Breaking the Synth Mold

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@Jocphone said:

@MonzoPro said:

@Jocphone said:
I'm almost loath to post this because it is so good and I should keep it to myself, but one of my favourite non-traditional synths is BitWiz by Jonatan Liljedahl.

You write C style code to generate raw audio.

Before you run away screaming, alternatively you can swipe your fingers over the interface to generate another algorithm. The sounds it produces vary from soothing to nerve wracking momentarily stopping at terrifying and mind blowing. Sometimes it generates no sound, other times it produces interactive sounds that you can vary with an XY pad at the bottom of the screen.

An inspiring and unique app. I'm already regretting letting you in on this secret

Looks interesting, the noises remind me of Hexaglyphics a bit which is another weird thing.

Worth a punt for 79p.

I have wasted many an hour with the following process in BitWiz

Swipe
Try XY pad (optional)
Laugh maniacally
Repeat

Sounds like my idea of a good night in. Notice you can use it to process audio as well via AB - will get this in a bit for some twitchy scratching hop hup hup spiral

Carnbot

I would definitely say Animoog and TC-11 and others that also use the ipad touch screen creatively. Honourable mentions to Shoom and Photophore. I would also add Rotor even though I haven't used the built in synths much yet.

[Deleted User]

@u0421793 said:
The thing about the wavestation is interesting. It is a truly wonderful synth. I very nearly bought one in the 90s. When I say very nearly, I actually had carried it in the box in the shop all the way up to the counter to pay for it, and as it was resting on my foot, I had a sudden change of mind (which was fortunate as I unaware that I was about to face a financial smack in the face, and to have spent that then would have made things worse). I really really wanted it though, but already had a Yamaha SY77 so remained content with that until I had to sell it.

It is only now that I can put into a more overviewing perspective the whole evolution of synthesisers over the past many decades. The wavestation is one of the important ones. So is the Korg AI line (the M1, O1/W up to current models, etc). Similarly the Yamaha AWM-base line.

The way I see the history is this: (I'm afraid I overwrote the following, it says 'body is 5684 characters too long, so I've wrapped it up as a google doc, and here's the link): https://docs.google.com/document/d/10h8JPI_C-HnmCrjI-5lvEhl36boASYL47IVIKqFb8s8
(Too long, nobody will read it, sorry).

I read it. I found it compelling, maybe due to agreement, maybe due to reminisce. The one note that struck me though was that of Sampling strangling the progress of digital synthesis at the time. I may have termed that slightly different, yet I think we can both see that we meant the same.

I remember the release of most synths so vividly throughout the late eighties, early nineties. I can easily visualise the pattern of change you so elequently describe. It takes me back. Standing in a shop playing a M1 (or version of) and the Wavestation (think it was the extended Wave version). I immediately gravitated towards the Wavestation, while most I know went the M1 real world sounds route. I think at the time I was playing a DW8000 mostly. At the time these were already considered 'old hat'. Why buy a synth when you could sample any sound you wanted? That was the call of the day.

Later people got bored with dog sounds and trying to sample complex sounds through a key hole interface. The sampler became the mainstay of the studio, while the synth became its own compressed version of the studio with more and more generic sounds. At the same time, in dark corners of the music world, the tweekers and sound makers had found the shadowed would of electronics again. They bought old cheap analog monsters. They bought the new generation of modular from overseas. They got out their soldering irons and messed with any cheap and old gear they could get their grimey paws on. The synth head was taking its first primitive steps into the world.

Time passed and computers came to give a glimpse that they would one day rule the world. Digital synths passed away with their decaying batteries and became software. The sampler had moved into large stand alone hardware units with pads. Everyone was dancing to the latest loops. The Fairlight was now demoted to a coffee table in some studios. Everyone dusted off their guitars again, as guitars were cool. And about this time some were beginning to say 'hey, remember the analog synths? Remember twiddling knobs? Remember the good old days?

The digital synthesis of yore will have its day in the sun again. Mark my words it's only a matter of time

AndyPlankton

@Fruitbat1919 said:

@u0421793 said:
The thing about the wavestation is interesting. It is a truly wonderful synth. I very nearly bought one in the 90s. When I say very nearly, I actually had carried it in the box in the shop all the way up to the counter to pay for it, and as it was resting on my foot, I had a sudden change of mind (which was fortunate as I unaware that I was about to face a financial smack in the face, and to have spent that then would have made things worse). I really really wanted it though, but already had a Yamaha SY77 so remained content with that until I had to sell it.

