Archive for the ‘Curtis’ Category

Curtis 1.2, so much louder!

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

We tweaked the Curtis audio routings to pump sound out of the main speaker rather than the earpiece. So.. happy.. now..

Pending potential bug fixes (never say never), that wraps up Curtis Lite. Rather than spring a whole new beast on our users, we’d like to roll out the Heavy features as we build them. At the same time, we would like to keep a Lite (or even Free) version around. So, in order to reward our early adopters, Curtis Lite will morph into Curtis Heavy at the next update. At this point, the Heavy price will go up and a Lite or Free version may come out.

Mouthful? The short version: if you own Curtis Lite, you get Heavy for free. The sooner you buy in, the cheaper the price.

Create Digital Music

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Curtis made an appearance on our favorite music blog yesterday!

A recurring feature request seems to be adding the ability to load audio into Curtis. Any suggestions regarding how this should work? Apple keeps us locked out of your music library, so the most obvious (and fun?) option is out. Creating a desktop synchronization client is out of the question for such a cheap app. We’re eager to hear your thoughts on this as well as any other feature requests!

Curtis + thumb piano

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

The internet is kind to Curtis. It (and Marcus) bring us this great post of Curtis doing its do to a thumb piano.

140 / curtis + thumb piano from m~fischer on Vimeo.

Curtis SMOOTH n LITE edition coming

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

In a week or two expect to see Curtis version 1.1 with:

- improved synthesis engine for much smoother sound when scrubbing or skipping around
- slew mode indicator showing one of 4 slew modes
- natural speed linear position slew
- exponential grain-size slew

Curtis vs radio extended demo

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Curtis vs radio demo

Curtis granular synthesizer is finally live on the App Store! Here’s a medley of tweaks to live radio recordings.

Or check out the iPhone-friendly YouTube version.

Curtis is live!

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Download yours from the App Store! Or see it in action. You can record any sound with your iPhone microphone, and then use the recording as a basis for your real-time granular jams.

Take a look in Wikipedia for more background on Granular Synthesis in general. Also, here is a great interview with Curtis Roads, one of the progenitors of digital granular synthesis, to whom we pay homage with our app name. Still more curious? Then we recommend the grand tome, Microsound.