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Released: Audio Damage Circa

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  • skiphuntskiphunt

    @Gavinski said:

    @Mountain_Hamlet said:
    I will add one thing I find really cool with Circa and that is the easy ability to delete a section of a loop. I think this is a nice feature.

    Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that feature, it’s great

    I missed that feature somehow. How do you delete a portion of a loop?

  • PxlhgPxlhg

    @skiphunt said:

    @Gavinski said:

    @Mountain_Hamlet said:
    I will add one thing I find really cool with Circa and that is the easy ability to delete a section of a loop. I think this is a nice feature.

    Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that feature, it’s great

    I missed that feature somehow. How do you delete a portion of a loop?

    Hold and release on the eraser button, Doug shows it pretty early in the video (but omit a whole load of other stuff)

  • PxlhgPxlhg

    @Gavinski said:

    @Mountain_Hamlet said:
    Out of curiosity, does anybody else experience a situation where loop 1 (the left one) doesn’t stop when the host is stopped? I have it in “sync to host” and it doesn’t seem to want to atop. When I have sync to host turned off I can stop and start it any way I want, but when I turn sync to host on it just keeps playing and the stop buttons don’t work. I like loops, but it’s nice to be able to turn them off when I want to.

    ‘All Stop’ at the top right of Circa will stop them all even if host sync is on

    Yeah but he (and I) expect it to stop with the host stopping, you shouldn't have to open an app to stop it if you have choosen host sync.

    I was merely suggesting a way of controlling the circles with a controller, it was not a solution for the host sync.

  • skiphuntskiphunt

    @Pxlhg said:

    @skiphunt said:

    @Gavinski said:

    @Mountain_Hamlet said:
    I will add one thing I find really cool with Circa and that is the easy ability to delete a section of a loop. I think this is a nice feature.

    Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that feature, it’s great

    I missed that feature somehow. How do you delete a portion of a loop?

    Hold and release on the eraser button, Doug shows it pretty early in the video (but omit a whole load of other stuff)

    Ah, cool. Thx 🙏

  • GavinskiGavinski

    @Pxlhg said:

    @Gavinski said:

    @Mountain_Hamlet said:
    Out of curiosity, does anybody else experience a situation where loop 1 (the left one) doesn’t stop when the host is stopped? I have it in “sync to host” and it doesn’t seem to want to atop. When I have sync to host turned off I can stop and start it any way I want, but when I turn sync to host on it just keeps playing and the stop buttons don’t work. I like loops, but it’s nice to be able to turn them off when I want to.

    ‘All Stop’ at the top right of Circa will stop them all even if host sync is on

    Yeah but he (and I) expect it to stop with the host stopping, you shouldn't have to open an app to stop it if you have choosen host sync.

    I was merely suggesting a way of controlling the circles with a controller, it was not a solution for the host sync.

    Yeah, it's kinda strange, I guess ppl can email audiodamage if it bothers them and ask why it is not set up to do that

  • PxlhgPxlhg

    @skiphunt said:

    @Pxlhg said:

    @Mountain_Hamlet said:
    Out of curiosity, does anybody else experience a situation where loop 1 (the left one) doesn’t stop when the host is stopped? I have it in “sync to host” and it doesn’t seem to want to atop. When I have sync to host turned off I can stop and start it any way I want, but when I turn sync to host on it just keeps playing and the stop buttons don’t work. I like loops, but it’s nice to be able to turn them off when I want to.

    Yeah, I haven't really come to terms with that function either. I guess setting it up in the modulation section with a foot controller or something might work.
    I just tried using the AUM keys (1 for Play and a 2nd for Stop) and that works, if you wanna do some testing and set it up so it suits you.

    It's a bit annoying you can only use midi learn to determine what CC you want.

    I'm not sure I understand... but one thing that tripped me up with the start/stops was that each loop has a trigger setting, I don't have it in front of me... but it's something like sync, audio, freestyle. It's a setting for each loop and it effects how each respond to play/stop/record

    Sorry, I edited my text several times while testing what I could do, I was referring to this.

