A complete music creation tool in your Palm powered handheld!

* Integrated sample editor, able to load .wav files from SD cards, sample packs in RAM, or waveforms from a built-in sample library.

* Instrument (program) editor with envelope, LFO, and low-pass resonant filter. Up to 32 instruments can be defined. Polyphony : from 8 to 16 voices on 120 MHz devices depending on filter settings. Up to 30 voices on T3s.

* Pattern editor with undo and advanced edit operations offering 3 views: piano roll ; grid for drum programming ; and parameters to adjust velocity, pan, cutoff, etc. for each note.

* Song editor allowing the creation of songs by arranging patterns.

* Mixer page to quickly edit volume and pan, as well as effects settings. 9 effect plugins available : delay, flanger, reverb, reverse, overdrive, EQ, filter, multi-LFO (tremolo, autopan...), and dirty low-tech sound. Developers can develop their own plug-ins, and/or include them in their own audio apps.

* Conduit enabling the rendering of songs as .wav files on the desktop PC when performing HotSync. Export of separate tracks or individual samples as .wav files, as well as MIDI export is now supported.

* Free, redistribuable, song player (also available here as standalone PiooPiooPlayer)

Note: The trial version has the following limitations: after a few minutes you must restart the playing ; saving is limited to one file ; synchronization is disabled ; and the song size cannot exceed 32 bars.

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Version History

Remove any older version of Bhajis Loops installed on your handheld.

v1.7

• General
  • The space bar on Tréo smartphones can now be used in place of the central button to start / stop the playback.
  • The "Beam me!" function beams not only Bhajis Loops, but also all the installed plug-ins.
  • A "revert to saved" command has been added in the song view.
  • In all the toolboxes, a small arrow has been added to the bottom right corner of the tools for which a popup option menu is available.
  • 4 short taps (at 120 BPM or higher ;) on any knob will display two arrows, allowing changes by small increments. You can revert to the normal behaviour by tapping outside the arrows.
  • A new option in the "Audio output" dialog, allows the output of a mono mix on the left channel, and of a clock signal (24 pulses per quarter note) on the right channel for synchronization with external analog devices or SYNC/MIDI clock interfaces.
  • For TX users, two options have been added to easily quit Bhajis Loops. Entering the letter q in the graffiti area of the arrange window will quit the program; as well as pressing twice the first application button.
• Sample Editor
  • A new options has been added in the preferences to define a default action when opening stereo samples.
  • The volume of the previewed samples is now adjusted, to match the volume of the song playing in the background.
  • A bug in the sample loading dialog, resulting in the listing of the content of the root rather than the current directory has been fixed.
  • A new menu command has been added to add several samples in a row.
  • The AudX plug-in effects can now be applied to samples. Optimal performances and accurate results can only be achieved with samples recorded at 11, 22 or 44kHz. Other samples will be processed as if they were recorded at the nearest multiple of 11kHz.
  • A new command has been added to silence the selection. This is useful if you want to add empty space at the end of a sample before applying an effect. For example, if you want to add one second of silence at the end of the sample, select one second of sample data, copy it, paste it at the end of the sample, and silence it.
  • Only the selected part of the waveform is played when the "Play" button is pressed.
• Plug-ins
  • Envelope and duration controls have been added to the Buffer lock plug-in.
  • A new plug-in, "Gateau", has been added. This plug-in is a gater/gapper/filler which can also transpose and reverse periodically the source signal. It can be used to create classic gating effects, delays, reversed delays, or even arpeggios.
  • A new plug-in, "CuteDog", has been added. This plug-in simulates rotary speakers, and is dedicated to electric organ sounds.
  • A new Vocoder plug-in has been added. It is available in two versions - 5 bands (Vocoder) and 9 bands (VocoderX). The 9-bands version is more CPU intensive but produces a more intelligible output when used with vocal sounds.
  • New parameters (pan, ping-pong) have been added to the Delay plug-in.
• Pattern editor
  • A new command has been added to mix together several patterns into one same destination pattern.
  • A new chord editor has been added to quickly input chords in standard notation (Cmin7, Ab, Gsus4...).
  • A new command called "Ternarize" adjusts the positions and durations of selected notes by a factor of 4/3, effectively transforming 3 semiquavers into a triplet.
• Instrument editor
  • You can now use the left and right keys of the 5 way navigator to change the value of the most recently used knob.
  • A display bug occuring when a sample is loaded directly from the instrument editor has been fixed.
  • The behaviour of the shortcut allowing samples to be loaded directly from the instrument editor has been changed. Tapping on the "Sample" button will either load a new sample in the library for instruments to which no sample has been assigned; or will replace the selected sample in other cases.
  • An option has been added to invert the polarity of the filter modulation.
  • Instruments can be previewed in the "Load instrument" dialog, when you select them. For this, you need to enable the "Preview" option in the preferences.
• XY pad
  • 5 scenes (collections of settings) are available for the XY pad. These scenes are saved with the song. You can change the current scene by using the up/down buttons or the numeric keys from "1" to "5" on a Tréo.
  • A new menu option in the XY pad allows the smoothing of stylus moves, and the creation of transitions between parameter values.
• Mixer
  • A large part of the Mixer UI has been rewritten, resulting in smaller code.
  • A new option has been introduced in the preferences, "4 by 4 track change in mixer". When this option is enabled, the assignement of instruments to mixer tracks will be done by groups of 4. For example, if you select instrument 5 for track 1, instruments 6, 7 and 8 will be automatically assigned to tracks 2, 3 and 4.
  • A new command displays the list of instruments sent to or processed by the selected effect.
  • Newly created automation tracks are set to the current value of the parameter they control, rather than a default middle value.
  • Several bugs have been fixed, occuring when envelope parameters are automated.
• Live mode
  • A bug occuring when the same parameter is assigned to two controllers has been fixed.
• Song
  • A few minor bugs in the "Add section" dialog have been fixed.
  • A bug occuring when exporting long songs to MIDIfiles has been fixed.
  • A new "Strategies" menu command is available to assist you in your creative process, by displaying random inspiring ideas.
  • A new tool has been added to quickly create repetitions of the selected pattern. It fills empty spaces in a track with repetitions of the selected pattern. For example, to fill the bars 1 to 11 with a repetition of the selected pattern, create a pattern in bar 11, and use the fill tool in bar 1 to fill the gap from bar 1 to 11.
  • A variation of the new tool presented above fills empty space with sequences of patterns (A01 A02 A03...).
• SynchroPoolp
  • An application managing both synchronization and playback of Bhajis Loops songs (SynchroPoolpX) for Mac OS X is now packaged with Bhajis Loops.

