The Strange Agency » CurtisHeavy http://thestrangeagency.com Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:30:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Strange Solstice http://thestrangeagency.com/strange-solstice/ http://thestrangeagency.com/strange-solstice/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:30:46 +0000 lucas http://thestrangeagency.com/?p=814 In desperate love with our iPads, we left the iPhone apps languishing unmaintained. They don’t copy or paste, they don’t play well with others, they’re all still rocking 3G. Yet, they still tweak sounds quite strangely, and so gentle(ladies and)men, we will rebuild them!

This holiday season we’re cooking up a whole new series of strange toys for the iPhone, and when we launch in the months to come, the current crop will have to go. As of today, the free sample versions of our paid iPhone apps have been axed.

How can you get some strange samples, you ask? We’ve made the paid apps free!

Slice beat-juggling freakout is free!
Curtis Heavy granular glitchfest is free!
Sound Scope Space wave sculpting is free!
Spoke rhythm massage is free!

See you next year :)

]]> http://thestrangeagency.com/strange-solstice/feed/ 1 Curtis updates big and small http://thestrangeagency.com/curtis-updates-big-and-small/ http://thestrangeagency.com/curtis-updates-big-and-small/#comments Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:49:00 +0000 lucas http://thestrangeagency.com/?p=624 A couple Curtis updates just appeared on the App Store. On the iPhone, Curtis Heavy now uses file sharing through iTunes, ditching the peculiar browser upload. It still uses the first four seconds of your WAV file. Curtis on the iPad has had some major memory fixes, so it handles large files far better than before. Great news, finally enabling crash-free access to the awesome included library by Richard Devine. Sorry it took so long! Enjoy the grains.

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Meanwhile, the ability to save your recordings is on the way. They will be accessible through the same browser interface, so you can move them to your computer as well.

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Dig some videos of Curtis Heavy in action here and here.

We opted for the embedded server approach: turn on the Curtis server, log in via web browser, post WAV files through a form. Currently 16-bit 44.1kHz WAV files a few seconds long are supported. Only the first 4 seconds are used. Yes, this is limiting, but it gets the functionality in your hands sooner than later.

Current Curtis owners might see an adrollo file in the audio file list. This is a vestigial data file from the original build. It probably doesn’t sound so good. We’ll see about having it whacked.

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