  • Robin2Robin2

    @skiphunt said:

    I do appreciate your added info on the template/buttons stuff. I'd forgotten about those very useful control elements :)

    No worries, glad it helped. Cheers.

  • Mountain_HamletMountain_Hamlet

    @Gavinski said:

    @Mountain_Hamlet said:
    Out of curiosity, does anybody else experience a situation where loop 1 (the left one) doesn’t stop when the host is stopped? I have it in “sync to host” and it doesn’t seem to want to atop. When I have sync to host turned off I can stop and start it any way I want, but when I turn sync to host on it just keeps playing and the stop buttons don’t work. I like loops, but it’s nice to be able to turn them off when I want to.

    ‘All Stop’ at the top right of Circa will stop them all even if host sync is on

    No, it doesn’t for me. My fingers have been pressing through the glass and no change. I think it might be related to what @skiphunt mentioned so I will have a look. Thank you @skiphunt for the pointer.

  • GavinskiGavinski

    Difficulty in grabbing the loop start and end points is not a problem for other people? It bugs the crap out of me, I'm surprised not to hear more people mentioning it. If others don't have problems, it might be an issue specific to my setup. Anyone? Can you consistently grab quickly and move the start and end points? Does it sometimes not work? Does it ever cause the playhead to jump unintentionally?

  • Robin2Robin2

    @Gavinski said:
    Difficulty in grabbing the loop start and end points is not a problem for other people? It bugs the crap out of me, I'm surprised not to hear more people mentioning it. If others don't have problems, it might be an issue specific to my setup. Anyone? Can you consistently grab quickly and move the start and end points? Does it sometimes not work? Does it ever cause the playhead to jump unintentionally?

    Just checked. Usually I’m using a Pencil stylus and it generally works quite reliably with the start and end points. Trying just now with fingers though, you’re right, it’s horribly unreliable and frustrating to use.

  • GavinskiGavinski

    @Robin2 said:

    @Gavinski said:
    Difficulty in grabbing the loop start and end points is not a problem for other people? It bugs the crap out of me, I'm surprised not to hear more people mentioning it. If others don't have problems, it might be an issue specific to my setup. Anyone? Can you consistently grab quickly and move the start and end points? Does it sometimes not work? Does it ever cause the playhead to jump unintentionally?

    Just checked. Usually I’m using a Pencil stylus and it generally works quite reliably with the start and end points. Trying just now with fingers though, you’re right, it’s horribly unreliable and frustrating to use.

    It's terrible yes. Pencil is the only reliable way to use it, which is not acceptable. I already reported this on beta and nothing was done, could others please complain if it bothers them, by emailing Audio Damage? Thnx

    Support info is here:
    https://www.audiodamage.com/pages/support

  • oldsynthguyoldsynthguy

    @Gavinski said:
    Difficulty in grabbing the loop start and end points is not a problem for other people? It bugs the crap out of me, I'm surprised not to hear more people mentioning it. If others don't have problems, it might be an issue specific to my setup. Anyone? Can you consistently grab quickly and move the start and end points? Does it sometimes not work? Does it ever cause the playhead to jump unintentionally?

    Yes, very hit and miss for me - sometimes end up scrubbing the audio instead, which is definitely not what I intended to do!

  • skiphuntskiphunt

    @Gavinski said:
    Difficulty in grabbing the loop start and end points is not a problem for other people? It bugs the crap out of me, I'm surprised not to hear more people mentioning it. If others don't have problems, it might be an issue specific to my setup. Anyone? Can you consistently grab quickly and move the start and end points? Does it sometimes not work? Does it ever cause the playhead to jump unintentionally?

    It’s aggravating for sure. It was worse before, but the very last beta update improved it significantly… but only on one side. The other (right) side is still hard to adjust. I think they’re aware of it though, and I’m confident it’ll be remedied soon.

  • becomebecome

    Glad it’s not just my clumsy fingers or aging eyesight…. I play a woodwind, and don’t see myself using something where I have to put down the instrument and pick up a pencil for clip editing - it’s less frustrating to do it in loopy by pulling up the edit panel. Really makes circa a non starter for this kind of use live.

