Tracktion Engine: C++ engine for sequence-based audio applications, README overview
The README presents Tracktion Engine as a C++ engine for building sequencers, players and DAWs.
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Source: https://github.com/tracktion/tracktion_engine
What it supplies: The README presents Tracktion Engine as a C++ engine for building sequencers, players and DAWs.
Useful for: - Build a DAW or sequencer on a ready data model.
- Embed the engine in a plugin that syncs to the host timeline.
First action: - Clone with submodules to get JUCE.
- Generate the examples with the tests scripts and open DemoRunner.
Prerequisites and limits: C++20 on macOS, Windows, Linux, Raspberry Pi, iOS or Android.
- GPL terms apply unless you hold a commercial licence.
- Enterprise licences may not include v3.
Source-documented: GPL or a paid commercial licence with several tiers; a JUCE licence is separate and needed for distributed products.
Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on introduction, platforms, getting started, examples and licence README text; other sections were not read in full. Nothing was installed or run.
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