It is only now that I can put into a more overviewing perspective the whole evolution of synthesisers over the past many decades. The wavestation is one of the important ones. So is the Korg AI line (the M1, O1/W up to current models, etc). Similarly the Yamaha AWM-base line.

The way I see the history is this: (I'm afraid I overwrote the following, it says 'body is 5684 characters too long, so I've wrapped it up as a google doc, and here's the link): https://docs.google.com/document/d/10h8JPI_C-HnmCrjI-5lvEhl36boASYL47IVIKqFb8s8
(Too long, nobody will read it, sorry).

I read it. I found it compelling, maybe due to agreement, maybe due to reminisce. The one note that struck me though was that of Sampling strangling the progress of digital synthesis at the time. I may have termed that slightly different, yet I think we can both see that we meant the same.

I remember the release of most synths so vividly throughout the late eighties, early nineties. I can easily visualise the pattern of change you so elequently describe. It takes me back. Standing in a shop playing a M1 (or version of) and the Wavestation (think it was the extended Wave version). I immediately gravitated towards the Wavestation, while most I know went the M1 real world sounds route. I think at the time I was playing a DW8000 mostly. At the time these were already considered 'old hat'. Why buy a synth when you could sample any sound you wanted? That was the call of the day.

Later people got bored with dog sounds and trying to sample complex sounds through a key hole interface. The sampler became the mainstay of the studio, while the synth became its own compressed version of the studio with more and more generic sounds. At the same time, in dark corners of the music world, the tweekers and sound makers had found the shadowed would of electronics again. They bought old cheap analog monsters. They bought the new generation of modular from overseas. They got out their soldering irons and messed with any cheap and old gear they could get their grimey paws on. The synth head was taking its first primitive steps into the world.

Time passed and computers came to give a glimpse that they would one day rule the world. Digital synths passed away with their decaying batteries and became software. The sampler had moved into large stand alone hardware units with pads. Everyone was dancing to the latest loops. The Fairlight was now demoted to a coffee table in some studios. Everyone dusted off their guitars again, as guitars were cool. And about this time some were beginning to say 'hey, remember the analog synths? Remember twiddling knobs? Remember the good old days?

The digital synthesis of yore will have its day in the sun again. Mark my words it's only a matter of time

As long as the haircuts don't come back with it

[Deleted User]

@AndyPlankton

I'm ashamed to say I still shave my hair down the sides like I did when I was a teen lol

Jocphone

@MonzoPro said:

@Jocphone said:

@MonzoPro said:

@Jocphone said:
I'm almost loath to post this because it is so good and I should keep it to myself, but one of my favourite non-traditional synths is BitWiz by Jonatan Liljedahl.

You write C style code to generate raw audio.

Before you run away screaming, alternatively you can swipe your fingers over the interface to generate another algorithm. The sounds it produces vary from soothing to nerve wracking momentarily stopping at terrifying and mind blowing. Sometimes it generates no sound, other times it produces interactive sounds that you can vary with an XY pad at the bottom of the screen.

An inspiring and unique app. I'm already regretting letting you in on this secret

Looks interesting, the noises remind me of Hexaglyphics a bit which is another weird thing.

Worth a punt for 79p.

I have wasted many an hour with the following process in BitWiz

Swipe
Try XY pad (optional)
Laugh maniacally
Repeat

Sounds like my idea of a good night in. Notice you can use it to process audio as well via AB - will get this in a bit for some twitchy scratching hop hup hup spiral

That's exactly the use case it was invented for.

[Deleted User]

@Jocphone said:

@MonzoPro said:

@Jocphone said:

@MonzoPro said:

@Jocphone said:
I'm almost loath to post this because it is so good and I should keep it to myself, but one of my favourite non-traditional synths is BitWiz by Jonatan Liljedahl.

You write C style code to generate raw audio.

Before you run away screaming, alternatively you can swipe your fingers over the interface to generate another algorithm. The sounds it produces vary from soothing to nerve wracking momentarily stopping at terrifying and mind blowing. Sometimes it generates no sound, other times it produces interactive sounds that you can vary with an XY pad at the bottom of the screen.

An inspiring and unique app. I'm already regretting letting you in on this secret

Looks interesting, the noises remind me of Hexaglyphics a bit which is another weird thing.

