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iPad xLights — Plan Index

Work to ship the iPad app is tracked across focused sub-plans here. The top-level iPad-xLights-Plan.md (one directory up) keeps the overall situation (current state, phase summary, MVP-remaining list, risks, open questions) and links here for the details.

Active sub-plans

File Phase What's left
phase-h-app-store.md H — App Store readiness H-5: screenshots, App Store Connect metadata, submission
phase-i-import-effects.md I — Import Effects I-3 vendor-sequence regression + Auto Map UX polish, I-4 (.sup), I-5 (.lms/.las)
phase-b-grid-parity.md B — Effects grid parity 2 P2 named (B77 MIDI, B79 AI Speech 2 Lyrics) + 3 deferred
followups.md Cross-phase Small items left over from A / C / E / H plus a "TestFlight quality" bundle (log export, About, Help menu, crash telemetry, Check Sequence, …)

Residual sub-plans (phase complete)

Kept around for deferral / caveat reference; landed implementation prose is in git history.

File Phase Why kept
phase-d-preview.md D — Model Preview "View Objects" coarse toggle, Fit Selected silent no-op caveat
phase-f-window-system.md F — Window system Stage Manager position quirk, detached-scene preview state deferral
phase-g-document.md G — Document / iCloud .piz/.zip UTI deferral, save-back from non-Files providers

Future / post-MVP

No commitment — captured so we don't lose the design context. Most items here trace back to the 2026-04-23 gap analysis.

File Topic Severity / scale
future-controllers-tab.md Controllers tab — discovery, list, edit, upload (Phase R / R-pro) P1 / XL+ — biggest single near-feature gap
future-audio-authoring.md Onset / tempo → timing tracks, spectrogram, pitch contour (Phase J) P1 / M each
future-aux-panels.md Search / Find / EffectTree / Jukebox / SequenceVideo / bulk-edit (Phase L) P1 (Search, EffectTree) / others P2
future-preferences.md Preferences (10 panels, 96 options) + ColorManager + backup (Phase M) P2 / L overall
future-help-diagnostics.md Tip-of-Day, in-app log viewer, Package Show, RestoreBackup (Phase P) P2 / M
future-imports-exports.md Vixen 3, Papagayo, Audacity, MIDI, etc. + 14-format export + Convert dialog (Phase N) P2 / L
future-effect-presets.md Disk-persistent effect presets (G12) + EffectTree pairing P1 / M
future-pictures-frame-editor.md Pictures / GIF frame-timing editor + Effect Assist panels (EA-1..3) P2 / XL each
future-ai-palette-generate.md AI palette generation (AI-1) P2 / S
future-ai-image-generate.md AI image generation (AI-2..AI-5) P2 / M each
future-layout-editing.md Layout panel — model placement, world layout (Phase S / S-pro) P2 / XXL — multi-year
future-custom-models.md Custom model + Face/State + DMX deep + Wiring (Phases T/U/V/W) P2 / XXL

Hard misses (no realistic iOS path)

Documented for the record so we don't keep re-litigating:

  • VAMP plugin host (polyphonic transcription, custom user plugins). No iOS replacement. CoreML-based feature extraction is XXL and doesn't preserve plugin extensibility.
  • Python scripting (pybind11 + Python 3 embedding). App Store hostile.
  • Lua scripting via JIT. Same App Store concern; could ship interpreted but workflow value is low.
  • 3D Connexion / SpaceMouse input. Desktop peripheral.
  • FFmpeg whole library. Bundling adds ~50 MB + licensing / review risk; AVFoundation-only is the policy.
  • Custom KeyBindings editor. Touch-first iPad uses gestures + menu items.
  • AUI Manager perspectives. Single-window iPad layout doesn't benefit.

Ground rules for sub-plans

  1. Only track pending work. Finished items are git history, not plan noise.
  2. Each bullet should be concrete enough to scope against without re-reading the codebase.
  3. Keep files focused. If a sub-plan grows past ~600 lines it probably needs to be split.
  4. When a phase completes, the sub-plan shrinks to a residual file covering deferrals + caveats only — or is deleted entirely if nothing future-relevant remains.
  5. The future-*.md files are not commitments. Severities and effort estimates are recommendations from the gap analysis; the team decides what ships.