Brandon ThomasandClaude Opus 5.5
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* Progress docs to the craftrules standard; full re-measure against Pro Tools 2026.4.1 Stage: alpha. Menu breadth 482/512 (94.1%, measured), feature breadth ~70%, ready for real work ~40%; ~350-570 agent-hours to beta, ~950-1,450 to full parity, calibrated on this repo's PR history. - ROADMAP.md rewritten: stage banner, two numbers, dimension/feature/language tables - docs/target-app-parity.md: authoritative assessment (area table moved from ROADMAP) - docs/gaps.md: 22 ranked gaps with evidence and estimates - docs/roadmap.md: milestones, current focus, beta plan - docs/ui-, file-format-, hardware-, plugin-, localization-parity.md: new checklists - docs/parity.md -> docs/parity-checklist.md (generated by cargo xtask parity) - architecture.md: video, vst3-host, au-host crates; device I/O limits Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]> * Stage: pre-alpha under the core-workflow gate Add the alpha gate to docs/roadmap.md: interface recording at a chosen buffer size, MIDI recording, and session interchange with Pro Tools fail, so the stage moves from alpha to pre-alpha (~5 points and ~110-180 agent-hours to alpha). Mark the alpha blockers in docs/gaps.md; update ROADMAP.md, target-app-parity.md and README. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]> * Add mainstream-practitioner and essentials-user readiness numbers Mainstream practitioner ~36% (weekly-area depth 50.6% x 0.90 interaction x 0.92 stability x 0.85 file exchange) and essentials user ~57% (core-feature depth 72.4% x 0.90 launch/stability x 0.90 discoverability x 0.97 files), with written weights, discounts and GitHub user evidence. Full ready-for-real-work checked against its written dimension weights (40.6%); unchanged at ~40%, stage unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]> * Readiness by audience: hours to ~95% for full, mainstream and essentials Full ~40% / 950-1,450 h, mainstream ~36% / 380-600 h, essentials ~57% / 110-200 h, calibrated on this repo's PR history. The full number is already an additive weighted sum over the written dimension table; method unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Localization parity
Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-10 · Change: major (first per-language status) · Target: Avid Pro Tools Ultimate 2026.4.1
SoundCraft is English only. There is no string catalog: every menu label, dialog and tooltip is a
literal in Rust (crates/engine/src/cmd/*, crates/ui-egui/src/*). Pro Tools ships its UI in
8 languages (bundle .lproj folders: English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean,
Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese).
Localization: ~12 % (measured: 1 of the target's 8 UI languages, and English is the only one complete). Remaining ≈ 70–110 h: a catalog and extraction pass (≈ 15–25 h), a font fallback for CJK/Devanagari/Arabic (PR #141 open), RTL layout and complex-script shaping (egui has neither: ≈ 25–40 h, or ship Arabic/Hindi menus-only), then ≈ 3–5 h of agent translation per language, plus native-speaker review (human).
Open work: PR #143 (French and Spanish, a Language setting), PR #141 (bundled multilingual font fallbacks), issue #67 (Ukrainian).
| Language | Code | UI strings translated | Dialogs / tooltips / help | Script support | Native review | Status | Est. to full (h) | In Pro Tools |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | en | all (source) | ✅ | Latin ✅ | — | full | 0 | ✅ |
| Simplified Chinese | zh-Hans | 0 (0 %) | ❌ | ❌ no CJK font fallback, no IME testing | no | none | 6–10 | ✅ |
| Spanish | es | 0 (0 %) — PR #143 pending | ❌ | Latin ✅ | no | none | 3–5 | ✅ |
| Hindi | hi | 0 (0 %) | ❌ | ❌ no Devanagari font or shaping | no | none | 8–15 | ❌ |
| Arabic | ar | 0 (0 %) | ❌ | ❌ no RTL layout, no shaping | no | none | 15–25 | ❌ |
| French | fr | 0 (0 %) — PR #143 pending | ❌ | Latin ✅ | no | none | 3–5 | ✅ |
| Portuguese | pt | 0 (0 %) | ❌ | Latin ✅ | no | none | 3–5 | ❌ |
| Indonesian | id | 0 (0 %) | ❌ | Latin ✅ | no | none | 3–5 | ❌ |
| Japanese | ja | 0 (0 %) | ❌ | ❌ no CJK font fallback, no IME testing | no | none | 6–10 | ✅ |
| German | de | 0 (0 %) | ❌ | Latin ✅ | no | none | 3–5 | ✅ |
| Korean | ko | 0 (0 %) | ❌ | ❌ no Hangul font fallback | no | none | 6–10 | ✅ |
| Vietnamese | vi | 0 (0 %) | ❌ | 🟡 Latin with stacked diacritics, untested | no | none | 3–5 | ❌ |
Other languages shipped: 0. (Pro Tools also ships Traditional Chinese, zh-Hant.)
Per-language hours exclude the shared catalog and script work above.
Revision history
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-10 | major | Created: English only, no catalog; the twelve key languages at 0 %; Pro Tools' 8 languages listed from its bundle |