This update will fix SoundCloud support and some problems with the ‘bar’ picker on the iPhone interface. Updates for bleep!Synth and bleep!BOX Player are also waiting for review and are expected within the next few days.

Looks like a couple minor things got broken in the scramble to fix bleep!BOX for iOS 4

• Some text values on the edit sliders are cut off
• Soundcloud authorization isn’t working correctly

We are aware of the issues and will get these two items fixed quickly. Fixes for bleep!Synth are also in the pipeline and expected shortly.

1.3.0 bleep!BOX is now available for download. All users are encouraged to upgrade. Here’s the full list of changes:

• iOS 4.0 compatibility General Pasteboard Audio Copy (Beatmaker, MAPI 1.1)
• Many UI Enhancements for the iPad
• New background image
• FileSharing (OS 3.2 and up)
• SoundCloud submission
• Tweet your beat
• Fix for Loading Issues
• Fixed deleting files
• Ability to Customize your backgrounds (via FileSharing)
• Sound ‘dropout’ fixes
• New Patterns and Presets
• Ability to open patches via web link
• Clear part, Clear Pattern options
• Ability to save and delete multiple audio (.WAV) files
• changed wav format to 16-bit for greater compatibility with other apps

An important bug fix for iOS 4.0 has been submitted. Lets all hope for a speedy and smooth approval.

Apple has notified us that there is a crashing issue (and a no-sound issue) with bleep!BOX under iOS 4.0 – we are working hard to get this resolved as soon as possible. Until then, I would recommend not upgrading your phone to iOS 4.0 just yet, if using bleep!BOX is important to you.

Update 6/26:
We are still working hard to resolve these issues – we have a fix for the no-sound issue and are working out some OpenGL related issues on specific devices. I am hopeful that we will be able to submit a new update sometime this coming week. For now, stick to bleep!BOX on iOS 3.2 (iPad) or 3.1.3.

Some great user made videos of bleep!BOX in action on both the iPad and iPhone:

Just a quick note to say that 1.3.0 is in the review process. It has been rejected once (legitimately), but those issues have now been fixed and hopefully it will be approved this time. App approval times seem to be averaging about 4 days.  I’m very excited to see this version go out the door, since it adds a lot of new requested features and addresses many bugs too. The full list of features will be posted as soon as it’s released.

Work is wrapping up on the new version which I’ve been teasing for a while now. I fixed up a couple critical bugs this weekend and made some improvements to the loading sequence. So the app should start up faster and hopefully this will fix any issues people are having launching the app (I had only one report of problems).

The next version will support the Intua ‘General Pasteboard’ method for copying and pasting audio to other apps.Also, Sonoma has released version 1.1 of their API which supports the General Pasteboard. So, soon you’ll be able to paste into all of those apps, such as FourTrack and Looptastic (as soon as all developers upgrade to 1.1). I’m very excited about this. Combined with the multitasking stuff coming in OS4.0, it will be very easy to use a variety of different apps to generate audio and compose music on the iPhone / iPad. Now we just need someone to figure out how to hack the Camera Kit to do MIDI output

I’ve been posting some tracks to SoundCloud using bleep!BOX’s upcoming ‘upload to SoundCloud’ feature. You can check them out here or individually:

http://soundcloud.com/bleep-box/kfuc-120-wav
http://soundcloud.com/bleep-box/deciembre-130-wav-1
http://soundcloud.com/bleep-box/docrobot-109-wav
http://soundcloud.com/bleep-box/hypno-107-wav
http://soundcloud.com/bleep-box/bleep-dnb2

You can download the original .WAV files for most of these, so feel free to use the tracks in your own music.

I’m happy to say that SoundCloud.com now works pretty well on the iPad/iPhone. Hope they figure out a way to make the widgets work too.

While we have been hard at work adding new features, we have also been thinking how to best make use of all this great new screen real-estate on the iPad, while still keeping our iPhone and iPod touch users happy. To that end, we have gone through and adjusted every page in bleep!BOX to use the full screen space available. No more ‘empty’ looking pages. Plus, we’ve added the one feature that will make bleep!BOX respected in the pantheon of ‘Professional’ music applications. You guessed it – BRUSHED ALUMINUM. Awwww yeah!!!

And yes, for you haters of white space, there is still some white space on the sequencer page. Why you might ask? Well maybe, JUST MAYBE some amazing new things will get added there someday. YOU JUST NEVER KNOW!!

Click below for the bigger versions.