Anukari 1.0 is out. Reflections on three years of full-time work, from leaving Google and a broken shoulder to first sound and full polyphony.
Evan Mezeske
Jun 2026
With code signing done and the macOS port shelved for now, I'm back on voice-instanced physics, running parallel instrument copies in OpenCL.
Jul 2024
Wrestling with code signing bureaucracy, from Apple Developer verification and D-U-N-S numbers to picking a Sectigo certificate for Windows binaries.
Jun 2024
Anukari's standalone build is now fully usable on MacOS, with the GUI, MIDI input, audio output, and hotkeys working after a morning of small bug fixes.
Golden tests now compare audio via chunked FFTs and L2 distance, which surfaced an OpenCL bug on Mac where objects can legally live at address NULL.
After cleaning up the macOS port hacks and re-verifying Windows, Anukari now runs fully on my M1 MacBook, though the golden tests need fuzzy matching.
JUCE resists testable apps, so on macOS I moved all the unit tests inside a full JUCEApplication, trading test isolation for tests that pass.
Back from paragliding and porting unit tests to MacOS, which forced a cleaner cross-platform approach to GUI testing than my hacky Windows-only setup.
Anukari finally builds and links on my M1 Macbook after homebrew Clang pain, though the OpenCL code crashes whenever a microphone or modulator appears.
Most of the CPU-side refactor for the new voice instancing memory layout is done, with golden tests catching every break in the CPU-to-GPU data reshuffle.
May 2024
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