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Re: Everyday Looper - A Looper for the iPhone/iPod Touch
Thanks a lot guys, glad you like it :) !
Cheers,
Raphaël
Le 25 mars 2011 à 09:57, Loopers Delight a écrit :
> 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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>> ...
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>>
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