Release Plan

Flocking Release Plan

0.1.0: Essential Unit Generators and Better WebAudio API Integration

• ✅ Sample-accurate change unit generator
• ✅ Envelope generator
• ✅ WebAudio API-based audio file decoding
• ✅ Support for MediaElementAudioSourceNode
• ✅ User-specifiable channel counts (rather than always using the max)
• ✅ Band-limited oscillators

0.2.0: Internal Refactoring

• Improved factoring of core components (merge in the graphical-ioc branch)
• Performance improvements
  • Functions + state for main sample processing loop
  • Optimize all hot paths
  • remove Infusion events and invokers from the main processing loop
• flock.define() for more easier declarative coding
• "Generous" JSON parser that supports unquoted keys and comments
• Expression parser that supports mathematical expressions, references to constants, etc. in JSON
• Migrate website to Digital Ocean
• ✅ Migrate mailing lists to the Fluid Project

0.3.0: Live coding support

• Refactor eight by eight into new "live data" environment
• Add the ability to load a JSON file containing a band/synthDef
• On the fly modification of synth parameters converted into change specifications using the ChangeApplier

0.4.0: Web Audio Islands

• SignalEvaluator
• JSON Specification for wiring up WebAudio nodes (sketches)
• Refactor graphical renderer to support wire specifications

0.5.0: Return of the Visual Playground

• Rewrite the visual playground and underlying synthDef/ugenDef parsing logic
• Graceful handling of parsing and rendering errors (to make writing code while visualizing it smoother)
• Optimize the rendering performance

0.6.0: Input Mapping

• Input mapper
• Finish MIDI support
• Out of the box support for OSC.js

0.7.0: Documentation

• Awesome getting started tutorial
• Documentation for all unit generators
• How to reuse and extend other synths

0.8.0: New Scheduler

• New scheduler API, including the ability to:
• create synths
• manipulate the environment (e.g. add synths, remove them)
• destroy old synths
• support for value expressions (e.g. ${synth.freq})
• Block-accurate, inline scheduler

0.9.0: Unit Generator Performance Optimization

• Functions + state for all unit generators

1.0.0: Collaborative Playground

• Support for file management
  • Create, delete, save
• New view for selecting and creating
• OAuth integration with Github
• Gist persistence manager
• PouchDB-based local caching, wrapped with a similar REST-style API to Gist’s