Worth a punt for 79p.

I have wasted many an hour with the following process in BitWiz

Swipe
Try XY pad (optional)
Laugh maniacally
Repeat

Sounds like my idea of a good night in. Notice you can use it to process audio as well via AB - will get this in a bit for some twitchy scratching hop hup hup spiral

That's exactly the use case it was invented for.

Bought it - impressed with the range of sounds included, random swiping and X/y pad action - I'm going to pair this up with ElasticDrums and Cyclop tonight for a racket sesh.

Have you been able to trigger it via MIDI? I tried with Patterning and Fugue but it didn't work.

Jocphone

@MonzoPro said:

@Jocphone said:

@MonzoPro said:

@Jocphone said:

@MonzoPro said:

@Jocphone said:
I'm almost loath to post this because it is so good and I should keep it to myself, but one of my favourite non-traditional synths is BitWiz by Jonatan Liljedahl.

You write C style code to generate raw audio.

Before you run away screaming, alternatively you can swipe your fingers over the interface to generate another algorithm. The sounds it produces vary from soothing to nerve wracking momentarily stopping at terrifying and mind blowing. Sometimes it generates no sound, other times it produces interactive sounds that you can vary with an XY pad at the bottom of the screen.

An inspiring and unique app. I'm already regretting letting you in on this secret

Looks interesting, the noises remind me of Hexaglyphics a bit which is another weird thing.

Worth a punt for 79p.

I have wasted many an hour with the following process in BitWiz

Swipe
Try XY pad (optional)
Laugh maniacally
Repeat

Sounds like my idea of a good night in. Notice you can use it to process audio as well via AB - will get this in a bit for some twitchy scratching hop hup hup spiral

That's exactly the use case it was invented for.

Bought it - impressed with the range of sounds included, random swiping and X/y pad action - I'm going to pair this up with ElasticDrums and Cyclop tonight for a racket sesh.

Have you been able to trigger it via MIDI? I tried with Patterning and Fugue but it didn't work.

I love the visuals too. Shame you can't export those.

Never tried it with MIDI but a quick search showed that there is a MIDI CONTROL section of the settings and it responds to CC messages. Beyond that, I have no idea. Maybe @j_liljedahl can shed some light?

AndyPlankton

@Fruitbat1919 said:
@AndyPlankton

I'm ashamed to say I still shave my hair down the sides like I did when I was a teen lol

I only have hair down the sides these days

Redo1

Speaking of BitWiz...I never bought it because I already owned GlitchMachine which looked quite similar. It's by the amazing madgarden who is more known for his games though.

philowerx

+1 on TC-11 and BitWiz. If you want to understand bit wise coding this is a good start: http://countercomplex.blogspot.com/2011/10/some-deep-analysis-of-one-line-music.html?m=1
& here is some code. Some will readily work with BitWiz with little to no modification:
http://pelulamu.net/countercomplex/music_formula_collection.txt

AndyPlankton

@u0421793 said:
The thing about the wavestation is interesting. It is a truly wonderful synth. I very nearly bought one in the 90s. When I say very nearly, I actually had carried it in the box in the shop all the way up to the counter to pay for it, and as it was resting on my foot, I had a sudden change of mind (which was fortunate as I unaware that I was about to face a financial smack in the face, and to have spent that then would have made things worse). I really really wanted it though, but already had a Yamaha SY77 so remained content with that until I had to sell it.

It is only now that I can put into a more overviewing perspective the whole evolution of synthesisers over the past many decades. The wavestation is one of the important ones. So is the Korg AI line (the M1, O1/W up to current models, etc). Similarly the Yamaha AWM-base line.

The way I see the history is this: (I'm afraid I overwrote the following, it says 'body is 5684 characters too long, so I've wrapped it up as a google doc, and here's the link): https://docs.google.com/document/d/10h8JPI_C-HnmCrjI-5lvEhl36boASYL47IVIKqFb8s8
(Too long, nobody will read it, sorry).

I just took time out in my lunch hour to read this, This is exactly how I look at anything, hardware/software sound sources/sequencers etc... it is not the sounds that come in the box that matter, it is the control and what you can do to those sounds that makes the difference (on very rare occasions just the way something is laid out will make you respond differently to it than something else with the same internals). Once you strip back all the fluff, what are you left with, and what does that allow you to do.

