Stagecraft Software

Website traffic is up, and everyone is emailing. Thanks so much for the support and suggestions, keep em’ coming. Here is a quick summary of recent changes, and a look at some things to come:

New features

• new turntable visualization modes
• vastly improved visualizer
• better project wide bpm shifting and grain adjust
• full support for AU and VST plugins and effects
• better support for smaller screen sizes
• draggable widgets and tools

Coming Soon …

• saveable, configurable turntables
• saveable, configurable visualization
• equalizer
• ms pinky turntable support
• bundled 4Front VSTi/AU piano, electric paino and bass instruments
• Open Sound Control for syncing multiple computers together

I am also on the lookout for some VST/AU amplifiers and effects to include with FL as well, so send suggestions if you have some that you enjoy using.

I worked the last few days at improving the visualizer features and getting a VST/AU standalone plugin version completed. Mapping is coming along nicely, which allows the user to map the variables of the visualization environment (color, rotation, movement) to what is happening musically (tempo, pitch, volume, turntable scratching). The plugin will be open source (so anyone can modify it). Like all of FlyLoops, it’s written in C++, using the JUCE libraries.

FlyLoops can now load VST and AudioUnit plugin effects and instruments. What does that mean? Three things: 1) Guitar Amps/Effects. Live signals can be processed through audio plugins that act as guitar amps, or effects.  Thousands of guitar amps have already been modeled as plugin.  You can now add these to FlyLoops input channels just as if connecting a guitar amp at home.  Best of all, there are plenty of free amps and effects out there, see links below. 2) Turntable effects. You can now apply plugin effects, of which there are millions … free ….. to the FlyLoops turntables. This makes FlyLoops one of two programs to allow effects on turntables (Torq is the other), and the ONLY one that lets you record loops to turntables, freq shift to 64x normal speed, and quantize bpm and freq shifting. 3) FlyLoops now acts as a synth/sampler that loads plugin virtual instruments and will record them as loops along with the other inputs. There are a wide variety of free instruments available on the web (special thanks to 4Front technologies, for allowing me to repackage their piano and bass plugins to include with FlyLoops). Some links to free VSTs: www.kvraudio.com – Audio plugin news and links, a massive site with all sorts of new VST releases (free and commercial). www.vstplanet.com – another great VST list, also very large and searchable for many types of VST effects and instruments.