Cordex v0.3.0

Released 2026-09-20

Teleport: send a signal across the canvas without a cord
Machine: drum kit with a pad grid, up to 64 pads, samples dropped straight onto a pad
Roller: plays one slot of a sample table, addressed by index
Trigger and a refreshed Trig
Clipper, with a transfer curve display and a knee control
Declick
Custom titlebar with a document menu, rename, and a live meter
Theme picker
Pattern editor for tracker sequences
Arrangement matrix in place of the order strip: minimap, track reorder, cell menus, keyboard editing
Effect help: command names, explanations, a reference sheet and a picker
Icon catalogue, 1500+ icons, searchable, with pattern icons
Canvas grid with lattice snapping
Panel rotation, and display sections on panels
New cord routing, with a tuning page in the overlay
Configurable shadows in UI, with a tuning page in the overlay
Adaptive shadow quality under load, off by default
Auto-connect between modules
Port tooltips
Per-cord attenuators on modulation inputs
Multi-source input ports: up to eight cords on Phasor and Butterworth LPF modulation inputs
Shift-drop appends a cord instead of replacing it
Solo lanes and a 48-row mode in the tracker sequencer
Gather, explode and implode operations for rearranging an imported patch
Sample tables saved into project files
--render writes a patch to WAV, --app-dir picks the working directory

IT: new-note actions, duplicate check, sustain loops, auto-vibrato, fadeout timing, global volume, random pan, pitch-pan separation
XM: instrument vibrato, ping-pong loops, fine portamento, envelope loops, fadeout timing, volume ramping
MOD and S3M: channel panning, finetune, sample swap under a running note
Portamento frequency tables and per-format memory
Volume slides, global volume slides, volume column commands
Pattern delay, pattern loop, shuffle timing
Arpeggio parameter recall, note cut, extended command numbering
Key-off releases a note instead of cutting it; voice steal takes the quietest lane
Panning reaches the output at full stereo width
Keymapped instrument level, pitch rounding and panning
Songs above 32 tracks lost the overflow
Import crashed on malformed sample loops and short XM headers
Cmd+Q dropped unsaved work on macOS
Saved patches crashed on load; a failed load now reports the error
Autosave switched off kept saving
Rendering was non-deterministic and carried a DC offset from recycled sockets

Theme picker ships 26 palettes
App opens on Aura instead of a random theme
Import defaults to the instrument axis instead of the channel axis
Import merges channels that share instruments, splits rows whose envelopes disagree
Import uses teleports instead of long cords
Keymapped instruments import the whole keyboard map; mixed rows import as one Roller
Tracker channel panning law is linear
Master high-pass is a setting
Retriggered samples keep their attack
Voice steal in a tracker channel cuts instead of ramping; the anti-click ramp scales with sample rate
Clock resets to zero on stop
Phasor and Butterworth LPF depth knobs replaced by per-cord attenuators
Ports animate from their current position when a cord changes
Key hints on the effect sheet use the menu keycap
No face lighter than regular in menus
Moved to cordex.audio: curl -fsSL https://cordex.audio/install.sh | bash

Install this release

On macOS or Linux, run:

curl -fsSL https://cordex.audio/install.sh | bash -s 0.3.0