    Re slices in loopy, isn’t that exactly what the clip slicer widget is for? Though it’s not as elegant as having them drawn on the clip itself.

  • CracklePotCracklePot

    Loop markers aren’t too bad for me, but could be more consistent. What really is bothering me is the buggy behavior of Layer 1. The host sync is all screwed up, and if I record something and hit Play to end recording, nothing gets recorded. If I stop recording with Overdub, it does record.

  • mikewbmikewb

    I am having a hard time finding the midi parameter to start a loop. I have tried so many parameters and I can not seem to program a button to start recording.

  • PxlhgPxlhg

    @mikewb said:
    I am having a hard time finding the midi parameter to start a loop. I have tried so many parameters and I can not seem to program a button to start recording.

    I'm not sure I read you right but there must be a sound. You can't start a recording and then play, I think. Also, on the left side there's a setting for 'Trigger Level' that might need adjusting if you have sound but still no recording.

  • GavinskiGavinski

    @mikewb said:
    I am having a hard time finding the midi parameter to start a loop. I have tried so many parameters and I can not seem to program a button to start recording.

    I think you need to set that up in the app itself, see the Modulation section of the manual:

    https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1550/9885/files/Circa_1.0_Manual.pdf

  • CracklePotCracklePot

    @mikewb said:
    I am having a hard time finding the midi parameter to start a loop. I have tried so many parameters and I can not seem to program a button to start recording.

    You may have to use the internal modulations control in the lower panel area. There are many destinations in there related to REC/PB/OD/TRIG. But I don’t see them in the exposed AU parameters.

  • eylvyeylvy

  • mikewbmikewb

    Thank you all very much! I guess I just needed to RTFM. I appreciate pointing me in the right direction!

  • espiegel123espiegel123

    @UrbanNinja said:

    @wim said:
    Loopy Pro is my number one app and I know a lot about it. But I wouldn't bother trying to replicate something that already does what Circa does smoothly and without a bunch of head-scratching on my part. I don't see the point.

    Making music and exploring a new tool sounds like a lot more fun than messing around with widgets, actions, bindings and a bunch of other stuff to me. 😎

    @wim said:
    Loopy Pro is my number one app and I know a lot about it. But I wouldn't bother trying to replicate something that already does what Circa does smoothly and without a bunch of head-scratching on my part. I don't see the point.

    Making music and exploring a new tool sounds like a lot more fun than messing around with widgets, actions, bindings and a bunch of other stuff to me. 😎

    Even if difficult in the short term Loopy users could work out a particular function and save it as a Functional Template.
    Next time you just click the Template and you are in business.

    Pxlhg said:
    "I despise Loopy and have given up totally, yeah I removed it the other day despite being up to date. I don't care, that app makes me feel like I'm a fucking moron every time I try it and (it might be right) I'm tired of that - Circa is exactly what I wanted to use loopy for, you know, like a guitar loop station (e.g Boss). Hopefully we can get bugs ironed out so it works in a solid manner."
    "in my world the words, easy and Loopy don't belong together 😃)."

    Lol, I feel your pain. Depth is good and simplicity is good.

    There is so much depth in Loopy to do a multitude of things it's not hard for us to forget what particular menu diving is needed to achieve some particular compound-constructed function.

    Being able to grab an app and go and achieve a certain kind of result without much fuss is worth an extra dollar even if another app can achieve the same workflow with a bucketful more of sweat and blood.

    Musicians do want functionality but they also want streamlined workflows. They want to sit down and compose/produce, not to fiddle all day and chase unaccredited PhDs in deep menu diving dozens of apps. The cost of doing business though is everyone has to do that to some degree.

    Maybe there is an answer to that for Loopy -e.g. the Dev could provide Functional Templates as presets ideally suited to different kinds of applications, most specifically for Templates which could make easy some ideal use large populations of users ask about again and again by email etc. but have a hard time pulling off without fiddling unduly with menus and functions.

