Say April Fools Again, Motherfucker...

Just breath through it. It’ll be over soon.

In other news, here’s the deal: I generally work on about three or four things at once. Usually one Audio Damage thing, one thing for myself, and one contract job. The reason I haven’t been verbose about what I’m up to lately is several-fold. There are currently five (!!!) Audio Damage projects going on; one of them is for another company and we’re under NDA, two of them I promised Adam I wouldn’t talk about (which is kind of the same as an NDA without paperwork,) and one of them is so close to being done that there’s no point in talking about it.

(Yes, that was only four, if you’re counting. I’ll get to the fifth here in a minute.) On top of that, I have my usual UI contract work I do for others going on; currently, a very large project that, once again, I’m under NDA for and can’t talk about, except to say that I’m in the process of making it pop more.

So, I find myself in the unenviable position of being a relatively open person without anything to say. But if you follow me on Twitter, you’ll note that last week I spent some time porting Filterstation to iOS. Here’s a screenshot. When Audiobus for iOS was updated while I was in Hawaii, they added a feature called “Audiobus Filters.” While the name of this function maybe isn’t the best, it is an interesting idea. You can designate Audiobus-aware apps (or the system I/O) as both sources and destinations, and the Filters go in between.

So I recreated Filterstation in iOS as an Audiobus filter. It doesn’t do anything without Audiobus installed, and after looking at JACK and its supported apps, and the possibly hare-brained rig I’d have to build to support that method, I decided that it should be just an Audiobus filter. It will not work stand-alone. Functionally, it is identical to Filterstation except it doesn’t have MIDI or sidechain inputs. The UI is even more-or-less the same, taking in to account the foibles of Cocoa Touch. (For instance, our scrolling digits don’t work in that context, so I came up with a nifty pop-up slider device that works in their stead.)

This is pretty much done, and works fine. However, I have to wait until Adam returns before finishing it off and submitting it, because my ADC account is in my name, and there are business considerations to take in to account that require some discussion.

TL;DR: Busy, busy, busy. Cool shit coming. Yay!