Sector Update Adds New Features, More Loops & A User Guide

kymatica-sectorKymatica today updated Sector – its innovative stochastic step-sequencing sampler – to version 1.0.

Sector 1.0 adds new features, more loop content, a user guide and more. Among the new features are micro-fades to avoid clicks, support for AudioBus 2, independent control of tempo and playback rate and AudioCopy/AudioPaste.

Here’s what’s new in Sector 1.0:

  • MAJOR NEWS
    • Automatic micro-fades to avoid clicks (see SND menu)
    • Send MIDI clock sync (see MIDI config in PRJ menu)
    • Support for Audiobus2 and state saving
    • Recording of results, quantized with sample accuracy
    • Recordings can be loaded back as a loop, exported to AudioShare, AudioCopied, or opened in other app
    • New loops by Richard Devine, Sonic Mayhem, Arovane, and Sunsine Audio
    • Share projects by email or send to other apps like Dropbox
    • Allow decoupling of tempo and sample playback rate
    • Preview selected sector or warp while stopped
    • Main volume slider and oscilloscope display
    • AudioPaste for importing loops
    • Add RND/CLR/CPY/PST buttons for WRP
    • Four memory slots also for WRP
    • Copy/paste memory slots (long-press)
    • Preview samples and recordings
    • Toggle to follow IAA host play/stop
    • Bundled users guide (see PRJ menu)
  • OTHER IMPROVEMENTS
    • Added more warp shapes
    • New design for memory slots, show all simultaneously
    • Read BPM from filename to calculate number of beats
    • Split the menu into improved PRJ and SND menus
    • New demo projects by Kymatica and Sunsine Audio
    • Tap the Speed label in the SND menu to reset to original BPM
    • Display ‘invisible’ warp slot probability
    • Store currently selected memory slot in project
    • Store assigned manual trigger buttons in project
    • Fix loading of soundfiles that are not 44.1kHz
    • Auto-normalize samples, fixes occasional clipping
    • Don’t auto-select warp slot when changing probability
    • Fix occasional overflow bug in buffer player logic
    • Improve level peak metering
    • Resample sequencer pattern when changing number of sectors
    • Show number next to shapes in warp menu
    • Fix “Amenbreak B”, was the same as “Amenbreak” (full length)
    • Confirm before new/load project if there are unsaved changes
    • Sort by bpm or name in soundfile tables
    • Keep current MAP/SEQ/WRP tab open when loading project

Sector is available for US $8.99 in the App Store.

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