arpeggio
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What's new

Every version of Arpeggio.

Newest first, as the app shows it after each update. Arpeggio keeps itself up to date, so the latest is a restart away.

Arpeggio 1.4

Latest

New

Live modePlay the stage from a MIDI controller, or Arpeggio's own on screen. Live, in the header.⌃⌘L
LayersUp to four, each a picture, a video, an Aura or Ground, with its own effects. + Add layer.
TemplatesNine whole looks to start from, or save your own. File ▸ New from Template.⇧⌘N

Also new

Every setting in one placeWith search, from the faders key in the header or Arpeggio ▸ Settings.⌘,
Your controllerPlug it in and Settings ▸ Controllers shows it, and lets you pick what each pad does.
Scenes for each layerEvery layer has its own eight. The scenes you had are layer 1's.
The track's own timeListening to Spotify or Apple Music, the footer shows how far in you are. Drag to jump.
One app onlyClick the app's name under the stage to hear only Spotify, a browser, anything playing.
More on every card⋯ for everything it can do, Presets to start from, ⌘-click cards to group them.
Hold C to compareThe layer without its effects, back when you let go.C
Mini players of your ownName, colour, shape, readout and a third key, in Settings.

Fixed

Songs on an unplugged driveArpeggio dropped them from the list for good. Now they're back when it's plugged in.
Pictures keep changingAfter a scene or an undo, they stopped moving on by themselves.
Exports match the stagePinned scenes, picture changes and video speeds come out as the stage showed them.
From the very topRecording or looping from a song's first moment could quit Arpeggio.
Blackout in recordingsThe video now goes dark when the stage does.
Listening holds steadyChanging speakers keeps your tempo, and pausing one app leaves the other's title showing.
Steady while you dragEffects ran fast while a slider or knob was being dragged.
Spotify and Music stay closedArpeggio could open them again just after you'd quit them.
Dither on light paperIt printed black. It's the palette's light tone again.

Arpeggio 1.3

Export

Export a videoThe whole song, a loop or from here, drawn frame by frame, none dropped. File ▸ Export Video.⇧⌘E
For a Reel, a Post, Square or Wide1080p or 4K, 30 or 60, with the music or silent. The stage shows the shape first.
Keep, share or eraseEvery video ends on one card: watch it, AirDrop it to your phone, or let it go.

Mini player

A small deviceThe stage, the readout and the keys, floating over your other windows, Spaces and all. Drop songs on it. Mini, in the header.⌃⌘M
Four sizesStanding up, lying down, the stage alone or the player alone. The View key steps through them, and each keeps its shape as you drag it bigger. The stage alone shows its keys while the pointer is over it.⌃⌘V

Stage

Every pointEach card's point has a ring on the stage. Pick up any of them.
Drag while it playsA point you're holding stays put through scenes, and lets go as one undo.
A second ringSwirl's reach, Mirror's angle and Ripple's size, dragged on the stage.
Points stay putZoom or move the picture and the points go with it.
A black screenThe stage is black in every palette, set into the panel behind glass, like the mini player's. A video of it is what you saw.

Faster

LighterMeters, sliders and pictures redraw only as often as they change.
Smoother scenesA scene gliding in no longer redraws every card on its way.
Rests when hiddenBehind other windows the stage slows right down, unless it's recording.
Stage qualityLighter draws the effects a little softer for much less work. In View.

Songs

Their real namesTitle and artist come from the song's own tags, in the header and the list. Untagged files lose their track numbers.
Spotify and Apple MusicListening, the header shows the track, who it's by and its cover, and a new track's tempo is heard afresh.
Their keys, from hereListening to either, Play plays and pauses it, and ⌘← ⌘→ skip tracks. Stop listening with ⇧⌘L.Space⌘←⌘→
Can't hear the Mac?Open Settings goes straight to where Arpeggio is let hear it.
Follows your speakersAirPods on, or a different output picked, and listening carries on in time with them.

Keys

Milled aluminiumThe knobs are machined now: a bead-blasted grain and a rim that catches the light, in the palette's colour.
Loop runs roundA pulse chases round the key while Loop is on, a dot a sixteenth, and each arrow fires as it passes.
Record breathesThe light breathes while it records, a breath every two beats.
Freeze sets, Blackout goes outHold F and the crystal grows from the centre. Hold B and the picture's lights go out, leaving the frame.
Bypass shows the way roundThe effects' box has its knobs now, and while they're bypassed the signal climbs over it, a pulse at a time.

Updates

Off the stage"Update available" after the name. Click it to see what's new, then restart.
What's New, in fullThe notes scroll under the title, and come on like a board.

Fixed

The icon in Stage ManagerArpeggio's tile showed empty there. Its largest size was blank; now it's drawn.
Picture changesChanging pictures by themselves opens each one once, not every frame.
Grown cards togetherSeveral Bloom and Mycelium cards draw cleanly side by side.

Arpeggio 1.2

Music

Listen to your MacSpotify, Apple Music, anything it plays moves the stage. Listen, by Song.⇧⌘L
Nudge the beatThe right speed but landing off? Move it a touch earlier or later.,.

Stage

Another displayFull screen on a projector or second screen, from Stage.
A shape16:9, 4:3, 1:1 or 9:16. Recordings keep it.
Frame the picturePinch the stage to zoom, scroll to move it.
More roomDrag the line beside the panel. Double-click the stage to fill the screen.⌃⌘S

Pictures

Many at onceAdd a folder. They change every few bars or on hits.[]
Videos keep timeAt the song's tempo, from somewhere new each time.

Feel

Look aheadRest on a scene's key to see it before you pick it.
Knobs that clickA click for each dot, on a Force Touch trackpad.
Move the windowDrag any empty space. Double-click the top to zoom.

Arpeggio 1.1

Record

Record a videoThe stage and the song as you play them, scenes and all, into an .mp4.⌘R

Look

Palette menuEvery palette in one key in the header. Auto is Paper or Graphite.

Updates

Ready when you areNew versions download by themselves. Restart from the stage, or quit.
Icon in Dark ModeStage Manager shows Arpeggio's icon again.

Arpeggio 1.0.1

Updates

Stays up to dateArpeggio offers new versions. Check for Updates… looks any time.

Arpeggio 1.0

Music

Five pulsesEvery song is heard first: Low, Mid, High, Hit and Beat move the cards.
The tempoHeard in the song. Tap along, or halve or double it, to fix it.
Loop a stretchLoop the song, or drag its handles in to loop a few bars.⌘L

Effects

Fifteen effectsStack them as cards. Each listens to a pulse and moves with it.
GrownBloom and Mycelium grow over the song, from its start to its end.

Stage

Where it startsGround, Aura, or an image or video dropped on the window.
Eight scenesSave a look, bring it back on the beat, pin it to the song.1–8M
Hold itFreeze the picture or fade it out, for a moment or until you let go.FB
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