md-synth-daw/' \
  --certificate-oidc-issuer https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com \
  SHA256SUMS

The same workflow records build provenance, which the GitHub CLI reads:

:::sh
gh attestation verify mdd-0.5.0-windows-x86_64-portable.zip --repo MeguminBOT/md-synth-daw

What changed

The song model (1)

• A project carries a title, artist, composer, album, year, genre, track and comment

Playback and export (7)

• Bounce Stems are written by track or by channel
• Sequencer A tied note on a square carries on rather than starting over
• Sequencer A level lane holds from one note to the next
• Sequencer A fade in written from a note's start starts quiet
• Sequencer A note keys on with what the automation clips over it hold
• Sequencer A cut clip keys each note on with the lanes where the note sits
• Sequencer Back to back notes on one FM channel each attack

Editors and panels (7)

• Bar The transport bar switches the LFO on and sets its rate
• Bar Turning the wheel over the pattern picker steps through the patterns
• Editor The piano roll ties and unties notes
• Editor A lane's scale zooms and scrolls the values it shows
• Editor A clip opens its pattern at the bar where it sits
• Playlist A clip's name clears its menu corner and still shows on a small clip
• Playlist The clip menu renames the clip's pattern

The application (1)

• Session A new pattern takes the first number no other pattern has

Window, audio and system (2)

• System A second copy hands its file to the copy running and brings it forward
• System An environment variable moves the userdata folder, and the gate keeps its own

Building and packaging (1)

• An example project shows ways around the chips' limits

The repository (1)

• Bump version 0.5.0

Every commit: https://github.com/MeguminBOT/md-synth-daw/compare/v0.4.0...v0.5.0