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



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
> 
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