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Stompwatch and Live Guitar are now available
Folks -- we just released one new app, and a major reboot of another. Stompwatch is a virtual MIDI pedal board (we're working on a programmer for the FCB 1010, and this is sort of a side project). It has ten pages, ten pads each, and you can program them easily for chords, notes, or MIDI CC and PC messages. It has support for Audiobus, and works with AB Remote. You can also use it with Apple Watch (and in case you didn't know, Apple includes a guitar mounting strap with the Watch -- you don't have to pay extra for it).
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stompwatch/id1016268593?mt=8
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Live Guitar is a major reboot -- it has hundreds of SoundFont sounds (the same library as bs-16i), and supports both straight-forward chord constructions, and also a guitar fretboard interface for getting chord structures (and whatever else) you might want from a guitar in standard tuning. I play a lot with open strings and odd chord suspensions, and wanted to have that flexibility. The chord selection method is different from what you might find in a lot of other apps; quickly and accurately switch between 15 different chords, without having to be hunched over, staring at the screen. Note velocity is based on touch location, so it's easy to play expressively. Sets of chords can be shared using Twitter.
MIDI support includes channel-per-string mapping, so you can directly transcribe into Jam Maestro, GuitarPro, and so on.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/live-guitar/id434828118?ls=1&mt=8
If you guys could pull off a programmer for the FCB1010 for the iPad, that would be some word that has not even been invented yet. We would have to create a new word to describe the awesomeness.
The FCB programmer is pretty close to done. Should be out this summer. Universal, so you can use an iPhone with it.
And most importantly, if you've got the iPhone hooked up, you can use Apollo MIDI over Bluetooth to relay MIDI from the FCB to an iPad....
And here's a video for Stompwatch....
I've wanted that Behringer foot pedal deal for awhile but I keep blowing my money on apps, now I am inspired to save
Stompwatch, perfect, I love it! Yet another reason for the RemoFinger!
@SecretBaseDesign I'm getting response from pads in app, but not from AB Remote. Am I missing something? Thanks.
Let me further clarify. The program change works fine, just getting no sound when tapping first row of pads. Thanks.
Double awesomeness hallelujah! Live Guitar is gonna be great and extra points for the name Stompwatch! Finally a use for that watch thing. Plus any thread with @Patrick and @mgmg4871 in it has to be looked into. Bus legends both.
@mgmg4871 -- there should be two groups of pads -- the first ten are the "page", while the next 10 are the actual pads. You can configure the app to handle up to ten different MIDI destinations, each with ten pads.
For example, you might set up the first page to control Loopy, the second presets in Flux:FX, and so on -- tap the page number you want to work on, and then pick from any of the presets.
Also -- when you've got a note or chord set up for a pad -- the pad will toggle on or off if you're using a Bluetooth QWERTY keyboard or AB Remote.
Let me know if this makes thing work as expected -- it's entirely possible that there's a glitch, though. I had the app sitting at Apple, waiting for review -- and then AB Remote was released. It was painfully obvious that the match was like peanut butter and chocolate, so I took the app out of the review pipeline, spliced in support for remote, and then sent it back out. In my testing, the only problems I've encountered are with remote itself not connecting all the time (I suspect iBeacon), but I have not seen anything weird with Stompwatch.
@NoiseHorse -- thanks! Live Guitar has been on the back burner for about two years. Finally got off my duff, and did the reboot; a lot closer to what I originally wanted to make.
@NoiseHorse You're too kind. Really! Lol. @SecretBaseDesign, everything appears to be working except the the sound from the first group of pads in AB remote. Hopefully someone else can confirm whether it's a glitch, or just my setup. Thanks.
btw the pages do not switch either from AB Remote.
Hmmm -- I'll dig into this.
Ooohhh -- hang on. The chords and notes that are triggered from the Bluetooth keyboard or from AB Remote will have the velocity assigned when you chose the chord or note -- the right most column of the dialog where you choose the chord is velocity. If it's at zero (the default), you won't hear anything. Can you check that?
The page that you're on in the app doesn't switch when you choose a different page in AB remote -- so it's possible to use the app and the remote at the same time, and talk to two different destinations.....
Same thing with the Watch. You can have the app in the foreground, and tap on the screen or use the BT keyboard -- that all goes to one destination. Remote can go to a second destination, the Watch to a third.
That did it. Thanks. One more issue now is constant sustain. Guess note off is not working from AB remote.