I can imagine many many keyboard players during the digital evolution saying things like, "If I wanted to sound like a saxophone, I'd go and learn how to play one....gimme something I can make my own"
similarly, many synth R&D technicians saying "Wow check this out, sounds just like a real saxophone doesn't it"

The current trend has been for emulating analogue gear using DSP which i guess is the ultimate in using digital sources with digital control along with easy and predictable mass production, and they use it to try and make it sound like the 'Old stuff'.....tsk I guess the manufacturers largely gave up on this idea and are now releasing the re-issues of old analog stuff, and the newer analog models that have the digital control. The next logical step is Digital synths for Digital sounds, not trying to recreate real instruments.

Something that Korg has done with both the Monologue and iWavestation (Poison has it too) is to provide an oscilloscope view of the wave form, I wonder if this is to help with the naming problem that you say was the cause of the 'real' instrument oscillators taking over....now you can see the shape so a name is not really needed, Novations approach with circuit of not allowing you to see the oscillator names or even what controls the knobs are moving......both approaches take the name out of the equation.
Perhaps these are the first baby steps towards oscillator anonymity which would put us back on the path of creating new sound rather than trying to recreate the old sound of something else.

Great article and brilliantly written.

Thanks dude

skiphunt

@u0421793 excellent! You should get your more in-depth documents like this on scholar.google.com

@Fruitbat1919 if you (or anyone else here) were to pick just one of the PPG apps, which would it be, and how steep is the learning curve?

@Jocphone I've had BitWiz for almost a year I think, but I've never managed to get anything "soothing" out of it. Mostly raging, chaotic noise. I don't program in C, so maybe that's the problem. I've only tried editing the built-in code and occasionally stumble onto a brief instance of tolerable sound. I played with the presets that have x/y and coded that into some of my tweaked presets too, but that was many months ago. Might have to revisit it now that I'm more familiar with iOS apps in general. You mention swiping to change the algorithm.. didn't notice you could do that, will have another go at it and see if I can unearth any of this "soothing" sound you mention.

Jocphone

@skiphunt said:
@Jocphone I've had BitWiz for almost a year I think, but I've never managed to get anything "soothing" out of it. Mostly raging, chaotic noise. I don't program in C, so maybe that's the problem. I've only tried editing the built-in code and occasionally stumble onto a brief instance of tolerable sound. I played with the presets that have x/y and coded that into some of my tweaked presets too, but that was many months ago. Might have to revisit it now that I'm more familiar with iOS apps in general. You mention swiping to change the algorithm.. didn't notice you could do that, will have another go at it and see if I can unearth any of this "soothing" sound you mention.

Yes I tried wizzing the bits but swiping for random sounds is so much more immediate and fun.

Soothing is in the ear of the BitWiz Holder though...

AndyPlankton

@Jocphone said:

@skiphunt said:
@Jocphone I've had BitWiz for almost a year I think, but I've never managed to get anything "soothing" out of it. Mostly raging, chaotic noise. I don't program in C, so maybe that's the problem. I've only tried editing the built-in code and occasionally stumble onto a brief instance of tolerable sound. I played with the presets that have x/y and coded that into some of my tweaked presets too, but that was many months ago. Might have to revisit it now that I'm more familiar with iOS apps in general. You mention swiping to change the algorithm.. didn't notice you could do that, will have another go at it and see if I can unearth any of this "soothing" sound you mention.

Yes I tried wizzing the bits but swiping for random sounds is so much more immediate and fun.

Soothing is in the ear of the BitWiz Holder though...

I just bought this on your recommendation too.....but i ain't looking for soothing

Jocphone

@AndyPlankton said:

@Jocphone said:

@skiphunt said:
@Jocphone I've had BitWiz for almost a year I think, but I've never managed to get anything "soothing" out of it. Mostly raging, chaotic noise. I don't program in C, so maybe that's the problem. I've only tried editing the built-in code and occasionally stumble onto a brief instance of tolerable sound. I played with the presets that have x/y and coded that into some of my tweaked presets too, but that was many months ago. Might have to revisit it now that I'm more familiar with iOS apps in general. You mention swiping to change the algorithm.. didn't notice you could do that, will have another go at it and see if I can unearth any of this "soothing" sound you mention.

Yes I tried wizzing the bits but swiping for random sounds is so much more immediate and fun.

Soothing is in the ear of the BitWiz Holder though...

