Re: Everyday Looper - A Looper for the iPhone/iPod Touch

[Reyn Ouwehand <loopers-delight@reyn.net>]

I love it Raphaël! Great work!!

Cheers,

Reyn

www.reyn.net
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On Jan 30, 2010, at 12:25 AM, Raphaël - Mancing Dolecules wrote:

> Hi Everyone !
> 
> I'm Raphaël, indy iPhone developer, amateur guitarist and looper
> lover. I usually and still use an Electrix Repeater and a RC20XL,
> which wonderfully do their job, but when I first get my hands on an
> iPhone, some ideas began to pop up and they eventually came together
> as an app called Everyday Looper.
> 
> First, when using the Repeater, I always got the frustration of not
> being able to visualize my recordings, as a waveform provides great
> information about the audio signal that it represents : rhythm, tempo,
> envelop of notes, silences, ... . Even more great is that it does it
> in 2D, meaning that wherever the play cursor is, I can view these
> infos for the entire length of my loop, so I have a representation of
> the future before hearing it. Translated into facts, Everyday Looper
> displays its four tracks (yes, like the Repeater ^^) waveform in full
> screen. No buttons or anything to clutter the space.
> 
> Then I wanted a "joyfull" way to interact with the looper. Real knobs,
> buttons and foot switches are totally cool, but, let's face it, an
> iPhone doesn't have any ... Virtual buttons are off, because of the
> first feature up here and because I don't like them, simply. So I go
> for multi-touch gestures instead. For exemple you can tap with two
> fingers to play/pause, swipe simultaneously over multiple tracks to
> change volume, tap and hold a track and drag it to its destination to
> merge ... That gives a great feeling of interacting directly with
> audio.
> 
> And last, I wanted it to assist us in every way possible. So you will
> find features as auto-normalisation, a limiter on both merge path and
> final mix path, and quantized to loop recording.
> 
> As I see it, there is two major family of looper users (and of course
> all the shades in-between). The ambient ones, which extensively use
> feedback, overdubbing and can be quite happy with a single loop track.
> The structural ones, for which multiple track, and quantization are
> vital. As you probably guess it, I'm more in the second category, so
> is the looper too. At least for now ^^.
> 
> Here is my website if you want more precise information, screenshots,
> videos, ... : http://www.mancingdolecules.com . And here is the direct
> link for download : http://www.itunes.com/app/EverydayLooper .
> 
> The app is on sale now (2$/1.6€/1.2£) to celebrate the 1.1 update
> which adds track merging. The usual price will be (5$/4€/3£). But I
> would like to offer you a few promo codes, to download it for free, if
> you have an iTunes US Store account. I can give away 5. Simply write
> me directly through this mail (raphael@mancingdolecules.com) and I
> will happily send you one if their is some left.
> 
> Don't hesitate to tell me what you think about it, or ask me questions
> if things are unclear. On this mailing list will be fine as I read it
> regularly :).
> 
> Cheers !
> 
> Raphaël
> 
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