Which is positive. You could have been forgiven for thinking that Retronyms had abandoned Tabletop, which would have been a shame in my opinion, but they haven’t, and like other developers right now, they’ve updated it so that it’s 64-bit.
Here’s what’s new:
What’s Fixed:
Or to be specific to Samsung devices running Android. I’m also slightly confused as they’ve kept the name as iMPC and not changed it to something more appropriate like aMPC? Anyway, at the very least it it good to see something new for Android users and to see Retronyms branch out into the Android world.
Here’s what they have to say about it:
“We are excited to release our collaboration with Samsung and Akai Professional! iMPC is available now on Samsung Galaxy Apps Store.
With more than 1,200 samples, 50 editable programs, 80 editable sequences and iconic MPC workflow, iMPC is the first app to bring all the functionality of a classic Akai Professional MPC to the Samsung Galaxy Apps Store.
“With the iMPC, users can create and manipulate beats and sequences with amazing precision and creativity,” said Dan Gill, Product Manager for Akai Professional. “It’s simple to use, and has all the flexibility and options anyone could ever want—and then some.” We can’t wait to see what you create.”
You can find iMPC for Android on the Samsung store here.
To celebrate Retronyms have a bunch of iOS stuff on sale, including some stuff inside Tabletop and also Hook for iPhone and iPad are on sale.
You may well be aware that Retronyms are about to announce their next app, Hook, tomorrow. They’ve been talking about it for a few weeks now, and have been posting weekly videos about it, starting with this one:
Which was a nice little intro if a bit lite on the details of the app. They made up for that with their next video:
Which started to show the functionality of the app in a bit more detail, and then progressed to their latest video showing iTunes and Spotify workflow:
All of this gets delivered to us tomorrow along with their hardware product Wej. The 21st will be a big day for the Retronyms, and I’ll be watching.
But as I’ve watched the videos, read the press releases and also played with the app itself something started to dawn on me, and if you’ve already spotted it then please forgive me for being kind of slow on the uptake.
From tomorrow Retronyms will have their own iOS, content, and hardware ecosystem all in place, all integrated and all available. It’s quite impressive in many ways, or at least I think so. Here’s what they will have achieved as of tomorrow:
It can be easy to forget that Retronyms are responsible for AudioCopy, something that lots of apps use, and that lots of us rely on. But AudioCopy isn’t just a handy utility for moving stuff about, no, it’s a content store too. Whether you use it or not, it’s there and it has a lot of content available from some pretty decent names too.
As of tomorrow Retronyms will have Hook on the store, their new mashup / remix tool for iOS. I’ll reserve judgement on that until tomorrow I think. But let’s not forget that they also have Tabletop, their own sort of modular music making environment. Also integrated with AudioCopy.
What remains to be seen is how (or indeed, if) Hook will integrate with Tabletop? I think it might be a missed trick if it didn’t, but let’s see what they do from tomorrow.
Last but not least Retronyms have their Wej hardware. A device which is tightly integrated with Hook and goes on general sale as of tomorrow.
Let’s not forget that Retronyms also arrange some pretty cool mobile music meet ups and events and have a few other (possibly slightly unloved) apps in their repertoire, such as Phase84, iMPC Pro, Stryke, and my personal favourite DopplerPad which was original released in 2009! Personally I think DopplerPad would be amazing if it got updated, but I’ve probably said that one time too many.
Tomorrow will be interesting, but I’ll be really keen to see how this whole integrated Retronyms universe develops further. For now, one step at a time.
Hook and Wej tomorrow, good luck Retronyms.
Video description:
“Novation has created a new formidable product called Circuit.
I haven’t got it, so I recreate the circuit spot on Tabletop app on my iPad Air 2!”
Video published by Matteo Cozza.
Tabletop on the app store:
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