Blip Interactive has announced a big update to NanoStudio, adding iPad support and more.

Here’s what’s new in NanoStudio 1.3 (Universal):

Features:

• Universal iPad version
• Free desktop version now supports window sizing
• Added extra musical scales to keyboard
• Increased size limit for a single sample to 32MB
• Ability to slide the keyboard by fractions of a note
• Mixer mute/solo
• Improved bottom range of mixer volume faders
• Double tap on mixer channel title to go to instrument
• Double tap on ‘centre zero’ knobs to return to centre
• Added ability to tap song position on status bar to toggle between bars and hours/minutes
• Added indicator to main menu to show the last selected instrument
• Update to latest Akai SynthStation library
• Added ‘Mix audio with other apps’ option to allow iTunes music background play (iOS)
• Added buffer latency settings (iOS)
• Automatic normalization is now optional after sampling or resampling
• Added an ‘add effect’ button to empty effects slots
• Changed TRG behaviour to allow drags across pads
• Added load/save effects chain to the effects select dialogue
• Song editor – vertical zoom
• Song editor – mute/solo buttons can be swiped vertically
• Song editor – added MIDI activity indicators to each track
• Song editor – parts on muted tracks are shown in grey
• MIDI file and .nsp file export dialogues now have a ‘show file’ button (Windows/OS X)

Bugfixes:

• Buzzing sound on Eden ring mod when phase was non-zero
• TRG-16’s ‘auto BPM’ function was sometimes inaccurate
• Possible fix for OS X not enumerating some MIDI input devices