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We have just posted a partial feature set of VX-626 software to our product page. We are tracking pretty well to our March 2010 release date. It will be late March, though.
Note that pricing will remain US$59.95 for VX-626 1.0. All users who have VX-323 software get free upgrades. We will probably bump the price a bit for future versions, so consider this an introductory price.
Stay tuned for a screen shot, sample song, and more details....
The next generation of Speech Synthesis instrument will rock your Mac.
VX-626 is an Audio Unit, so it integrates directly into your music studio. Supported software includes GarageBand, Logic, Ableton Live, and others. It runs on Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6.
Stay tuned for more details....
Best wishes from Bitnotic to you for 2010...
Thanks to all of you who have shown interest in our software and music. We try to only make products that we ourselves enjoy and find useful, so it is especially gratifying when anyone else shares our passion.
Looking ahead, 2010 will be an exciting year around here. We have major upgrades to ALL of our Mac software in the pipeline. Our mobile software will see some love, chipping away at it until it is perfect. And there are rumors that The VX-323 is working on some new songs, too.
As always, we welcome your suggestions and feedback. As best we can, we will incorporate any user feedback we get. We foresee maintaining our reasonable prices and providing free support and free upgrades to registered users (unless we need to send out a CD or DVD, then there will be a small materials/processing fee).
Perhaps we will even throw out some surprises in 2010. So stay tuned!
Bitnotic is pleased to announce the release of Bitnotic chill 1.5. If you aren't already familiar with it, the basic idea is that you press the Play button and you get an endless stream of music. Styles of music vary between ambient, New Age, classical, and electronica. You can create your own genre of music by changing the Mood and Mix controls.
chill will export the music into a variety of file formats, which means you can listen to songs on your iPod or on CD. The software's license allows you to use recorded songs in your own presentations, videos, games, and so forth.
Among the new features are:
- Drums
- Stations
- Pulse Ranges
- Updated Music Algorithms
- Space Control
- German Localization
- …and many, many more
The upgrade is free for chill 1.0 owners. Just download it and install. You don't even need to register or anything. See Help > chill Release Notes for more detailed list of the changes.
We just posted a track called "Awakening" to our SoundCloud page. This song is from the very soon to be released Bitnotic chill 1.5. You can hear the drums, improved sound quality, and some of the other new features.
Octavian 1.1.0 was approved today and is now ready for sale. Download the update for free if you've already bought it, or take this opportunity to buy Octavian if you haven't already!
Quick Note: By default, Octavian plays the scale or chord any time you do something that changes the notes on the screen. If you want it to ONLY play when you touch the keyboard, go to the Settings app, scroll down to Octavian, and set Auto Play to OFF.
We just wrapped up our first update to Octavian. The main feature is the one that almost everyone requested, which is sound. We went to our favorite studio, SuperDigital, in Portland, OR and sampled their Kawai baby grand. We hand-tweaked each note to give it just enough body and a little hammer action, and put in some slick mixing to play back eight note chords without wrecking your iPhone or iPod touch speakers.
Also included in this update are a bunch of Altered Seventh chords, the Altered scale, and Prometheus chord. Thanks to "Arthur Flink" for suggesting more altered chords. We will explore a more flexible chord dialog in a future update.
Assuming it isn't rejected, this update should be available on the iTunes App Store in about a week.
PS. Hey, X:144, we are pretty sure the circle of fifths feature is working correctly. As far as we can tell, each step along the circle of fifths is a perfect fourth or perfect fifth, depending on the direction, so C goes to F or G. Are you thinking of relative minor? We will do something with that in a future update.
