Today the long-missing manual for Curtis for iPad has finally found its way to our site. Hopefully this clarifies any obscurities in the interface. We’ve long wondered about all those buttons and sliders.
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So that’s what that does!
Friday, April 29th, 2011Terrible .2′s
Friday, April 8th, 2011Performance recording just got released with Curtis for iPad 2.2, and it’s queued up and awaiting approval with CP 1919 version 1.2 along with a slew of nifty additions and the odd bug fix. We’re eagerly awaiting the release, but in the meantime, here’s a preview:
Curtis Control
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011New in 2011, Curtis 2.1 adds a keyboard along with XY pads for even better touch control! Turn any recorded sound into a synthesizer!
The keyboard controls the grain cycle length to match standard twelve-tone tuning. However, the content of the source sound file at the current time point along with other parameters will determine the pitchiness of the sound heard. When the time point is static, Curtis behaves like a wavetable synth. When you pinch to create a grain range or apply the time LFO, things get.. stranger.
Two new XY pads control pitch and time LFO’s for still more wonk. The horizontal axis controls LFO frequency, while the vertical controls its depth. One wiggles the source point in the audio file, the other wiggles grain size, which in many cases corresponds to pitch.
We also gave the interface a twice-over, greatly improving multi-touch performance. Now you can apply all kinds of fingers and toes to the sound mangling craft.
We hope you’ll enjoy these new additions!
- • keyboard control for chromatic mode
- • pitch and position LFO modulation
- • much multi-touchier
- • improved pitch slew behavior
Curtis turns 2.0
Monday, November 8th, 2010We’re eminently pleased to announce the 2.0 release of Curtis today, with some great new features:
- • All new user interface
- • Amplitude envelope
- • Scratch mode
- • Chromatic pitch quantize
We think this edition is a great improvement over the last. It’s far more musical, with chromatic quantize snapping the grain pitch to actual notes. A fantastic idea from Sleazy! The new amplitude envelope greatly extends usability and expressivity, so Curtis doesn’t perpetually sound, but can now be played like a more traditional instrument. Controls have all been surfaced, so there is no longer a need to flip down a hidden panel. The scratch mode we were playing around with some months ago has been incorporated as well. A big thanks to the users who wrote with suggestions, ideas, and demands!
Curtis updates big and small
Friday, October 22nd, 2010A 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.
Curtis gets Devine
Monday, August 30th, 2010The latest installment of Curtis, version 1.1, is up on the iTunes Store. We’re extra excited about this one, as Richard Devine has been kind enough to create an incredible sound scape for the app. We could hardly think of a better way to glitch bliss on Curtis!
New in this release:
- exclusive Richard Devine sound set
- pitch control
- echo effect
- volume control
- mp3 import