From 087e90a0cf5fb7145d80e0c8be63bbdba03e855f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: h39s <20293445+h39s@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2022 19:45:12 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 20 ++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 50dc238d9..b64282d90 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,16 +1,28 @@ # AQUA -Welcome to the AQUA repository! AQUA is a modern platform for audio equalization on Windows. Our goal is to provide a clean user experience and to support many features such as parametric equalization, graphical UIs, and, in the future, saving/loading presets and integrating automatic equalization. We welcome your feedback, so please join our [discord](TODO) server to share your thoughts with us! Stay tuned for more! +Quick link to releases: + +Welcome to AQUA, a modern platform for audio equalization on Windows. Our goal is to provide a clean user experience and to support many features such as parametric equalization, user friendly graph interfaces, and, in the future, saving/loading presets and AutoEQ integration. Please note that EqualizerAPO is a prerequisite for our application. We would love to get your feedback, address any bugs you encounter, and take any feature requests into consideration as we develop AQUA further, so please join our [discord server](https://discord.gg/44WDeRrr2d) to share your thoughts with us and stay tuned for more! + +![AQUA](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/20293445/201550335-1963cd93-e0ed-44a7-8a7a-bf328371c204.png) ## Getting Started To get started using AQUA, it only takes two easy steps: -1. Install [EqualizerAPO](https://sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo/) if you don't have it currently installed. -2. Download and run the executable `AQUA.Setup.x.x.x.exe` from the latest release. +1. Install [EqualizerAPO](https://sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo/) if you don't have it currently installed (and make sure you run `configurator.exe` included as a part of EqualizerAPO to install the required drivers for the devices you would like to EQ). +2. Download and run the executable `AQUA.Setup.x.x.x.exe` from the latest [release](https://github.com/h39s/AQUA/releases). + +## Future UI Goal (Rough) + +![Presets](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/20293445/201551324-ae29956b-b2a4-4d96-81ea-f4560a0c8e42.png) ## Get In Touch -If you find any bugs, have any feature requests, or want to give us any kind of feedback, we'd love to hear it! Please join us in our [discord](TODO) to reach out and to keep up to date with new release information! +If you find any bugs, have any feature requests, or want to give us any kind of feedback, we'd love to hear it! Please join us in our [discord](https://discord.gg/44WDeRrr2d) to reach out and to keep up to date with new release information! + +## About the Developers + +We are a group of university students in our final year. This is both a passion project and capstone endeavour for us. We will be actively developing the application for the next 6 months and aim to add EQ presets, graphic EQ manipulation, and AutoEQ. Please note that we may not always be available to address your messages on discord as we are all full-time students. ## Development Prerequisites