January 2011
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Deleting saved and shared grids in SoundGrid
From recent user review in AppStore I see that some users don’t know how to delete saved and shared grids and think that it’s impossible.
Of course this is possible - you can use standard ‘swipe to delete’ gesture in Load Grid menu to delete unneeded grids, and also in Shared Grids it’s possible to delete your grids the same way (you have to do this on the same...
SoundGrid has true 128 note polyphony
On iPhone 4 (and other latest devices) SoundGrid can perfectly play all 16 notes in all 8 layers with different instruments (128 stereo samples total) simultaneously with all 3 effects turned on for each layer. Load special grid I published in Shared Grids and try it yourself.
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SoundGrid 3.30 & new instrument: Steinway Piano
SoundGrid 3.30 is out. This is minor update with some UI fixes and one improvement related to musical scales.
Now list of possible scales to show in instrument selector is automatically determined from set of samples included in instrument packager. Scales definition file is updated every time user opens ‘Get More Instruments’ menu.
Also new instrument is available - Steinway Piano....
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Storing images in iDocument library
There are a lot of applications to manage and edit photos - iPhoto, Lightroom, Aperture and others. But what if I need to organize and keep in one place images that aren’t actually photos and will never be edited? For example, wallpapers, scans, some random images from the web and so on. I couldn’t find good application for such needs.
But there’s very good app for organizing...
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Grooveshark Player for Mac
Grooveshark is a great service to explore and listen to new music as well as upload tracks from your computer to listen to them anywhere. However their desktop client is slow and constantly uses CPU even when completely idle (yes, it’s f*cking Flash/Air) while their new website is pure HTML and fast. So I decided to develop very small stand-alone application that actually just displays...