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New version of Vagabond just dropped. Mac edition available now from the software page, iOS heading to the App Store sooner or later — this one will get submitted for App Review, since the main change was requested by an actual user, of all things. Said change is a preset browser in the AU itself, allowing presets to be loaded in host apps that don’t support this themselves. Case in point Koala Sampler, seen here modelling the new browser:

Also new to the software page is an alpha release of a new generative music app, Quarterjack. Here it is running standalone:

It’s fun. I like it. There’s a reasonable chance it might make it to the App Store too. In the fullness of time.

I like Lapidary and Persiflage and Auxotroph too, but the thought of submitting them all just makes me tired. All of these apps are basically me noodling to myself anyway, so it doesn’t really matter if nobody else gets to see them.

Meanwhile, the new term looms. I am so not ready.

Yet another one. Been up on the software page for a week or so. Inevitably not yet on the App Store, like predecessor Lapidary, for the usual reasons of bureaucratic exhaustion. I will get around to it, probably, but it’s hard to feel motivated.

Elsewhere, it’s that transitional time of year when current students are barreling towards their final essay crisis while a whole new batch are prowling toward their first. And their teachers are grappling with both. Another year looms and I am not fucking ready.

In yet other news, The Vampire Lestat is just fabulous. I am rationing it, currently on ep 4. I laugh out loud watching. That title sequence is a work of genius.

Here we go again.

Mac version downloadable now from the software page. And I have actually overcome the ennui barrier and submitted this to the App Store — it can run as a standalone app, so there’s at least a chance it’ll sidestep some of the App Review shenanigans that plugins incur. It embeds Twelve too — with a bit of luck we’ll be able to kill two birds with one synth.

Update: Ha ha ha, it is to laugh. Let the shenanigans begin.

Yet another new thing hit the software page a week or two back.

Twelve, seen here hosted in Logic Pro, is only a pre-release and still needs some tweaking and polishing, but it should run okay. Mac only for now. The iOS version exists and may find its way to the App Store eventually, but I’m finding it hard to force myself to go through that palaver lately, and this isn’t quite at that stage yet.

Eagle-eyed viewers — were such creatures to exist, which I’m confident they don’t — might spot that Auxotroph also has not yet made it to the store, despite being ready ages ago, and the App Store version of Osculatrix is lagging behind the Mac one posted here. In theory I want to get all these apps up there. In practice the prospect of boarding the App Review treadmill again makes me want to crawl under a table and hide. It’s not even that painful, it just seems so pointless and exhausting.

Or maybe it’s old age. The timer flipped over again last week. I was mostly too busy marking exam scripts to enjoy it, though the day itself was pleasant enough.

Big one next year. Not really looking forward to that.

For the record: heatwave; aircon; rescaling; cheese and wine; antipodean voices but hapless failure to facetime back. Fleeting landmarks that future me probably won’t remember how to decrypt. But maybe they’ll spark something, I don’t know.