Roadmap

Here is a roadmap of planned features in Tritonus. If you need features earlier, mail me. On the other hand, there is no guarantee.

(*) indicates features that are already present in the development version.

Version

Audio

Midi

General

est. Release date

0.2
(stable)

  • reading and writing of .au, .aiff and .wav files
  • basic playback and recording
  • Alaw and mu-law converter
  • MP3 decoder (pure-Java)
  • reading of MIDI files
  • basic Sequencer
  • basic hardware Synthesizer support
  • external MIDI I/O
  • Java Sound 1.0 API

2000/04/10

0.3
(unstable)

This is a development branch. Expect it to accumulate the features planned for the following stable version.

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0.4
(stable)

  • MP3 encoder (*)
  • linear (PCM2PCM) converter(*)
  • sampling rate converter
  • internal floating point streaming architecture (*/2)
  • ALSA support (allows hardware mixing) (*)
  • smart selection of converters
  • support for multiple soundcards (*)
  • Mixer details
  • Line details
Perhaps:
  • full Clip support
  • Volume and balance/pan controls
  • writing of MIDI files (*)
  • handling of Sysex messages
  • Sequencer capturing
  • Sequencer and MIDI I/O on Mac and Windows95/98
  • Software Synthesizer (Linux only) (*)
  • Sun-compatible Service Provider mechanism (*)
  • Support for GNU/Linux ppc (*)
  • Split packages for easier distribution of plug-ins

2000/09/??

0.5
(unstable)

This is a development branch. Expect it to accumulate the features planned for the following stable version.

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0.6
(stable)

  • Ports (interface to system mixer)
  • GSM codec (*)
  • Support for multi-channel soundcards
  • 24 bit/96 kHz throughout the implementation (*/2)
  • Support for aRts
  • MPEG-4 structured audio
  • full hardware Synthesizer support
  • Soundbank handling
  • ANT build tool and install program

2000/12/??

later

  • digital reading from CD
  • AAC decoder and encoder
  • other codecs
  • off-line Mixer

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  • applet support
  • Windows port

???


Last modified: Fri Jan 31 09:07:25 CET 2003