Tuesday, April 26, 2011

YouTube video showing the HotPaw Morse Decoder

Here are 2 YouTube video's I found which show the HotPaw Morse Decoder in operation:

Morse with iPod Touch

and

Morse Code Decoder iPhone App

They both show the built-in spectrum analyzer. Pretty cool.

App Updates

On 4/20, the HotPaw Music Spectrograph was approved for App store distribution. Music Spectrograph is a great way to visualize live music and sound. It uses a scrolling piano roll display similar to some midi composition tools. It took Apple 7 days to approve Music Spectrograph.

On 4/11, the HotPaw Morse Decoder was updated to version 1.6.2, with a new low pass filter and better WPM estimation logic. It took Apple 2 days to review this update after it was submitted.

On 3/30, the HotPaw inTuna Strobe Guitar Tuner was updated to version 3.0.2, with fixes for a potential app freeze up. It took Apple 4 days to review this update.

On 3/23, HotPaw Basic for iOS was updated to version 1.5.3, with some fixes to matrix multiplication. It took Apple 7 days to review this update.

On 2/25, the HotPaw Blind Talking Tuner was released to the iTunes App Store. It took Apple 9 days to review this new app.

On 2/22, the HotPaw inTuna Strobe Guitar Tuner HD (for iPad) was updated to version 1.2.1, with fixes for audio recording occasionally cutting out. It took Apple 2 days to approve this update.

On 2011-Feb-08, iChromatic HD (strobe tuner for iPad) was updated to version 1.0.2, with added support for A=415Hz tuning for historic/vintage instruments. It took Apple 4 days to approve this update.

HotPaw Productions announced Music Spectrograph for iOS

Santa Clara, CA - HotPaw Productions announces Music Spectrograph 1.0, now available from Apple's iTunes App store. Visualize sound as musical notes on a piano roll. See mic input graphed in real-time, almost as it might appear in a MIDI music editor, to assist with music transcription. Find notes hidden inside chords, or just watch the rise and fall in the pitch and all the overtones of the sounds around you. The Music Spectrograph uses real-time signal processing to create a scrolling 12th-octave spectrogram, with each frequency band centered on a musical note.

The Music Spectrograph app might prove helpful for for music education, music transcription, acoustics understanding, speech therapy or vocal training.

Mrs. Nicholson says: "Wow, that's a really cool looking app. What's it do?". The developer's cats just looked at the app and went back to napping (as it obviously wasn't a mouse or a bird).

Ron Nicholson founded HotPaw Productions in 1999, first developing mobile apps for PalmOS devices, and has been developing iOS apps since the App store first opened. There are over 20 iPhone and iPad apps developed by HotPaw Productions the iOS App store, including the inTuna Strobe Guitar Tuner, Sing-inTuna, and HotPaw Basic. Copyright (C) 2011 HotPaw Productions. All Rights Reserved. Apple, iTunes, iPhone and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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Ron Nicholson
Developer
rhn@hotpaw.com

HotPaw Website Updated

The HotPaw website has been completely updated, with new css, and a new 3-column look. Many thanks to lizdesign for the web site design and many of the icons, including:

Music Spectrum icon