Nov.2
2009
DroneStation In Brief...
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Here's a video of DroneStation in action. While I have a fairly good picture camera, my video camera is not so much, akshully. As a result, it's kind of hard to see what's on the screen. Can you trust me when I say it looks really nice?

Here's a screenshot of the main control screen. On the left is the four "keys." You can set the note each key will play. The X axis of the keys is volume, and the Y axis (after the initial hit) is pitch. So when you first touch the key, the pitch is selected by the note number, but dragging it up or down will change the pitch accordingly, as you can clearly see in the video.

Here's a second screenshot. As you can also make out in the video, the abstract shape in the center gets larger or smaller based upon the volume. The color changes from blueish (at an LFO depth of 0) to sea green (at an LFO depth of Full.) The shapes move based upon the speed of the LFO. In this way, not only do you have a fairly slick display, but you have good visual reference as to where you're at with the settings, should you need it.

Here's a shot of the settings screen. It's a 2-osc synth with a resonant 4PLP filter, basically, and does all the things that such a synth should do. It remembers the state you left it in when you start it again; I haven't quite hacked the preset portion of things yet, and I think the state memory is a fairly good substitute in the interim.

I'm going to submit this for approval this week at some point; it'll be $1.99.

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That looks pretty damn sweet. I'm in for $2.

posted November 2, 2009 by Funkybot
Given the app's delightful simplicity, I don't think preset management would be all that big an issue. The state memory should be enough... I can't even imagine much of a use for preset memory, it would be just as quick to dial in settings again. It's main purpose seems to be interaction, not repeatability.

posted November 2, 2009 by Mad Al
Yeah, that was my thought originally, and why I didn't allow for it from the git-go (which is why adding it now would require some fairly hefty re-architecturing.) I'll go ahead and labor under the assumption that the state recall will be fine for the now. The reason I added that was that if you wanted to use this live, it would suck to have to set the notes and shit (which are a bit twitchy, given Apple's mediocre slider code) in the middle of a song.

The app's real point, though, is to work out for myself how to pull off a control mechanism more appropriate to the context than a little keyboard and some knobs. It is an exercise in usability, more than anything else, and the first flowering of my Big Plan for multi-touch control surfaces as performance instruments.

-CR

posted November 2, 2009 by Chris Randall

That doesn't look gay at all.

posted November 2, 2009 by Darren "Gaylord" Halm
Darren, that's a battle I'll win. Just sayin'.

-CR

posted November 2, 2009 by Chris Randall

I'd buy that for a dollar... or 2.

Really nice! I love the simplicity.

posted November 2, 2009 by senorfrio

naughty panther...?

posted November 2, 2009 by the_woof
Naughty Panther is my new company. As I've mentioned not above a dozen times, these are not Audio Damage products.

-CR

posted November 2, 2009 by Chris Randall

Drones benefit from major reverb & delays, no?



posted November 2, 2009 by cubestar

Any possibility of flipping the interface so that manipulating the X/Y section is easier for sinister people or is that just too much work?

posted November 2, 2009 by spittingangels
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