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Vinyl Support Arrives
by Aaron Leese on Jun.29, 2012, under Advanced Features, Basic Features, Digital DJ
Joining the ranks of elite professional DJ software, Livetronica Studio now supports timecoded Vinyl – specifically Traktor, Torq, and Ms Pinky formats (no Serato support yet). We still have one of the only DJ software out there that gives you quantizable freq shifts (up to 4 octaves), bpm shifts (up to +/- 8 times play… Read More
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LaunchPad Support Arrives!
by Aaron Leese on May.28, 2012, under Basic Features
We’ve started adding control surfaces to the software. First up – Novation’s incredible LaunchPad controller. The LaunchPad is one of the most popular midi controllers of the last few years. If you own one, Livetronica will now find it on startup. The Launchpad can be used to trigger clips and loops, and will light up… Read More
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Features Tour
by Aaron Leese on Mar.07, 2012, under Basic Features
This video takes you through nearly every aspect of the software, and shows off looping, scratching, Soundcloud integration, midi mapping, turntable effects, and vinyl support. downloadable now available!
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A Beat Matching Crossfader
by Aaron Leese on May.25, 2011, under Developer
A couple weekends ago I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at SF Music Hackday, and SF MusicTech Conference. One company featured heavily in new music technology is EchoNest – a company devoted to a music metadata API for developers. Echonest is one of the frontrunners in this new industry. You can use APIs… Read More
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Draw your own Filters!
by Aaron Leese on Nov.30, 2009, under Advanced Features, Basic Features, Other
Just a sneak peak at one of the newest features being developed for FlyLoops. The screenshot below shows the prototype for a type of equalizer that lets you draw your own filter envelope. The filter variables are mappable to Midi commands, or controllable with the mouse, allowing users to change the way loops are EQ’ed… Read More
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FlyLoops v3.5 Released!
by Aaron Leese on Nov.05, 2009, under Other
Website traffic is up, and everyone is emailing. Thanks so much for the support and suggestions, keep em’ coming. Here is a quick summary of recent changes, and a look at some things to come: New features new turntable visualization modes vastly improved visualizer better project wide bpm shifting and grain adjust full support for… Read More
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New Visualizer Features, and Open Source Code
by Aaron Leese on Oct.04, 2009, under Advanced Features
I worked the last few days at improving the visualizer features and getting a VST/AU standalone plugin version completed. Mapping is coming along nicely, which allows the user to map the variables of the visualization environment (color, rotation, movement) to what is happening musically (tempo, pitch, volume, turntable scratching). The plugin will be open source… Read More
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Improved Visualization
by Aaron Leese on Jul.01, 2009, under Advanced Features
Within FlyLoops is a real time audio data visualizer that displays a waveform based on the live input audio, plus any looping or turntable output. The goal of this display is to be a professional level visualizer for the audio as it is being performed. Recent improvements to the visualizer include the ability to alter… Read More
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FlyLoops Looping Studio for OSX!
by Aaron Leese on May.20, 2009, under Basic Features, Other
FlyLoops v 3.0 is now available for Mac OSX. The new Mac OSX Release (v3.0) is now available (free, with all live functionality and no time restriction, but no file saving capability). FlyLoops is the simplest to use and most complete looper available, doing everything the classic hardware looper devices could (rec/stack/overdub/multiply/A->B side), but allowing… Read More
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Visualization
by Aaron Leese on Apr.02, 2009, under Advanced Features
FlyLoops 3.0 also includes a waveform visualization studio which allows you to build live visualization that correspond with the music as it is being made (the visualizer uses the currently playing loops and turntables as well as any live input). The novel thing is that you can control the visualization. Decide which parameters vary, and… Read More
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