Developer Taylor Holliday has been keeping busy with updates to Audulus, his modular audio processing app for Mac OS X and the iPad.
The latest version, Audulus 2.1, introduces support for Jack on the iPad and five new nodes.
Here’s what’s new in Audulus 2.1:
- Support for JACK – JACK allows you to connect audio apps to each other any way you want.
- New Phasor Node (Synth -> Phasor).
- The Poly Pack, available in the Audulus Store. This consists of four new mono/poly conversion nodes (Utility category): MonoToStereo, StereoToMono, MonoToQuad, QuadToMono.
- Graphics optimizations.
Thanks Taylor! Great work!
Klaus, you’re welcome, and thank you!!
cheers
– Taylor
Thank you for this wonderful update….I used both Audiobus and Jack….great update.
Bill, cool! You’re welcome! Did you find it easy to switch back and forth between AB and Jack?
cheers
– Taylor
Bill, cool! You’re welcome! Did you find it easy to switch back and forth between AB and Jack?
cheers
– Taylor
Taylor – how does cross platform support work?
I’m mainly interested in how you get patches from one platform to another and how in- app purchases work. If you buy a node on one platform, do you have to buy the same nodes on the other to share patches?
TJ, excellent question! I’ve set it up so when you share a patch with some in-app-purchases in it, the patch will always still work (play the same sound) on another device (both Mac and iPad). So for example, if you made a sub-patch with some fancy use of the Math Expression Node, you could share it between devices (or with others) without worrying :-). However in order to edit the expression or create new instances of the expression node, you’ll have to buy the upgrade on that particular platform. I would like to set up a system to share the upgrades between platforms, but it requires setting up a server for account management, which is a lot of work and extra complexity.
Hope that helps 🙂
– Taylor
After reading this article I checked out the app on the iTunes store. It’s on sale for $9.99 right now so I picked it up.