bleep!BOX, a groove box and drum machine app for your iPhone™

1.3.1 is live, more fixes coming

WhiteNoise — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:49:39 +0000

1.3.1 is live – this update fixed SoundCloud support and some issues with the new ‘bar’ slider behavior (on the iPhone/Touch). There is still one more issue with the bar slider, in that changing the pattern length does not update the bar slider immediately. Right now, you would have to switch patterns (on the song page for instance) in order to get it to recognize your new setting. We are also looking into an issue with the intro ‘news’ page crashing if you click ‘GO’ before the images finish loading. Both of these bugs will be fixed and we are looking to submit a new update this weekend.

Good things are on the horizon – we are looking into providing Retina display support for those of you with iPhone 4′s, and we have more new features and cool stuff planned. We also have a couple videos to release. Stay tuned.

1.3.1 update submitted

WhiteNoise — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:52:42 +0000

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.

Outstanding issues

WhiteNoise — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:21:28 +0000

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.

Update Approved!

WhiteNoise — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:12:52 +0000

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

iOS 4.0 update submitted

WhiteNoise — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:24:01 +0000

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

iOS 4.0 issue – important

WhiteNoise — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:59:20 +0000

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.

A few videos from bleep!BOX users

WhiteNoise — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:18:50 +0000

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

1.3.0 in Review

WhiteNoise — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:36:15 +0000

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.

New version

WhiteNoise — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:15:58 +0000

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

Some new tracks up on SoundCloud

WhiteNoise — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:07:48 +0000

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.