Hey friends,

Over the course of the past semester, I’ve been working with a team from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) on a tool for applying spatially positioned audio effects to first order ambisonic sound files. Our project, foafx, is the result of months of creative exploration and prototyping that proved to be a wonderful opportunity to leverage Elementary’s strengths.

Our work is available on GitHub at https://github.com/risdsound/foafx, and offers an exciting example of working with multi-channel audio in Elementary as well as ambisonic encoding and decoding. The tool itself is available on the command line from npm, and is documented thoroughly on our GitHub Readme:

npm install -g foafx
foafx --help

Hey dear reader,

It’s been nearly two months since our last newsletter update, and two months is plenty of time to cover a lot of ground. So buckle up, because we’ve got a lot to share!

First, the short version:

Elementary v1.0.0 is here!

Today we’re thrilled to share that Elementary v1.0 is finally available. This change comes after several months of important changes to the core algorithm and user-facing API, but also after many more months of engagement from the wonderful Elementary Audio community helping Elementary settle into a shape that we have full confidence will be both stable and flexible for the long run.

There’s so much to share about what this change entails, but rather than trying to cover each point here, we’ll just focus on some of the highlights. To catch the complete list, check out our newly updated documentation pages and in particular the changelog here.

TypeScript Support

It’s been almost two months since our last community roundup, which means we’re overdue for another round-up of what’s been happening!

Creating an EQ using Elementary and React.js

https://blog.stijn-kuijper.me/2022/01/07/elementary-blog-post/

Stijn Kuijper wrote a brilliant blog post detailing the setup and process of writing an EQ plugin using Elementary. Well worth a read if you’ve been curious about the Elementary Plugin Dev Kit but have not yet given it a try.

We’re kicking off our brand new newsletter with an announcement of Elementary v0.11.0 alongside a new, simplified pricing and licensing model, then following up with a brief look at what’s coming next.

Elementary v0.11.0

The highlight of the v0.11.0 release is the introduction of the FFT processor node el.fft. With the same degree of simplicity and flexibility that you’re used to with the other analysis nodes (el.meter, el.scope, etc) you can now tap any part of your signal chain for real-time frequency domain processing and analysis.