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



Hi Raphaël,

Fantastic work..! I have ordered an iPod touch 
4th gen and an Apogee "Jam" a/d converter.. your 
app will be my fist purchase... looking forward 
to it.

-Chuck Zwicky

>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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