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MegaCurtis FREE

Friday, May 4th, 2012

They said it was only a matter of time. They were right. The Curtis saga continues with the release of MegaCurtis FREE. This version brings the MegaCurtis multi-voice, audio-paste, longer-recording, dynamic-keyboard glory to your iPhone 3GS, 4, and 4S for nothing!

 

But wait, there’s more: Curtis Heavy has been transmogrified into MegaCurtis FREE, so those of you that already own Curtis Heavy need only update to get this slew of new features. (Did we mention slew? There’s now portamento in every copy!) Also, to keep change-averse Curtis Heavy customers from getting grumpy, both the free and paid versions of MegaCurtis now also get a pitch-control mode (optionally activated in the settings panel in the paid version) that mimics the horizontal-swipe-to-pitch (i.e. grain size) mapping of Curtis Heavy. We hope this makes everyone feel that they’ve only gained!

 

Switching to the paid version gives you these added features:

 

• MIDI input
• Performance recording (record and share your MegaCurtis jams)
• Modal Scales (cool keyboard presets)
• Low-pass filter
• Echo
• Position modulation
• Position jitter
• Unique wave keyboard mode (play keys while touching the recording)
• Grain jitter
• Grain overlap control with modulation

Mega Update, MegaCurtis 1.3

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

The latest MegaCurtis update has gone live at the App Store. It adds a slew of new features, making the app more fun, more playable, and more strange. There are now selectable scales and modes, a fat key option for those of us with fat fingers, and there’s a new wave keyboard overlay mode that lets you play by touching the wave, selecting pitch and granulation position simultaneously, with four-voice multi-touch. Check out the video below to see it in action!


MegaCurtis v 1.3 from strange agency on Vimeo.


  • Selectable keyboard scales for easier jams
  • All new keyboard overlay mode
  • Fat keys option for easier keyboard playing
  • Fixes voice assignment glitch
  • Fixes occasional deallocation of source sound
  • Adds some default sounds
  • Activates iTunes file sharing

Strange Solstice

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

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 :)

Happy Tweaking

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

All new versions of Curtis and CP 1919 have hit the app store. These include stability improvements for Curtis along with Dropbox support for CP 1919. Update away!

Supreme Harmony Voyage

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

After a long trek through Asia and a still longer period of post-travel decompression we’re back in the saddle with a bunch of announcements.

The addition of our Comlink interface which provides Copy/Paste and now Dropbox support to Curtis introduced some memory issues which lead to frequent crashes. These have been addressed in a new build submitted to Apple today. Look for the update soon!

The Comlink has been added to CP 1919 as well, so that means in the next update you’ll not only get Copy/Paste and Dropbox support but also a CP 1919 manual. Check the link to sneak a peek at the new interface design! It’s on the way through the app approval process now. Also, to ease your wait, the price has been lowered to $9.99.

Up next, Donut improvements.

And finally, thanks Steve :)

Thanks Steve!

Curtis is down with ACP

Friday, July 15th, 2011

We’re traveling a lot this summer, so development is a trickle, but we do have quite a lot brewing. We’ve finally added Intua-style Audio Copy/Paste to Curtis. It’s the top-ranked feature request, so this update should please a lot of users! We also worked in a browser, allowing you to view the user manual right from within the app.

At the same time CP 1919 got some orientation tweaks. The upcoming release defaults to standard app behavior and flips the whole screen around when you rotate your iPad. If you prefer the old style, it’s available via application settings, as is a new reverse mode if your iPad case if different from mine. Cool!?

Both app updates will be ported to their respective other.

In other news, we’re steadily porting Slice to iPad as well as exploring some future possibilities, like neural network sequencing.