I just bought this on your recommendation too.....but i ain't looking for soothing

I may have been exaggerating the soothing end of the spectrum

Hope I don't get a rash of minimal ambient specialists knocking on my door demanding their 79p's back

AndyPlankton

@Jocphone said:

@AndyPlankton said:

@Jocphone said:

@skiphunt said:
@Jocphone I've had BitWiz for almost a year I think, but I've never managed to get anything "soothing" out of it. Mostly raging, chaotic noise. I don't program in C, so maybe that's the problem. I've only tried editing the built-in code and occasionally stumble onto a brief instance of tolerable sound. I played with the presets that have x/y and coded that into some of my tweaked presets too, but that was many months ago. Might have to revisit it now that I'm more familiar with iOS apps in general. You mention swiping to change the algorithm.. didn't notice you could do that, will have another go at it and see if I can unearth any of this "soothing" sound you mention.

Yes I tried wizzing the bits but swiping for random sounds is so much more immediate and fun.

Soothing is in the ear of the BitWiz Holder though...

I just bought this on your recommendation too.....but i ain't looking for soothing

I may have been exaggerating the soothing end of the spectrum

Hope I don't get a rash of minimal ambient specialists knocking on my door demanding their 79p's back

Nah....they'll all be too chilled staring at sunsets or in sensory tanks

skiphunt

@Jocphone said:

@AndyPlankton said:

@Jocphone said:

@skiphunt said:
@Jocphone I've had BitWiz for almost a year I think, but I've never managed to get anything "soothing" out of it. Mostly raging, chaotic noise. I don't program in C, so maybe that's the problem. I've only tried editing the built-in code and occasionally stumble onto a brief instance of tolerable sound. I played with the presets that have x/y and coded that into some of my tweaked presets too, but that was many months ago. Might have to revisit it now that I'm more familiar with iOS apps in general. You mention swiping to change the algorithm.. didn't notice you could do that, will have another go at it and see if I can unearth any of this "soothing" sound you mention.

Yes I tried wizzing the bits but swiping for random sounds is so much more immediate and fun.

Soothing is in the ear of the BitWiz Holder though...

I just bought this on your recommendation too.....but i ain't looking for soothing

I may have been exaggerating the soothing end of the spectrum

Hope I don't get a rash of minimal ambient specialists knocking on my door demanding their 79p's back

I bought it way back because I wanted everything that dev had built. In the beginning, I was just trying to get some control over it. Eventually I just used it as a base to apply effects to.

I'm intrigued by one of the PPG apps because it appeared to be able to use actual graphic images to form the waves from? Perhaps that's wavemapper. Not sure, but I like the apps that inspire more experimentation and BitWiz certainly has that covered. Just need to revisit it and see if I can wrangle its sound into something that minimizes the bleeding from my ears. lol

Just launched it and got a message that BitWiz may slow down your iPad and that the developer needs to update it. Been getting that message more lately with older apps that haven't had an update in a long time. I wonder what it means exactly?

Carnbot

+1 on Bitwiz what a great little app

skiphunt

Just had a quick refresher with BitWiz. Had thought the swipe was merely going through the factory presets and not random, but the dev clearly states it's completely random. Cool!!!

Couldn't remember how to get BitWiz to behave as a realtime effects app in AUM & AB. Forgot that you have to use the input "i^" variable code first. Watched a refresher on it. @Jocphone is right, it can be VERY soothing and relaxing. So much so, the harsh grating nearly put me to asleep. lol

oat_phipps

@Redo1 said:
Speaking of BitWiz...I never bought it because I already owned GlitchMachine which looked quite similar. It's by the amazing madgarden who is more known for his games though.

Thanks for reminding me! Re-downloaded Flapthulu as well.

richardyot

@u0421793 said:
The way I see the history is this: (I'm afraid I overwrote the following, it says 'body is 5684 characters too long, so I've wrapped it up as a google doc, and here's the link): https://docs.google.com/document/d/10h8JPI_C-HnmCrjI-5lvEhl36boASYL47IVIKqFb8s8
(Too long, nobody will read it, sorry).

That was very good, and also might send me back to the iWavestation for another dabble - I hadn't realised that it might have this hidden potential.

AudioGus

@Jocphone said:
I'm almost loath to post this because it is so good and I should keep it to myself, but one of my favourite non-traditional synths is BitWiz by Jonatan Liljedahl.

