Audio Damage have updated Circa Looper, available for $89.00 (desktop) and $7.99 (iPadOS).
What’s new in version 1.1:
- Gesture Recorders added to the Modulations page. These are a group of six loopers that, instead of audio, will loop the UI itself. Almost every control in Circa can be recorded and played back, either as a loop or a 1-shot. The transport works just like the audio transports (double click stop to RTZ, hold stop to clear). The loop toggle button allows you to switch between 1-shot playback and looping playback, and the scissors button trims any dead air at the front of the recording (useful when mousing or recording controls not on the top panel.) To prevent feedback loops, the gesture recorders can not record MIDI input; they only record actual UI manipulation. You can, however, play the gesture recorders with MIDI input, via two new controls in the momentary assign lists.
- Play position is now a continuous modulation target. This is, as you may imagine, somewhat experimental. GLHF
- Playback volume is is now ducked while scrubbing position. It was felt by several users that the scrubbing was too loud; we have addressed this.
- Slices were not displaying in the UI when editor was re-opened. This has been fixed.
- Several bugs related to waveform start and end point manipulation have been sent to live on a farm in the country.
- Various other bug fixes and optimizations.
A creative looping powerhouse. Stack six stereo loops, modulate in real time, and sculpt evolving textures right on your iPad.
PLEASE READ: Circa is not a stand-alone app. It is an AUv3 plugin and requires an AUV3 host such as Garageband, Logic, AUM (recommended), Cubase, etc.
Circa is a powerful multi-channel looping instrument designed for iPad, made for musicians, producers, and sound explorers.
With six independent stereo loop layers, deep modulation control, precision syncing, and built-in effects, Circa lets you capture spontaneous performances, sculpt evolving textures, and push loops far beyond repetition. Whether you’re building complex rhythmic patterns or diving into ambient soundscapes, Circa’s touch-friendly design gives you hands-on creative control, full MIDI mapping, and drag-and-drop audio export for seamless integration with your DAW.
Inspired by contemporary digital loopers and tools like the BOSS RC-505 and Monome Norns, Circa combines playfulness with precision — a creative playground for modern loop-based composition.
Each layer can sync to the host, a master loop, or free run, and can be triggered in sync, with an audio signal, or freely. Circa has seven stereo outputs (including a dedicated cue output for monitoring) and built-in reverb and delay. Add in a complete MIDI control system and Circa is a full looping workstation.
Features include:
- Multi-Layered Looping – Circa has six layers that can operate independently or in sync with each other and/or the host. Circa can record from the stereo input, or self-record via an internal buss for interesting feedback possibilities.
- Designed To Be Touched And Played – Circa’s user interface is made for tactile manipulation, with touch strips for speed and position (including dedicated pages). The position strip can be further subdivided with slices. All this works together to turn a looping effect in to a playable instrument.
- Easy To Get Along With – Circa’s layers each have an undo for destructive edits like recording, overdubbing, and erasing. In addition, product-wide tooltips make learning as easy as hovering. (Not available in iOS.)
- Controllability – Circa has a full complement of true MIDI controller destinations. Use virtually any MIDI device to control most of Circa’s looping features.
- Self-Contained – Circa has a full internal mixer, filtering on each layer, and studio-quality send reverb, send delay, parametric EQ and compressor taken directly from Audio Damage’s extensive effect library.
- Expandable And Performance-Ready – Circa has 7 outputs in all: six assignable stereo outputs and a cue output for monitoring. Send any layer to any of the six stereo outputs, while keeping the cue for soloing, recording, and editing, unheard by the audience.
- Ecosystem-Aware – Circa’s user presets are cross-platform compatible, and work on any instance of Circa, whether on macOS, Windows, Linux, or iOS. In addition, sessions created in GargageBand or Logic on iOS will open the desktop version on macOS if you have purchased a license to that version.
Watch Doug’s iverview HERE.
Circa Looper is available to PC, Mac, Linux and iPadOS users (VST3, AU, AAX, LV2, CLAP and AUv3).
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