jatinchowdhury18/newmixer

A unique and revolutionary audio mixing tool

NewMixer

An audio mixing tool that allows the user to visualize audio sources by their location in space rather than as channels on a mixing board. See a demo video here.

This is part of a class project for Music 256a at Standford University (CCRMA).

Installation

For Users: Download

• Download the latest release →
• Windows users can run the installer to set up NewMixer
• Mac users can download and run NewMixer.app (Note that you must change your settings to run programs from unidentified developers)

For Developers: Clone repository

# Clone the repository
$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/jatinchowdhury18/NewMixer.git

# Enter repository
$ cd NewMixer

# Initialize JUCE submodule
$ git submodule update --init --recursive

Instructions for building from scratch can be found here.

Getting Started: Mixing

Creating and opening sessions

• To create a new session, right-click and select "New Session"
• To open an existing session, right-click and select "Open Session"
  • Select a ".chow" file from your computer to open

Add tracks:

• Right-click and select "New Track"
• Select wav audio files from your file explorer
• N.B: All files in a session must be exactly the same length

Mixing Tracks

• Use the space bar to play/pause (All tracks are muted initially)
• Each circle represents a track, hover your mouse to see the track name, click to select
  • Move the track around the virtual space by dragging or using the arrow keys
  • Make the track louder/softer by using "ALT + click" and drag
  • Press "m" to mute/unmute, "s" to solo/unsolo
  • For more actions and keyboard shortcuts, right-click the track

Automation

• To record automation for a track, press "a"
• When a track is armed, a pink circle will appear around it, when it starts recording automation, the circle will turn red
• Automation will automatically stop recording at the end of the song, or when the song is paused
• To delete recorded automation, press "SHIFT + DEL"

Saving sessions

• To save your session, right-click and select "Save Session"
• If this is your first time saving your session, you will be asked to name your session and choose a save location.
  • The files for your tracks will be copied into a "Stems" folder

Developer Instructions

Building

• Navigate to "JUCE/extras/Projucer/Builds/"
• Build the Projucer using XCode (Mac), Visual Studio (Windows), or Makefile (Linux)
• From the Projucer, open NewMixer.jucer
• From the "File" menu, open "Global Paths..."
  • Set "Path To JUCE" to "...\NewMixer\JUCE"
  • Set "JUCE Modules" to "...\NewMixer\JUCE\modules"
  • Close "Global Paths" window
• Select "Save and open in IDE"
• Build NewMixer

Rules for collaboration

• Clone repository
• Create local develop branch
• After pushing changes to your develop branch, make a pull request against the remote develop branch
• Once your changes have been reviewed, and all checks are passing, your code can be merged into master

Thank you and enjoy!

newmixer's Issues

How did you enable device settings? Mine is allways disabled

Thanks

Audio graph (multi-track)

Master Track should take in array of tracks, and setup nodes for processing chain, etc

any update?

Hi,
I can't load this project on JUCE :) Do you think that it's possible to check this project again?
Thank you,
Jean

Audio player within track

Play audio from file

Save device settings

Hi,

NewMixer does not keep device settings stored in it's Settings.xml. So its needed to reconfigure at startup each time .

License

Hi,

I'd like to make NewMixer's binaries in open build server (actually, I did and it works), but there is a question about license. Regarding https://github.com/jatinchowdhury18/NewMixer/blob/master/Installer/NewMixer_License.txt it's custom proprietary license, so its not possible to put sources on 3rd-side build servers. Or we can discuss it? :)

Compilation on Linux.

Hi,

I could compile NewMixer under Linux. But it has to do some changes:

1. Fix SIMD call:

In file included from /home/kv/src/audio/NewMixer/JUCE/modules/juce_dsp/juce_dsp.h:245,
from ../../JuceLibraryCode/JuceHeader.h:25,
from ../../Source/Processors/ProcessorBase.h:4,
from ../../Source/Processors/TrackBase.h:4,
from ../../Source/Processors/TrackProcessor.h:4,
from ../../Source/Processors/TrackProcessor.cpp:1:
/home/kv/src/audio/NewMixer/JUCE/modules/juce_dsp/containers/juce_SIMDRegister.h: In instantiation of ‘struct juce::dsp::SIMDRegister’:
../../Source/Processors/TrackProcessor.cpp:82:97: required from here
/home/kv/src/audio/NewMixer/JUCE/modules/juce_dsp/containers/juce_SIMDRegister.h:86:11: error: invalid use of incomplete type ‘struct juce::dsp::SIMDNativeOps’
86 | using vSIMDType = typename NativeOps::vSIMDType;

by commenting template in juce_SIMDRegister_Impl.h

> // Extend some common used global functions to SIMDRegister types
> //template <typename Type>
> //inline dsp::SIMDRegister<Type> JUCE_VECTOR_CALLTYPE jmin (dsp::SIMDRegister<Type> a, dsp::SIMDRegister<Type> b) { return dsp::SIMDRegister<Type>::min (a, b); } 
> //template <typename Type>
> //inline dsp::SIMDRegister<Type> JUCE_VECTOR_CALLTYPE jmax (dsp::SIMDRegister<Type> a, dsp::SIMDRegister<Type> b) { return dsp::SIMDRegister<Type>::max (a, b); }

https://forum.juce.com/t/dsp-module-breaks-compilation-on-linux/27346

2. call expf and logf from global (it's not in std in gcc) in TrackMeter.cpp:

> //    float rmsFactor = 1.0f + std::expf (std::logf (track->getProcessor()->getRMSLevel()) / skewFactor);
> float rmsFactor = 1.0f + expf (logf (track->getProcessor()->getRMSLevel()) / skewFactor);

3. Comment out in Track.h:
   // void mouseDoubleClick (const MouseEvent& e) override;

because it gives linking error.

Forking/"fixing"/pull requesting is not problem. But I'm not programmer yet, so I prefer You decide how to resolves these issues better.

Processing I/O

Setup processing chain within track component, that is then connected by audio graph master component