Tondo v1.0 is now available for sale! An amazingly fast turnaround from the Apple Reviewers! And what luck - a sample I made with it was featured on the Sound Is Art blog just the other day! http://margaretnoble.net/blog/spectral-paint/

What the heck is Tondo? It's a real time spectrogram loop painting program. You are finger painting sound. You can also record a sound and analyze it into a spectrum which you can then draw on top of, erase, add echos, etc.

Tondo is very flexible.

For those of you who like tracker-like bleepy-blorpy music, you can lock the time to your favorite quantization and build up little rhythmic patterns. The loop it plays can be up to 1 minute long - but you can precisely set it so you can make LP lock grooves (1.8 seconds), 78 skips (0.76923 seconds) or other odd lengths. I use this feature to make the soundtrack for part of my upcoming video "POWERS OF ONE" which BTW, you should go and vote for over at http://challenges.core77.com/contests/powers-of-10/ideas/80 . That's a whole other project. But I digress.

Tondo exports voice data and audio via iTunes' document interface, and also via its own Bonjour-enabled web server. Like Droneo, it exports and imports editable voices to the clipboard, so you can paste them into emails, blogs, presentations or generate them algorithmically - sort of. Also like Droneo, if you navigate to a "*.tondo" file with Safari it will launch Tondo and load the voice.

And blah blah blah. If you are still interested, zip over to http://www.jhhl.net/iPhone/Tondo/ and read the instructions.

For old fans of my software - going back to 1988 or so - Tondo is the iPhone descendent of my old Amiga program RGS. For people who have seen old demos of this software for the last year and a half, it used to be called Loopi. I changed the name so it wouldn't be confused with another iPhone app.

I'm so happy it got approved so fast, I'm dropping the price two bucks to $1.99 until January 1st.

Reviewers! Email me for a promo code if you don't have a deductible $1.99 to spend.

Purchasers! Please rate this and my other programs! Ratings are crucial to us iPhone Appwrights!

Enough exhortations! I'm really happy about this!

Merry Lunar Eclipse and Solstice,
-- Henry