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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 -- ... http://www.zmix.net http://www.esession.com/ChuckZwicky http://albumcredits.com/zmix