moodscaper

• Added support for IAA (Inter-App Audio) - moodscaper appears as a generator • Effects on / off status saved between sessions

· Moodscaper is now a universal app which runs on both iPhone and iPad · Improved use of stereo imaging for a more immersive sound · Additional variations in auto-play · Some small fixes and under-the-hood improvements · Includes user manual (via iTunes File Sharing in moodscaper Documents) When running on the iPhone, the interface and functionality is unchanged. When running on iPad, the following new features are available: · Two additional effects – an extra delay and a low pass filter · Two additional loopers · Filter, delays and reverb easily tweaked with a single per-effect parameter slider · Master volume (pre-effects) slider - convenient and nice for ambient swells · Effects and volume settings saved between sessions · Effects tweaks and volume changes can be recorded in loops – great fun with the filter! · Additional 20 instrument user keys which can also be recorded in loops · New user keys come pre-loaded with mood-based samples (60 in total) · Ability to add your your own samples to user keys (via iTunes file sharing / Apple CAF files) · Multiple samples assigned to a user key will be randomly selected Sorry if your “must have” thing hasn’t made it into this release. Still lots of new features and enhancements planned for moodscaper – please stay tuned, and thanks for all the encouragement so far!

Quick bug fix for an issue with the key pad introduced in 1.6 where notes would very occasionally not sound. Sorry about that!

· New sad mood based on Em pentatonic scale · Added WAV file support for user samples · Added option to use user samples only · Auto-play generative engine tweaks · In auto-play, current mood is shown – shady circle was confusing · A few other small enhancements and fixes

· Load your own samples to create entirely new custom instruments (iPad *and* iPhone) · A few small "under the hood" improvements Please note that the user-sample naming convention has changed slightly since v1.8 so please do refer to the manual. Demo sample sets will be available at moodscaper.com Coming up next, you asked for it - MIDI out in v2.0.

This is an interim release before v2.0. It basically contains a few things that were already implemented, but didn't quite make it into v1.9 because they were un-tested: · Voices are now randomly "stacked" for more variation and a bigger, more dramatic sound! · Key "hints" are displayed on notes that should sound good when the root note changes · Small tweaks to auto-play I've also created a downloadable expanded demo instrument called "massive mellow modular" to showcase the new voice stacking feature. The demo contains 300 sounds and is available as a free download on moodscaper.com. Instructions for loading it into the app (via iTunes) are in the manual which also can be found on the website, along with audio and video demos. Thanks for all the support so far - much appreciated! For anyone still waiting for their "must have" feature, please keep in mind that priorities and new features are 80-90% user-driven and I'm just one guy working through a list of things in user-suggested priority order. Subject to change, the priority of the top 5 feature requests currently looks something like this: support for... MIDI out, Link, AudioUnit, AudioShare, AudioBus. Sorry if you're special thing isn't higher in the list - I hope to get to it eventually.

Quick fix for sluggish instrument keypad response.

Improved Inter-App Audio (IAA) stability.

· Effects and additional keypad included in iPhone (previously iPad only) · Volume slider also controls "dynamics" for more dramatic or mellower moodscapes! · Minor "under the hood" enhancements and fixes For more info, please refer to the manual at moodscaper.com

Fixes: Improved IAA stability on iOS 10 Headphones issue on iPhone / iOS 10 Tweaks: Auto-loop population respects dynamic level (also during auto-play) Stopping master looper resets voice auto-accompaniment Under the hood: iOS 10 compatibility Swift codebase fully migrated to v3.0

Hello - just a little update mostly relating to the generative side of moodscaper: · Auto-play loops now include dynamic variations so different loops are selected if dynamics change during auto-play. · Voice auto-accompaniment now sub-divides note lengths from loop root note events when complexity > medium. · Note hints vary for complexity > medium. · Realtime auto-accompaniment for bass and chord playing - just start playing, and moodscaper will play notes in-between yours! · Minor tweaks and performance improvements. If you'd like to share your thoughts on moodscaper, please do consider taking the time to leave a review in the App Store - it really does help people decide if they might enjoy the app as I hope you do, and it is very much appreciated - thanks!

· Fix for "questionable notes" auto-accompaniment / play bug introduced in v1.9.6 - sorry about that! · Key pad optimisation

* New “happy” mood based on major pentatonic scale :-) * Slider effect changes - audio response now smoother / less stuttering * Finally tracked down autoplay middle voice dissonant note issue - yay! * Small fixes to control graphics on iPad Pro * Optimised some old sub-optimal optimisations

* Timer added - set the desired time using the slider and moodscaper will stop playing when the timer expires. * Sympathetic keys control - varies the probability (from never to always) of the additional keypad playing in sympathy with the main one. If you’ve mostly been using the app in auto-play mode then you should hear some (hopefully) pleasing new sounds! * Minor tweaks to generative and audio engines. As with the other effects type controls, the slider beneath the highlighted effect changes its value. Please note that this now means the total number of loopers available is reduced from 5 to 3. I’d really like to know if that’s a big deal for anyone, so please do let me know via the moodscaper.com contact form if it is, and I’ll try and work out a solution for you in a future release. In the meantime, hope you can get by with 3 loopers, and don’t forget that you can overdub on top of existing loop recordings. Hope you like the new features and sorry there haven’t been any updates in a while - sometimes life gets busy! :-) -Rob

Fixes: When sympathetic control is at the minimum setting, the additional keypad is *not* updated when bass or chord root note is changed. Additional custom mood sounds are added to the in-built ones - previously they replaced them. Changes: Reverb and delay buttons now share the same position in the UI. Tapping the button toggles between delay and reverb. Please note that the delay and reverb are still both active and independent. This is purely a UI layout change. Due to user feedback, one of the loopers we lost in the previous update is back. I still don’t think this is an ideal solution, but hopefully it’s a little step in the right direction while I figure out how to handle multiple loopers more elegantly. Thanks for all the feedback, and sorry about the reduction in loopers! Please note there is an updated quick-start guide at moodscaper.com that will hopefully get you going with the new features. And finally... really sorry this v2.0.0 update isn't a bit more exciting! I basically ran out of 1.9.x numbers. Hopefully some more interesting updates coming before too long.

Added random automation to dynamics and sympathetic controls during auto-play for some extra subtle variation.

Fixed issue relating to screen orientation changes not being handled properly.

Random stuff! Added more playback randomisation - this should be noticeable on longer evolving chord and effect sounds. You may even hear some things you haven’t heard before! Hope you like this little tweak. *** Special note if you create and import your own sounds *** Please note that by default, sounds will not play from the beginning of the file - the starting point is randomised. If you want certain sounds to always play from the beginning, or “frame zero” you need to include a special tag in the filename “pff0” (play from frame zero). For example: “01-one-small-step-pff0.caf”.

IAA stability improvements.

Fix (more of a workaround really...) for device orientation messing up layout due to changed APIs (sorry, this has been broken for ages) User sample import no longer supported - (sorry, it's complicated, but I didn't break it...) Updated support URL - so you can let me know about broken things ;-)