    By the time we are done with all that we are in our Left Hemisphere and musical artistic inspiration characteristic of the Right Hemisphere is lost to us for the rest of a session.

    Lack of complexity can be just as frustrating as lack of simplicity -the lack of either in an app can lead to different kinds of frustration, and there is a lot of value to the complex capabilities that can be wrested out of LoopyP if we are game for the cost.

    But yea, I'm glad to see something like Circa come out and hope to have some fun with it this week.

    @Robin2 said:

    Yes, i completely agree. Templates, or even better, widgets which are already set up to do specific tasks so you don’t have to hook everything up behind the scenes, just apply them. I think that would help a great deal. @Michael?

    As i said before, Loopy is an extraordinary app, but there’s no denying its complexity and the frustration which comes with that.

    @UrbanNinja, @Robin2 et al in this part of the thread:

    There is a growing library of ready-made projects on PatchStorage:

    https://patchstorage.com/platform/loopy-pro/

    Some of those projects are ready-to-go and be used and some are projects to crib ideas from. 2.0 has some better sample projects that cover some common workflows -- and those will expand over time. There will also eventually be a browsable template library -- but those things take time to put together.

    I won't steal any more time from this thread -- but if the problem for getting started is lack of ready-to-go templates -- create a thread describing what you want/need. I've posted a number of projects on patch storage that grew out of a particular request.

  • Robin2Robin2

    @espiegel123 said:

    @UrbanNinja said:

    @wim said:
    Loopy Pro is my number one app and I know a lot about it. But I wouldn't bother trying to replicate something that already does what Circa does smoothly and without a bunch of head-scratching on my part. I don't see the point.

    Making music and exploring a new tool sounds like a lot more fun than messing around with widgets, actions, bindings and a bunch of other stuff to me. 😎

    @wim said:
    Loopy Pro is my number one app and I know a lot about it. But I wouldn't bother trying to replicate something that already does what Circa does smoothly and without a bunch of head-scratching on my part. I don't see the point.

    Making music and exploring a new tool sounds like a lot more fun than messing around with widgets, actions, bindings and a bunch of other stuff to me. 😎

    Even if difficult in the short term Loopy users could work out a particular function and save it as a Functional Template.
    Next time you just click the Template and you are in business.

    Pxlhg said:
    "I despise Loopy and have given up totally, yeah I removed it the other day despite being up to date. I don't care, that app makes me feel like I'm a fucking moron every time I try it and (it might be right) I'm tired of that - Circa is exactly what I wanted to use loopy for, you know, like a guitar loop station (e.g Boss). Hopefully we can get bugs ironed out so it works in a solid manner."
    "in my world the words, easy and Loopy don't belong together 😃)."

    Lol, I feel your pain. Depth is good and simplicity is good.

    There is so much depth in Loopy to do a multitude of things it's not hard for us to forget what particular menu diving is needed to achieve some particular compound-constructed function.

    Being able to grab an app and go and achieve a certain kind of result without much fuss is worth an extra dollar even if another app can achieve the same workflow with a bucketful more of sweat and blood.

    Musicians do want functionality but they also want streamlined workflows. They want to sit down and compose/produce, not to fiddle all day and chase unaccredited PhDs in deep menu diving dozens of apps. The cost of doing business though is everyone has to do that to some degree.

    Maybe there is an answer to that for Loopy -e.g. the Dev could provide Functional Templates as presets ideally suited to different kinds of applications, most specifically for Templates which could make easy some ideal use large populations of users ask about again and again by email etc. but have a hard time pulling off without fiddling unduly with menus and functions.

    By the time we are done with all that we are in our Left Hemisphere and musical artistic inspiration characteristic of the Right Hemisphere is lost to us for the rest of a session.

    Lack of complexity can be just as frustrating as lack of simplicity -the lack of either in an app can lead to different kinds of frustration, and there is a lot of value to the complex capabilities that can be wrested out of LoopyP if we are game for the cost.

    But yea, I'm glad to see something like Circa come out and hope to have some fun with it this week.

