http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html Updates from Bitnotic en info@bitnotic.com Copyright 2009-2011 Scott Burgess 2011-07-13T08:14:37-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-22T12:00+00:00 Thu, 11 May 2012 06:22:06 -0800 http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html This is a maintenance release that enables both left and right landscape orientations, fixes some problems with in-app User Guide viewing, and one or two other small details. Thu, 10 May 2012 14:45:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html#blog00023 http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html This is a maintenance release that enables both left and right landscape orientations, fixes some problems with in-app User Guide viewing, and one or two other small details. Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:45:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html#blog00022 http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html The long wait is over! This is a significant upgrade with improvements to every aspect of the app. They include iPad support, 500+ new scales, much better piano playback, a new Circle of Fifths interface, and much, much more. Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:45:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html#blog00021 http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html Bitnotic's New Year started off on the right note, with the completion of Octavian 1.5! It looks and sounds fantastic and it will completely justify the expense of your iPhone, iPod, or iPad. And of course, your $2.99, which we really appreciate. Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:45:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html#blog00020 http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html As a special holiday treat we hacked Bitnotic chill to play variations of Jingle Bells and posted an album of songs on our SoundCloud account. You can listen to them or download them there. Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:45:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html#blog00019 http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html We're just making sure the audio playback works perfectly on iPod touch, iPhone 3, iPhone 4, and iPad on iOS 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, and 4.2. A few pops and clicks left to fix, but otherwise we are in good shape. Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:36:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html#blog00018 http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html Sorry about the lack of news here. We have been busily working away on various projects and are finally almost done with one of them: Octavian 1.5! Sat, 30 Oct 2010 04:10:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html#blog00017 http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html Just because we haven’t been updating our blog frequently, it doesn’t mean that Bitnotic isn’t busy working on our products! We have our VX-626 release, a big update to Octavian, and even some recording projects on the horizon. Tue, 14 Jul 2010 04:10:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html#blog00016 http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html If you have purchased chill 1.5 and are running into problems with your registration getting wiped out when you clear your Mac’s caches, send us an email at support@bitnotic.com and we will hook you up with a fix. The features are the same as chill 1.5, so unless you are having these specific problems, the update is optional. Tue, 14 Jul 2010 04:03:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html#blog00015 http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html We are going to push back VX-626 until April. It's really close. Please watch this space for an update. There will be a screenshot soon. Really! Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:32:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html#blog00014 http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html 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. Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:14:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog/blog0013.html http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html The next generation of Speech Synthesis instrument will rock your Mac. Sat, 29 Jan 2010 12:22:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog/blog0012.html http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html Best wishes from Bitnotic to you for 2010... Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:45:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog/blog0011.html http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html 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. Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:17:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog/blog0010.html http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html 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. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:17:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog/blog0009.html http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html 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! Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:22:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog/blog0008.html http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html 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 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:22:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog/blog0007.html http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html Just a heads up that we have a nice update to chill coming out soon. We're tightening up the music algorithms, adding drums, enabling reverb, and giving you a little more control of the music. And a few other things, of course! Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:22:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog/blog0006.html http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html Yes, we listen to our users! We are working on an update to Octavian that will play scales and chords with high-quality piano samples, so you can both see them and hear them. Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:22:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog/blog0005.html http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html Bitnotic is happy to announce that Octavian, Keyboard Calculator, is now available on the Apple iTunes App Store. Octavian makes the arcane art of scales and chords not so mysterious. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:22:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog/blog0004.html http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html While waiting for Apple to approve Octavian, we were looking around the Internet and found some people that are doing some pretty cool things with our software, chill. There are now links to them on the Featured Artists section of the chill page. Check it out! Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:32:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog/blog0003.html http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html We are super-excited to announced the newest addition to the Bitnotic family, Octavian. If you are any sort of musician, in any genre, you really ought to drop the $2.99 and get this app. It provides instant access to a huge variety of scales and chords in a sleek, fast package. Fri, 18 Aug 2009 08:18:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog/blog0002.html http://www.bitnotic.com/blog.html The old Bitnotic site with the green and the rounded edges was starting to shows its age, so we decided to strip it down and start over. So welcome to our 100% new streamlined, hand-coded site. Fri, 18 Aug 2009 15:18:00 GMT http://www.bitnotic.com/blog/blog0001.html