Changelog

September 12, 2026 · Version 2.0

Canvas, Compose & Scenes

A major update connecting music creation, responsive visual design, and finished music videos.

Three connected creation tools

• Fixed homepage scrolling past the footer and bouncing by containing the animated background.
• Added the Forge Labs parent link to page footers.
• Updated Forge homepage and lab catalog cards to Eidolon 2.0.0 and the Canvas, Compose, and Scenes feature set.
• Named the visual instrument Eidolon Canvas, retained Eidolon Compose for music creation, and introduced Eidolon Scenes for music-video editing.
• Rebuilt the homepage around three clear choices: Explore visuals, Make music, and Create a music video.
• Moved file and live-input choices into Canvas and added a direct Compose-to-Scenes audio handoff.
• Removed the automatic first-session tour interruption, added tool-specific Compose and Scenes help, and clarified navigation back to all tools.

Compose: a deeper music workspace

• Rebuilt Compose with dedicated Patterns, Piano roll, Song, Mixer, Sounds, and Export views, persistent transport controls, and visible recovery status.
• Expanded to eight tracks with dedicated bass, keys, and lead instruments alongside five percussion voices.
• Added all twelve root notes and minor, major, pentatonic, Dorian, and chromatic scales.
• Added a piano roll, adjustable note lengths, chords, rests, synth slides, and note-duration indicators.
• Added four original synthesized drum kits and warm, sub, pluck, and glass synth presets, with attack and tuning controls.
• Added private audio-sample import, auditioning, trimming, fades, gain, and embedded samples in editable project exports.
• Added named patterns, pattern duplication up to sixteen patterns, bar copy/paste, and a focused-track editing view.
• Added draggable song sections, accessible reorder buttons, per-section repeat counts, and volume, filter, Space, and visual-intensity automation.
• Added generation for selected tracks, rhythm character, complexity and fill controls, and preview/accept/discard variations.
• Made note selection independent of note editing and exposed every mixer control on narrow screens.
• Preserved local project storage, sixty-state undo/redo, recovery, and migration from version-one and version-two beat projects.

Canvas: more expressive visual control

• Added a visual look browser for all six worlds and access to saved Visions.
• Added response mapping for kick-driven scale, snare bursts, and treble detail.
• Added independent background, geometry, and particle-layer levels.
• Added manual BPM, tap tempo, and world transitions every four, eight, or sixteen bars.
• Added transition previews that return to the previous look and clear procedural, image-derived, and live-source status.
• Included the new response and layer settings in saved Canvas recipes and made looks reusable in Scenes.

Scenes: make a music video

• Added a music-video workspace with local song input, Compose audio transfer, and built-in demo music.
• Added an audio waveform, beat/bar markers, a seekable preview, and a visual timeline whose clips snap to whole bars.
• Added scene reordering, duration controls, six visual worlds, saved Canvas looks, and cut, crossfade, fade-from-black, and slide transitions.
• Added title overlays and local cover-art layers.
• Added portrait, landscape, and square video formats.
• Added browser-local scene-project saving and recovery, plus portable project import/export with audio and artwork included.
• Added real-time 720p at up to 30 FPS video export, progress and cancellation, with MP4 where supported and WebM fallback.

Reliability and export corrections

• Fixed generation overwriting locked tracks and locked bass pitches.
• Unified live playback, WAV, stems, and MIDI around one deterministic timing plan, including swing, humanize, chance, nudges, and ratchets.
• Added exact-duration loop WAVs with wrapped effect tails and separate full-tail mix export.
• Added eight-track wet/dry stem ZIP export and Type 1 MIDI with timing, chords, and velocity.
• Froze the project during export so edits cannot produce inconsistent stems.
• Made save confirmation wait for the storage transaction to commit and surfaced recovery failures.
• Separated composition and visual undo shortcuts, hardened imported numeric values, and stopped replaced asynchronous media loads from reviving older sources.
• Added bounded sample and export sizes, explicit codec/format guidance, and cancellation when a video-export tab is hidden.
• Retained private browser processing, consent-aware analytics, existing public routes, saved Visions, and source-media controls.

Video export currently supports timelines up to three minutes at 720p at up to 30 FPS and runs in real time. Mix exports support up to ten minutes; stem packages support up to three minutes. MIDI transfers musical notes and timing, while audio samples, synth timbre, effects, and continuous slides remain audio features. Capture, MIDI hardware, and codec availability depend on the browser and device.

August 23, 2026

A public home for the instrument

Eidolon gained a minimal editorial layer without losing the visual identity of the instrument itself.

Released today

• Added the global Home, About, Blog, Industry News, and Changelog menu in the header and footer.
• Published an SEO-focused About page that explains Eidolon's audiovisual music, live-input, beat-making, export, privacy, and accessibility capabilities.
• Published the Blog with five original guides for audiovisual composition, image-to-music work, synthesized beat making, live input, and creative privacy.
• Published Industry News with four dated, source-linked explainers connecting major music-business developments to independent creators.
• Rebuilt informational pages around a living field of contours, particles, light, and depth inspired by the homepage.
• Made uploaded media, microphone, system audio, and Beat Maker input drive substantially deeper motion, pulse, scale, brightness, and transient response across all six worlds.
• Expanded public discovery, canonical metadata, global navigation, consent controls, and the XML sitemap while preserving browser-local creative processing.

July 15, 2026

Initial Launch

The first public release established Eidolon as an audiovisual instrument for turning sound, images, video, and live input into responsive generative worlds.

Released at launch

• Audio, video, and image file input with in-browser analysis.
• Built-in generative field for starting without a source file.
• Microphone, camera, MIDI, and supported tab or system-audio input.
• Six visual worlds: Celestial, Organic, Ritual, Tempest, Prismatic, and Void.
• Frequency, energy, transient, tempo, color, luminance, motion, and scene-change response.
• Palette, motion, geometry, trail, intensity, sensitivity, and frequency-focus controls.
• Saved Visions with local history and media-free recipe links.
• Journey mode for automated travel between visual worlds and saved Visions.
• Performance mode for a distraction-free full-screen visual field.
• Still-image, visual-loop, and live-recording exports.
• MP4 recording when supported, with an explicit WebM fallback.
• Adaptive rendering for lower-powered devices.
• Keyboard navigation, visible focus, reduced motion, sensory-safe mode, and high contrast.
• Guided onboarding and browser capability preflight.
• In-browser creative storage with consent-aware aggregate analytics.
• Privacy, Terms, Help, product information, and direct feedback access.