    @Robin2 said:

    Yes, i completely agree. Templates, or even better, widgets which are already set up to do specific tasks so you don’t have to hook everything up behind the scenes, just apply them. I think that would help a great deal. @Michael?

    As i said before, Loopy is an extraordinary app, but there’s no denying its complexity and the frustration which comes with that.

    @UrbanNinja, @Robin2 et al in this part of the thread:

    There is a growing library of ready-made projects on PatchStorage:

    https://patchstorage.com/platform/loopy-pro/

    Some of those projects are ready-to-go and be used and some are projects to crib ideas from. 2.0 has some better sample projects that cover some common workflows -- and those will expand over time. There will also eventually be a browsable template library -- but those things take time to put together.

    I won't steal any more time from this thread -- but if the problem for getting started is lack of ready-to-go templates -- create a thread describing what you want/need. I've posted a number of projects on patch storage that grew out of a particular request.

    Thanks @espiegel123. Yes, I’m aware of the template projects on Patch Storage and very useful they are too.

    The only problem with templates is that you get the whole template whereas you may only want one particular feature set up within that template.

    What i was suggesting though was some sort of prefabricated, pre-hooked up widgets for common functions which were available within the app. As such, the user would only have to define the clip/s those functions would be applied to and adjust specific parameter settings (as they would in any effect) rather than hooking everything up behind the scenes from scratch which, like it or not, is clearly confusing and a huge turn off for many users.

    Then, expert users like yourself could perhaps set up bespoke widgets for specific functions and share them on Patch Storage. That’s kind of what is needed - a way to package together widgets and specific functions/setups and share them so they can be used by anyone without loading a full project template. Similar, i guess, to how Drambo modules can be set up and saved as racks…ready to be shared on Patch Storage and used by anyone.

    The challenge for Loopy Pro and for @Michael, as far as i can see, is to somehow make its extraordinary versatility more accessible. I absolutely accept that as users we need to invest time into learning software to get the most out of it but having read many, many Loopy specific enquiries posted here on the forum, it is clear that lots of people do find it very difficult to set things up within it. It needs a built in version of yourself, @espiegel123, always available for anyone to ask, ‘How do i do this?’!

  • electronicsfordogselectronicsfordogs

    Hi all,
    for those who are encountering non-stopable loops: there's a per-loop sync setting.
    When you start Circa for the first time, the left loop is not set to 'sync'.
    That did the trick for me.
    cheers

  • OverreachOverreach

    Anyone know if this will ever come to iPhone?

  • Mountain_HamletMountain_Hamlet

    @electronicsfordogs said:
    Hi all,
    for those who are encountering non-stopable loops: there's a per-loop sync setting.
    When you start Circa for the first time, the left loop is not set to 'sync'.
    That did the trick for me.
    cheers

    Thanks for sharing.

  • GavinskiGavinski

    @electronicsfordogs said:
    Hi all,
    for those who are encountering non-stopable loops: there's a per-loop sync setting.
    When you start Circa for the first time, the left loop is not set to 'sync'.
    That did the trick for me.
    cheers

    Nice one!

  • timfromthebordertimfromtheborder

    Just picked it up. I love Audio Damage’s interface design, and Circa is no exception, it’s gorgeous. Took no time at all to get some loops going. Super fun, super creative. I think this will get a lot of use. Sure, I could build something similar in Loopy Pro, but it would be a lot of work. This is focused on a particular thing and it does it really well.

  • Mountain_HamletMountain_Hamlet

    It now stops, but it doesn’t start until I trigger it with a sound. I guess there’s another button somewhere for this. 🤷‍♂️

  • electronicsfordogselectronicsfordogs

    @Mountain_Hamlet
    Did you tap "play all" before starting the host?
    The playback controls in Circa behave different than expected, they are more like status controls.
    If a layers status is 'playing', it follows the host, if it's status is stopped it is stopped, independend from the host.
    It works exactly as written in the manual for me.
    Btw. - be patient, all start/stop activity is allways quantized to the next bar.

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