You write C style code to generate raw audio.

hehe I am pretty sure your 'secret' is quite safe.

Redo1

@oat_phipps said:

@Redo1 said:
Speaking of BitWiz...I never bought it because I already owned GlitchMachine which looked quite similar. It's by the amazing madgarden who is more known for his games though.

Thanks for reminding me! Re-downloaded Flapthulu as well.

Tried punch quest yet? He worked on that too. And chillaxian is very cool.

[Deleted User]

@Redo1 said:
Speaking of BitWiz...I never bought it because I already owned GlitchMachine which looked quite similar.

Ahhh yes, I'd forgotten I had that too. Very similar - I find Bitwiz is easier to muck about with though.

@Jocphone said:

Never tried it with MIDI but a quick search showed that there is a MIDI CONTROL section of the settings and it responds to CC messages. Beyond that, I have no idea. Maybe @j_liljedahl can shed some light?

Be handy if he can - it'd be great to trigger it with Patterning, would benefit an update too by the looks of the pop-up.

I like it though, it's knocking out some good noises - though using it with headphones is a bit dangerous. I'm going to create a few bits and load them up in Egoist, Blocs and whatnot for further twitching and jelly.

@philowerx said:

& here is some code. Some will readily work with BitWiz with little to no modification:
http://pelulamu.net/countercomplex/music_formula_collection.txt

Oooh good stuff - thanks for that!

aaronpc

@u0421793 said:
The way I see the history is this: (I'm afraid I overwrote the following, it says 'body is 5684 characters too long, so I've wrapped it up as a google doc, and here's the link): https://docs.google.com/document/d/10h8JPI_C-HnmCrjI-5lvEhl36boASYL47IVIKqFb8s8
(Too long, nobody will read it, sorry).

Sorry. I didn't read it. But I put it through a word mangler and it's really funky now.

[Deleted User]

@Fruitbat1919 if you (or anyone else here) were to pick just one of the PPG apps, which would it be, and how steep is the learning curve?

>
Difficult one to answer that. I love all 3 of the apps in different ways. But I will base my answer on one easy marker. I have made more patches with WaveMapper than the other two, probably for the following reasons:

While WaveMapper does not let you go as deep with the wavetables as WaveGenerator, it does let use a different tables for each oscillator. Hence combining very different waves to make segments of the sound whole.

WaveMapper has a very nice simplified mode for getting the basics of the sound elements in place before going deeper. This also can be part of a very useful happy accident generator. Bung some segments together on the mapping page and press for some random results. Great for getting sounds together without too much work.

Thing is though The apps go well together as you can share Wavetables you make in WaveGenerator into WaveMapper.

Phonem is an altogether different beast and while it is wonderful, I don't feel I know it enough to really comment as yet. I need more time with this one.

srcer

@philowerx said:
+1 on TC-11 and BitWiz. If you want to understand bit wise coding this is a good start: http://countercomplex.blogspot.com/2011/10/some-deep-analysis-of-one-line-music.html?m=1
& here is some code. Some will readily work with BitWiz with little to no modification:
http://pelulamu.net/countercomplex/music_formula_collection.txt

Thanks for those!

Here's a little gem based on code by none other than @j_liljedahl
http://keypulsations.tumblr.com/post/131300224277/based-on-code-by-jonatan-liljedahl-for
That's, I believe, code for Supercollider
http://supercollider.github.io/

And on the subject of music as code, be sure to check out Overtone and it's kid brother Sonic Pi
http://overtone.github.io/
http://sonic-pi.net/
Both are built on Supercollider, but provide their own language to code in

srcer

@oat_phipps said:

@Redo1 said:
Speaking of BitWiz...I never bought it because I already owned GlitchMachine which looked quite similar. It's by the amazing madgarden who is more known for his games though.

Thanks for reminding me! Re-downloaded Flapthulu as well.

I narrowly missed the Flappy Bird craze, however this looks like an altogether much more enjoyable rendition. Long live the mashup! Long live the remix!

philowerx

@skiphunt

Just launched it and got a message that BitWiz may slow down your iPad and that the developer needs to update it. Been getting that message more lately with older apps that haven't had an update in a long time. I wonder what it means exactly?

These apps are 32bit. Apple wants the developers to rewrite for 64bit. It doesn't really slow your iOS device down, it's just another Apple nag-screen so you'll push the developers.