DroneStation 1.1...

I’ve just submitted Dronestation 1.1 to Apple for approval. I don’t know how long updates take to be approved, but I imagine they’re the same as initial submissions, so figure a couple weeks at worst, and a week at best.

Anyhow, as you can see, the UI is quite a bit different. I replaced the janky 80s-tastic aliased triangle drawing with some cool metaball shit. (I’m starting to get the hang of OpenGL | ES.) I also added a tilt sensor, which controls filter frequency in the amount you so desire. (An added control in the settings screen allows you to set how much tilt goes to freq, from none to like 3kHz or so.) The little arrowhead in the right-side bracket shows tilt position.

There is also a dead space between the notes and the LFO control, to make it easier to avoid hitting one when you’re trying to do the other. And I fixed the frequency bug, which was causing the notes to be offset by 5 semitones. Finally, I added a help overlay on the main screen that shows nubs how to play it.

There is some internal moving about in order to more easily allow future updates, and in the following rev I’ll add several of the things that were talked about in the last DroneStation thread, including 8 presets, a non-Southpaw mode that flips the controls, and probably a simple delay to make it more droney.

Anyhow, I expect this to be approved as there aren’t any changes Apple would object to, so it’s all up to them as to how long it will take.