AudioSpace 7.2 has arrived, celebrating the spring by joining the Steam Spring Sale! 🌸
The highlight of this release is a versatile arpeggiator for the synth. Each step can contain up to 8 notes (as a chord), with up to 16 steps per sequence. There are controls for groove, velocity dynamics, octave range, note length, repeat logic, and sequence ordering. The velocity of each step can also be adjusted individually.
There's a bunch of new synth presets too, including some arp patterns. They now provide a solid set of sounds to explore and experiment with. I hope you’ll make great use of this synth’s creative power — it’s lightweight only in price! 🎹🎵
If you want the backdrop for all visualizations be something other than the Milky Way, simply drop your custom environment texture into Documents/AudioSpace/media and name it "space-sphere". HDR is also supported via .exr files.
The full list of changes is below. If you have any feature ideas or wishes, let me know! I'd love to hear about them.
To set you on the right wavelength, here's a video from interstellar space: https://youtu.be/95_BsbpBKq8
(link may not work if you view this in What's New / Activity feed, but it works in the Community Hub)
On this video, both the audio and visuals are created by AudioSpace; the music is played with the "piano space" preset for incoming MIDI stream from a DAW via loopMIDI.
Enjoy! ✨
Kari / Ferrit
New in version 7.2:
SYNTH
- added a pattern arpeggiator (each step can contain multiple notes)
- each key zone can have its own arpeggiator (for max 16 zones)
- added arpeggiator sequence presets: harp arp, jazz swing, overload, syncopated, tangram
- other new presets: church organ, electric organ, noise of ocean, noise of storm, laser
- synth overlay-UI now auto-opens & closes with synth mode, on left wall by default (configurable)
- added mouse wheel support for the synth UI
- key zones can now be added & removed with Alt+click on the synth UI MIDI keys
- added support for drag & drop for synth presets and waveforms
- much smoother reverb, also improved the shimmer
- quality improvements for chorus/flanger
- better DC control for pink & brown noise
VISUALS
- added support for custom environment textures (equirectangular sphere maps): just copy a file named "space-sphere.png" (or .jpg, or .exr for HDR) in Documents/AudioSpace/media -folder to replace the normal Milky Way background with anything you like! (to try it out, rename "constellation figures.png" in the media folder to "space-sphere.png")
- visual immprovements to black hole photon ring and lensing (now smoother)
- compiled shaders are now cached for much faster loading
- no more light leaking through the corners of opaque room walls
ENGINE
- much better music tempo estimation, now pretty stable from ~90 to ~150 BPM
- fixed unresponsive media player controls when an audio stream is offline
- fixed an issue with saving nebula wavefronts in presets
- removed one item from the radio playlist (no longer broadcasting)
- several stability and performance improvements