Wavey is a simple web-based digital audio workstation (DAW), currently in alpha.

Features

• Drag and drop audio files or record from a microphone*
• Always saved locally, including persistent undo/redo with the selection state; saves while you're recording
• Several themes, including light and dark elementary OS themes via elementary.css, and some retro themes
• Fully scalable graphics, from the icons to the waveforms
• Export the document or a selected range as WAV or MP3
• Can work completely offline, with sw-precache

*Audio recording quality may or may not match native applications in a given browser. Record redundantly with another application if it matters to you.

Future Features

• Note how the bar with beat markings is a track. It would become a metronome when unmuted. It's a simplification of the concepts over DAWs which traditionally have a separate metronome. There will still need to be a way to specify the BPM, and it would also be good to have BPM detection and variable BPM support (hopefully tying into a general automation system).

• Tracks can be pinned to the top, which should easy the pain when you have many tracks with audio clips you want to line up with some main audio track(s). (This is only partially implemented. Currently pinned tracks don't actually stay at the top when scrolling down.)

• You will be able to "precord" up to five minutes as long as precording has been enabled.

• MIDI is a possibility. It might involve an expanded view to edit the notes, but it would be inline in the track.

• Effects! I'm holding off on adding gain and panning because I think if the effects UI is good enough, they should be able to simply be effects, and I don't want to just immitate the status quo UI and end up with something that's "good enough" but not as good as it could be. They (or just gain) may warrant some special treatment such as being added by default to the effects chain, but they probably shouldn't be separate from it. After all they are effects and you'll want to be able to automate them just the same.

• Plugins

• Desktop apps; app embedding

• Interoperability with Audacity (exporting/importing project files)

• Web Intents or similar, possibly Ballista

• Internationalization

TODO

• Fix pasting across non-consecutive tracks
• Mouse-relative zooming (preferably performant and smoothly animated)
• Storage management (handle running out of storage, handle multiple editors loaded for the same document, and allow data purging)
• Improve accessibility

Contributing

Contributions and criticism welcome. Open up an issue to discuss features, problems, or improvements!

This project is built with CoffeeScript, React, and ReactScript.

Fork and clone the repository and then with Node.js, open up a command line and enter npm install and npm run dev

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Isaiah Odhner

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