Generant: a DAW for instruments and OSC

In progress. This article is being written — the summary on the front page is live, the full story lands here.

I wanted a DAW running on SuperSonic that I could use to build my own instruments, and I wanted to work more deeply with OSC. Generant is that workstation: a tracker sequencer, instruments and CV devices, and score output that doesn’t stop at audio.

The three pieces

• Generant — the workstation. Sequence notes, velocity, and parameter changes; arrange patterns into songs; build instruments from synthdefs with LFOs, envelopes, gates, scales, and effects.
• OSC Score Bridge — the Blender side. Note-ons, knob turns, envelope values, and arbitrary markers like /song/part1 become animation data — objects, lights, cameras, materials.
• Renoise OSC Sequencer — the same messages, written from Renoise patterns and automation.

Planned for this article

• Why I built a DAW instead of using one
• The system: tracker / instruments / OSC score output
• Screenshots — rack view, tracker view, a bake into Blender
• What’s next