acoustixaudio/Ariel

Description

A cross-platform LV2 host built with GTK4 and lilv.

Features

• Real-time LV2 plugin hosting with lilv integration
• Intelligent plugin search - Quickly find plugins among 865+ discovered LV2 plugins by name, author, or URI
• Category filtering - Browse plugins by type (Distortion, Reverb, Analyzer, etc.) with 40+ categories
• Professional theme collection - 20+ built-in dark themes including Dracula, Nord, Gruvbox, One Dark, Solarized, and more
• Custom CSS theming - Load custom styles from ~/.config/ariel/style.css for personalized appearance
• Settings dialog - Easy theme switching and configuration management
• Drag and drop support for intuitive plugin loading
• Parameter controls with real-time adjustment for all plugin parameters
• File parameter support - Load audio files, neural models, and impulse responses directly into plugins
• Multi-file parameter plugins - Full support for plugins with multiple file parameters (like Ratatouille)
• Enhanced file dialogs - Support for .wav, .nam, .ir, .json, and other audio/model formats
• Preset management - Save and load individual plugin presets
• Chain presets - Save entire plugin chains with all parameters
• Plugin bypass functionality for A/B testing
• Transport controls - Play, stop, record with state management
• Auto-start audio engine for immediate plugin processing
• Mono plugin support with automatic stereo conversion
• Cross-platform compatibility - Linux, Windows, and macOS
• Modern GTK4 interface with responsive design

Installation Instructions

Installation

Prerequisites

Ariel requires the following dependencies:

• GTK4 (>= 4.0) - Modern UI toolkit
• lilv - LV2 plugin host library
• JACK Audio Connection Kit - Real-time audio server
• Meson - Build system
• C compiler (GCC or Clang)

Linux Installation

Ubuntu/Debian

# Install dependencies
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libgtk-4-dev liblilv-dev libjack-jackd2-dev meson build-essential

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/djshaji/ariel.git
cd ariel

# Configure build
meson setup builddir

# Compile
meson compile -C builddir

# Run
./builddir/ariel

Fedora/RHEL/CentOS

# Install dependencies
sudo dnf install gtk4-devel lilv-devel jack-audio-connection-kit-devel meson gcc

# Clone and build
git clone https://github.com/djshaji/ariel.git
cd ariel
meson setup builddir
meson compile -C builddir

# Run
./builddir/ariel

Active Releases

The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).

Release	Architectures	Repo Download
Fedora 41	aarch64 (0)*, x86_64 (2)*	Fedora 41 (12 downloads)
Fedora 42	aarch64 (0)*, x86_64 (2)*	Fedora 42 (8 downloads)
Fedora 43	aarch64 (0)*, x86_64 (2)*	Fedora 43 (10 downloads)
Fedora rawhide	aarch64 (0)*, x86_64 (2)*	Fedora rawhide (12 downloads)

* Total number of downloaded packages.