Groove Rider 2 Has Been Updated

JimAudio have updated Groove Rider 2, available to download, available for $34.99.

What’s new in version 1.1.0:

Introducing integration with the Novation Launchpad Pro mk3 midi controller, which includes:

• Access to the Session clip 16×16 grid from the controller. Launch and stop clips and scenes by pressing the corresponding pad or button. Toggle between Grid mode and Performance mode by pressing Session button;
• Hold Clear or Duplicate button on LP Pro and press/swipe pads to instantly delete or duplicate whole groups of clips in the Session Grid from the controller;
• Press Shift + Duplicate + Clip pad to instantly double clip’s loop size (Duplicate Loop function);
• Hold Quantize button + press Clip pad to perform a quantize on clip’s notes;
• Part Mute and Solo modes with visualized level meters on LP Pro device;
• Adjust part Levels, Pan and Send FX Amounts with fader banks, displayed on the LP Pro device;
• In Performance mode, four different pad modes (8×2 pads each) can be seen simultaneously, reflecting current GR2 state (Mute, Erase, Trigger, Step, Notes, Chords/Slices/Drums or Jump). Pad mode is selected with red track buttons in the bottom. Shift the layout up or down by pressing Shift + Up or Down arrow button;
• Octave selector (red Up/Down arrows), Bar selector for step mode (blue track buttons), Part select buttons (white Left/Right arrows);
• Shift + Undo/Redo, Shift + Tap Tempo, Shift + Metronome Click functions;
• New extended Step Editor mode (in addition to the standard one), which allows to display up to 32 steps simultaneously on the LP Pro device! Use bar select buttons to browse thru 16 bars of the clip. Add/remove drums or notes from steps, adjust step/note velocities and step probabilities right from the LP Pro device. Press a step to immediately select it in the GR2 Note Editor;
• Hold Clear button and tap/swipe the steps to clear them;
• Hold Duplicate button, tap a step (Copy) and then tap another step (or series) to distribute (Paste) the source step.

Other features and bug fixes in this update:

• Trigger conditions updated to allow easier assignment of the probability to the group of simultaneously played notes. You just set the condition function to the one “control” note in a group, and then set the “Prev” function to all the other notes. No need to shift the “control” note a bit earlier anymore, because now it has a higher priority over the other notes;
• Now you can draw velocities of selected notes with the second touch, while holding the velocity dragger with the first touch;
• Step mode, step selector: now you can tap on the piano roll (or drum list) in the Note Editor to select the note/drum lane you want to edit steps for. No need to drag up/down the 1st step selector pad;
• Step mode: now it works not only on the Note Editor page, but also when the other pages are shown;
• Step mode: every new step you add immediately gets selected in the Note Editor;
• When using pattern “Save As” dialog, you can now enter a blank name to generate another random pattern name;
• Clip text labels added on the Song timeline view. Select clip(s) and go to the hamburger menu -> Rename Clips;
• Fixed: Midi AU FX can now output various midi data, including midi CC’s, Program Change, Aftertouch / Pressure and Pitch Bend events (previously only note events were allowed);
• Fixed: Erase pad mode was not working properly in the Song Mode;
• Fixed: incorrect bar numbering for looped clips with non zero loopStart marker was displayed;
• Fixed a number of issues when the non standard Measure was selected for the Pattern.

Groove Rider 2 takes you to the next level of mobile music production with a brand new workflow! Being perfectly balanced between a groove box and a DAW, GR-2 can boost your creative musical inspiration in a way you couldn’t even imagine!

Perform live sets

Use 16 x 16 clip launch grid and Ableton Link feature to synchronize GR-2 with your other music apps and gear. Connect your midi controllers to control GR-2 parameters via midi. Crossfade between your patterns in a DJ style with onscreen crossfader and EQ controls.

Create full length tracks

Timeline based song mode editor allows you to arrange and edit midi clips in a professional DAW manner. Record and edit parameters automation. Copy, paste, duplicate clips as well as entire time ranges. Export & share your compositions.

Sketch your musical ideas

• Use layering for instruments (up to 3 layers per part)
• Process with built-in realtime insert effects, 3 IFX per part
• Tweak sound with 3-band EQ with visual controls
• Improvise with MFX (master effects) with onscreen XY controls, 3 MFX per pattern
• Add depth using 2 Send / Return FX busses with up to 3 effect slots in each bus
• Resample what you hear and edit right in place in the built-in Sample Editor
• Save your own presets and drum sets with audio previews for further use in other compositions

Use built-in instruments

• Sampler with realtime beat time stretching (Warp) and Slicing options, supports stereo samples of 16, 24 or 32 bit depth, up to 5 minutes long;
• 2-oscillator Synthesizer with over 280 oscillator preset programs, Filter and LFO modules with
• Sound Font 2 (sf2) sample bank player with ability to use imported sf2 banks;
• WaveTable synthesizer with ability to import user wavetables (Serum .wav format supported);
• Seamless integration with JimAudio Poison-202 and Pure Acid apps allows to use their integrated modules with sounds and presets without actually loading them as AUv3 audio units, which saves system resources and speeds up pattern loading process!

Features include:

• Supports Ableton Link, AUv3, AudioBus, Inter-App Audio, Core Midi, Virtual Midi In/Out, Bluetooth Midi
• Built-in Sample Editor with Record function
• Convenient sample and preset browser with preset previews
• Timeline based song mode editor
• Can host AUv3 Audio Unit instruments, Effects and Midi FX
• Internal library of Factory samples, presets and patterns to start from
• Supports importing your patterns created in Groove Rider GR-16
• Big variety of built-in effects include Delay, Chorus, Reverb, Shimmer, Pitch Shifter, Flangers, Phasers, Distortion & saturators, EQ, Filters, Slicers, Sidechain Compressor and Gate, Limiter, Maximizer and more!

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