Hi all,
Thanks for the kind messages and sorry for my long delayed reply to this thread. I've been terrible about checking and responding to this google group. I also want to apologize for the long duration that these issues have been out in the open and unaddressed. There are a lot of factors that are making my available dev time and progress quite slow these days, but the good news is that the update is very nearly complete (and will be a free update to the existing app). I occasionally post dev updates / info about new features on the Borderlands instagram -
instagram.com/borderlands_granular, so please feel free to follow along there. That is likely the first place I will share news about the update's availability.
This update fixes the real time input problem on iOS 12, improves IAA usage, and brings the app up to date with the latest Audiobus 3 SDK.
It also will add a number of new features and lots of under the hood improvements. The biggest new features include:
- Ableton Link support for both internal and external beat synced grains (with beat quantization adjustable on a per-cloud basis and an in-app tempo adjustment menu)
- A grain trigger probability parameter
- A semitone pitch tuning option (per cloud).
- A new real time input mode that streams input from right to left in a "waterfall" style (vs the existing looping style). This is similar to running a signal through a granular FX pedal
- An overdub level control for the real time input, allowing sound on sound recording
- Automatable sound quad position / size / rotation
- An envelope trigger option for grain clouds, in which clouds have an Attack / Release envelope activated by touching the cloud.
- Ghost clouds (secondary visual representations of clouds which continue playing back automation when the cloud is touched, making it easier to edit clouds with fast position automation.)
- Files support (in that the app's docs directory is now exposed on the iOS file system. Files can be accessed through the app's Recordings menu / "Imported Sounds" sub header
There are quite a few other improvements in this update and more to come in the future. Once this update is in the store, will be moving on to MIDI note in and CC mapping support and iPhone layouts to make the app Universal).
Thank you for your patience, and, again, please accept my apologies for the inconvenience in the meantime. Please feel free to respond here or reach out directly if you have additional questions. (carlsonc at ccrma DOT stanford DOT edu)
Very best,
Chris