Have you have seen the coverage at Daring Fireball, or read my official press release today?
Maybe you follow the @capoapp, or my @liscio feed at twitter.
Perhaps you read a blog post about Capo?
It’s also possible that you found out about Capo on a social news site.
If you haven’t seen any of the above, then I think you should know that last night I released Capo 1.0 into the wild. I’m so excited about it, and I really appreciate all the coverage Capo has received so far—Thanks!
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Is there any chance there will be a version of the app for the iPhone?
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:34 pm
I am intrigued by your product. I am curious how Capo would compare in features to the product I use, ‘The Amazing Slow Downer’ by Roni, which has been of really incredible utility to me as a musician and has steadily improved through each release. The website really doesn’t give too much specific information. Can you, for instance, modify a tune and then export the modified track as an MP3? Can you save a number of looped segments of a tune so that you can come back to them later? Is there an equalizer function? Different algorithms for transposing sound quality?
Any thoughts?
Ron
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:04 pm
The stretching soundsquite good when slowed ( relatively artifact free )
which stretching engine are you using ?
elastique ?, Dirac ? izotope ?
something else ?
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:14 pm
I have a suggestion for your Capo website. The title of the webpage should read “Capo – Learn Music By Ear on Mac OS X” or similar instead of just “Capo”. The same could be applied to the “Capo” heading on the webpage.
Overall though, I would like to congratulate you on your release of this fascinating application. Bravo.
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:38 pm
@Dave Capo isn’t possible, in its entirety, on the iPhone. However, I’m looking at making something work. We’ll see how it goes.
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:39 pm
@Ron There are a few things that I don’t do yet, such as exporting modified tracks. However, it seems to be a popular request…
You should check out the free demo, try it out for yourself, and see how Capo stacks up.
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:39 pm
@Dan I use Apple’s stretching engine. It’s quite good, and cost me nothing to license. :P
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:40 pm
@Vincent Good call—the page title definitely needs to be changed.
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Is there any chance that there’ll be a version of this that works for Mac OS 10.4? ‘Cause that’s all I’ve got.
April 27th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
I’m checking out the demo and I like it. Plain and simple.
However.
When I am looping a segment and stop for a second(by hitting the space bar) if I hit the space bar to continue, the music keeps playing past the loop area. To keep it looping I have to use my mouse and click on the loop icon and that just starts the loop all over again instead of continuing where I stopped.
Am I doing something wrong?
Looking forward to getting this.
Mike
April 27th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
@Mike: You can also use the ‘L’ key to start the loop over again, rather than the button.
For now, there’s no play/pause that only works within the loop. When I do fix this, it’ll probably just be the ‘L’ key toggling play/pause within the loop, just as the spacebar toggles play/pause.
April 28th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Okay Cris
So I paid for it. Now I have one more suggestion.
If you had the ability to make the interface a little smaller so that you could use it on top of a music document/lyric/chord sheet and not have it block so much.
Maybe like itunes where it basically collapses to just the transport.
Anyway, love it and thanks.
Mike