Caustic 3.1.0_installer.exe
Kayla Munl
I really like the Android version, but I wanted to see if I could get it to run in Linux under Wine. As you may know, I use Ubuntu Studio for all of my audio work, so I downloaded the Windows installer here, and installed it using:
Once it installed, I tried running it but instead got an error about VC90 missing. I did a bit of research, and using winetricks, I installed Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 runtimes. I tried running caustic again and it opened, but the mouse was actually clicking nowhere near the pointer arrow!
I have tried a few song creating apps and to my inexperienced mind, caustic 3 is by far the best. The feature set, the UI, the sound, etc all amazing. I am only part way through figuring it all out and it never seems to end as far as the capabilities of the app. The developer is so good. $10 is nothing for an app like Caustic. You can pay that much just for a synth like one if the ones in Caustic. Or even for a sound editor. Caustic has it all and if you want something that you do in another app, go ahead and import it, or connect with audiobus. Wow!!! Caustic is sooo much fun and soooo powerful!!
A fantastic app. The UI is not as polished as some iOS apps but even saying that seems indecently petty, given the functionality : Great sounding boxes (and a huge variety of synth types) with a cool effects implementation, a neat pattern based sequencer, low CPU usage, and tiny storage footprint.
Caustic has probably done OK financially since it was the big fish in a small pond (of Android-using musicians) but it would be foolish to ignore the fact that most musicians who use tablets are on the Apple platform.
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The auto updaters will check for a new version on launch.
The portable zip versions are used as update packages. You can run them standalone, but they are no longer truly portable as settings are stored on the local machine.
Release notes for this version:
Added spanish translations
Added guardian zone resistance to FSD Booster
Flip caustic/explosive labels for armour/shield in ship editor
Override Power Distributor Shielded modification description
Release notes for this version:
Add guardian zone resistance to other guardian modules
Allow pinning multiple same type blueprints at the same engineer (sink launchers/guardian modules)
Add highlight for cause for material type drop in HGE Tracker
Fix HGE Tracker - no faction systems with allegiance showing as 0% instead of 100%