Audiovapor Kits

Submitted by Rej - Dev on

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If you've ever pressed the "Get More" button from any of the preset browsers in Caustic, you'll have seen Audiovapor's kits. If you haven't taken the time to download the demos kits yet, I encourage you to do so right now.

Audiovapor has put together some of the biggest Caustic expansion kits you can find on Google Play and are offering them for next to nothing. The sheer number of PCMSynth and BeatBox presets contained in the "Substance" packs means you've got almost any style of electronic music covered. Each preset and kit was made and tweaked specifically for use in Caustic. I wish I had access to these when I first launched the app...

Check 'em out, there's a demo video showing them off on their website:
Audiovapor's Kits for Caustic

Share your Caustic Presets!

Submitted by mike on

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Along with the community packs and expansion packs available on the markets out there, Single Cell Software's site now offers the community the ability to add their own original Subsynth and PCMSynth presets right on the site.

Once a preset is added, other community members are welcome to comment on the presets using the comment form below the preset page.

To add your preset on the site, you must be a registered user of Single Cell Software and be logged in to your account. To disallow hotlinks and preset mining from less credible sites, you must also be an authenticated user to download a preset file. Any one browsing the site anonymously can view the presets.

Steps to add a preset;

  • Login into your account.
  • From the right side bar, select Add content
  • Select Caustic Preset
  • Fill in the Preset Name with your unique preset name.
  • Fill in the Preset Description with information for others to read about anything interesting you found while creating it.
  • Upload an optional screenshot of the Preset. This is optional since some users may not be able to take screen shots from their devices. The admin might do this for them since it's always nice for people browsing to actually see the dials and how they affect the sound.
  • Upload the Preset File from you computer or device. This will vary for different users but subsynth and pcmsynth are the only allowed file types.
  • Select the Preset Type, the radio group defaults to subsynth.
  • Click Save and help the Casutic preset community grow!

I'm sure Rej will be considering great presets for future inclusions to community packs. By donating the presets to the site, you are agreeing to your presets becoming public domain.

Mike

Spread the word please... and don't be mad, I'm still working on Caustic.

Submitted by Rej - Dev on

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First of all: apologies, this post isn't about Caustic. I'm working to move things over to this website that will allow people to follow general news about my apps.

Work on Caustic 2.0 is still progressing nicely in between holiday festivities and nasty illnesses but it's not ready yet.

I hinted I was working on another app in between coding sessions for Caustic, and that app is out now so I just want to give it a shout here in case you're interested. Please help spread the word or your blogs, twitter, facebook, Google+, whatever the kids are into this week.

The app is called LoopStack and it's a loop recorder for Android very similar to Everyday Looper on iOS, with a hint of Caustic's new UI and effects. My plan is to bring some of this tech back into Caustic to allow sample recoding and maybe even a looper "machine".

 

Here's the market link:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.singlecellsoftware.loopstack

Happy new year!
Rej

Caustic 2.0 is coming...

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Exciting news for Caustic owners and Android music makers. I've got a few week's work left polishing up version 2.0 of Caustic and it's HUGE. It would probably be shorter to list what's NOT new rather than the new features so for now I'll give you the major items with some screenshots. A more complete feature list, as well as a user's manual, will accompany the official release.

New visuals

I've spent a bit of time "tightening up the graphics" on Caustic using the excellent SkinMan and KnobMan programs. The result is an app that takes itself a little more seriously compared to the programmer art I had in version 1.0. This should also allow for new skins to be created in the future.

Dynamic rack

You can now put whatever 6 machines you like in your rack. You want a crazy acid rig with 5 BassLines and a BeatBox, go for it. Nothing but SubSynths? Sure! Some machines are harder on the processor than others, but I've optimized everything to handle the average song on most devices. This also opens up the possibility of adding new machines to Caustic, which has me excited. I've already got a few prototype machines showing a lot of promise.

Pattern Editors for everyone

The SubSynth and PCMSynth now have pattern editors too. You can create entire orchestrations in pattern mode now, then drop them into the sequencer's single-page "pattern view". The sequencer still has full-song piano roll for things that don't suit patterns.

I know the sequencer is a major sore spot for the app right now and I think the new pattern editors will help take away some of the pain while I continue improving the workflow.

PCMSynth is all grown up

The PCMSynth extends to a full screen's worth of features. It's literally half sampler, half synth. Load up a simple WAV file or load a complex multi-sample instrument with loop points and send that all through the Filter, LFO and envelopes. The PCMSynth can now also load straight from SoundFont files (.sf2). Don't get carried away and load your 600Mb pro grand piano set, there's lots of older sf2 files on the net that make good mobile app instruments. I'll include some nice small ones with this release.

The PCMSynth will load up to 64 samples, or until you run out of RAM and it crashes ;-)

BeatBox gets more control

The BeatBox got some love too. It gets a entire new top half, exposing lots of controls you'd find in a typical drum machine. You'll get: Tone, Punch(attack), Decay, Volume as well as Pan adjustments per-instrument. The BeatBox is the only machine with stereo output for now, but it might be going into others later on.

Insert Effects

The bad news

There's always something, but this is minor. With each machine having its own pattern editor and a new effects section, there's a lot more scrolling to be done. The "machine jump" screen, which now also serves as the dynamic rack management screen, is going to be used a lot. Because some devices don't have a search button, this popup is now also mapped to a quick button in the bottom bar. I know some will get annoyed at all this scrolling, but I think the added features make it worthwhile.

The other news is the price of the full version is going up to ~8$. I've spent the better half of the last three months working like crazy to add major features and improve the app. Without revealing exact sales figures, let's just say I'm doing this for passion more than profit right now and that has to change a bit if I'm to keep going with updates. What does this mean to you? For those who've already bought the app, thank you very much for your support so far, you'll be getting this upgrade like any other for free when it comes out. If you haven't bought yet and were waiting for the app to mature, take a chance and buy it soon for cheap or wait and pay a bit more. I have no doubt the new version will be well worth the asking price.

I'm really hoping to have this out for the holidays but there's still a bit of work to do and I really don't want to publish until it's solid so please be patient, it'll be worth it.

Thanks for reading, take care.

-Rej

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