Awesome! AFAIK, with the current Audiobus SDK, the triggers can tell the app that they've been pressed, but not released -- so you have to toggle things on and off (that's true with the BT keyboard as well). I'm sure that Michael could modify this (or point me to where it's already available); I'll give him a nudge on the developers forum, because being able to tell on and off would be handy.
It actually seems pretty well within the realm of the possible to have sliders, xy pads, and so on, in AB Remote. The next release of Stompwatch will add in a couple of programmable sliders on the app, and I may be able to use the crown on the Apple Watch in that manner.
Many thanks @SBD. Awesome app.
So cool! I was wondering which one of our favorite devs would churn out the first watch app. Congrats @SecretBaseDesign !
AB Remote can react on touch down and touch up (and more). It's in the documentation. The sample app (ab sender) also does it.
Ahh -- cool -- not surprised that it's possible, just didn't look close enough. I'll see what other issues come up, and then fix the toggling from AB Remote in the next update....
Really liking Stompwatch. Especially that you can control Loopy on one page then play a synth etc on another. A few requests - is it possible to have more pads per page on the iPad? Not too many of course, maybe 16? Also, it would be good to scroll through the notes by octave, to speed up the selection process? One more - at the moment you have to let go of the pad and then press another. It would great to trigger pads with a slide, as in ChordPolyPad? Thanks
Moving on to LiveGuitar, which again is great! Strum mode seems to be hold, which is good for apps that naturally decay, but not so good for string apps etc. I noticed that the colour changes from darker to lighter after strummed, but it would be good if this was reflected in a sound decay. Maybe an adjustable release slider? The alternative is to adjust the hold on Touch mode? Thanks again
@Sebastian -- thanks! I didn't spend a lot of time looking, and I guess I'm not surprised it's there! Kudos for the design of the API -- it literally took a couple of hours to splice in support for AB Remote, and it seemed like a perfect pairing.
@Fitz -- there should be an update to Stompwatch not too far off (with a 1.0, I'm figuring there will be a number of fixes). I'll take care of the Audiobus Remote issue, add in the ability to swipe, and I was planning on having dual page support -- so 20 pads on the screen, where you can view two different pages (like, suppose you have Loopy controlled with one, and have chords and notes sent a synth with the other...).
For LG -- it's hard to tell how a note is decaying (particularly if I'm sending out a MIDI note). I'll think about an automatic release slider, but I'm not sure it makes sense -- my preference is for the user to decide when to lift up a finger (if the synth tone doesn't decay naturally). I will be adding a spot to mute individual strings, so if it's ringing, you can kill it that way.
So much to do, so much to do....
@SecretBaseDesign, fair enough. I think it's more an issue with what it's controlling. It's all good enough as is, and if we ask for more it only reflects on how useful a tool it is.
Live Guitar 2.1 should be updating now -- had a bug that caused the UI on the iPhone 6 Plus to go haywire.
And Stompwatch 1.1 is waiting for review -- should be out in a few days. Fixed a bug with MIDI CC messages, added in support to have up and down presses with Audiobus Remote (thanks, @Sebastian!), and you can also configure the CC pads to track touch position (so you can use them to adjust continuous controllers).
The FCB 1010 editor is waiting for review too. The FCB 1010 is sort of like Stompwatch, except it's from Behringer, and it sits on the floor, you can step on it, it has ten pedals and two expression pedals, and it used to be really hard to program. If you've got an old surplus phone, you can use it to program the FCB 1010, then turn on Apollo, and you've got yourself a slick wireless MIDI foot controller. Or if you've been thinking about getting a 1010, and want to see what you could control with it, the app will do that too.
Another Music IO update should be coming up shortly; maybe a week or two or so. With some new VSTs, something special for the Mac users, and something different and special for the PC users.
But wait, there's more!
Two more things are nearing completion, and another two might still happen this summer. I've had a stack of projects that have been 90% done for the past two years. This summer, I've got a lot of free time, and I'm burning through things quickly. Lots of fun hacking on stuff. This has been a most excellent summer!
Mostly looking forward to touch position in Stompwatch, but it all sounds great! Thanks for the update @SecretBaseDesign.
I want to lay my ipad on the floor & use Stompwatch with my toes but I feel the risk is too high.
I'll just leave this here, in case you were wondering if there was something that you could put on the floor, and use with your toes. Or that you could bust open and wire up differently, if you were so inclined.
http://www.amazon.com/iCade-Arcade-Controller-iPad2-ICG05/dp/B008BGY2I6/ref=pd_sim_422_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=0G7Z8RVHK4TMQ7WF28ST