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Yeh, it's a great tool. Very well made.. Cheers, Reyn www.reyn.net On Mar 23, 2011, at 8:51 PM, Charles Zwicky wrote: > 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 > >