New features in version 1.6

• Sample editor
  • A new option, "Auto play samples in sample loader" allows the automatic preview of samples in the sample loader dialog.
  • Modified samples can now be exported as .wav files.
  • A new tool is available to directly draw on-screen the waveform.
  • A vu-meter has been added in the "Record" dialog.
  • Samples can now be directly loaded from SF2 SoundFonts. Note: This function applies to the samples used in the SoundFont ; not to the patches/instruments.
• Instrument editor
  • Copy/Paste functions have been added. It is now easy to clone an existing instrument.
  • Instruments can be layered, and mapped to specific note ranges.
  • 64 instruments are now available.
  • A new high-pass filtering section has been added to each instrument, which can be combined with the existing low-pass section for interesting effects.
  • The filter cutoff can now be controlled by the LFO for "growl" or "sweep" effects.
  • The LFO now offers different waveforms (ramp, square wave, sine wave).
• Pattern editor
  • A pattern library function allows you to quickly store and retrieve most frequently used patterns.
  • A new Flam effect, similar to the "note retrigger" of older sound trackers has been added.
• Arrange window
  • An optional grid display is available. Useful if you want to pretend you are using a spreadsheet program!
  • New random words have been added to the title generator.
  • A new Microtuning dialog box allows the modification of the tuning of each note of the scale - useful for ethnic or historic musical experimentents!
• Live mode
  • A new (visual) alarm function has been added - useful when you need to limit the duration of your performance.
  • A new "Warp" feature has been added, allowing you to specify transition rules between sections. This is particularly interesting if you are using Bhajis Loops as a backing machine.
• Mixer
  • The mixer architecture has been redesigned to support 4 effect buses (+ a master effect), Mutes, and Solos.
  • Global vu-meters can be displayed in the top-right corner of the mixer view.
• Playback engine
  • A "mono mixdown" option is available - if you want to listen to your song through only one earphone.
  • Several optimization has been added to the mixing engine, in order to increase polyphony.
• Miscellaneous
  • A playlist has been added to the external player Pioopiooplayer! This application also has a new user interface.
  • Many Bug Fixes on T5 / Zodiac, and other devices supporting multiple VFS volumes.
  • The "Restore last screen" and "Save when quitting" options have been merged in "Restore last session".
  • The preference dialog has been redesigned.
  • The support of the Cli頊ogDial has been improved.
  • A bug has been fixed in the display of the color selection dialog.
  • The Load/Save dialog now has "Create directory" and "Remove directory" commands.
• Plug-ins
  • Chorus, Phaser, Pitch-shifter plug-ins have been added, as well as a nasty buffer lock / software crash effect (Venetian Snares, Kid606 or Fennesz, watch out, we're coming!)