Celemony has announced that the ARA (Audio Random Access) protocol is now open source. The company has also released a comprehensive software development kit (SDK).

The ARA interface was originally developed by Celemony – makers of Melodyne – in cooperation with PreSonus. The protocol allows DAWs and plug-ins to exchange musical information such as notes, chords and tempo, as well as audio data, much more seamlessly than before. For example, this means that users of the Melodyne plug-in no longer need to wait for audio files to be transferred from the DAW to the plug-in in real time.

By making ARA open source and providing an SDK, Celemony is making it much easier for developers to integrate the protocol into their software. This means that we could soon see the list of ARA-compatible plug-ins grow considerably. Any application that depends on real-time transmission of audio data and musical information between the DAW and plug-in would benefit from ARA integration. This opens up vast possibilities.

 

Sweeet. Dope!

 

Yeah I heard they have alot of that in Spain

 

Read about this on Gearnews. Will be interesting to see how the open source plug-in developers on github will use it. Always nice to see companies share their technology!