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Theremini page and user-contributed presets

This site’s scope is Animoog but this entry is about short page with some documentation and links about it.

What’s also newsworthy is the addition of 65 Theremini presets graciously provided by Synthguy and made available on that page. Thanks to the official Theremini Advanced Software Editor app, we can expect the community of Theremini players to create numerous interesting Theremini presets.

Equally exciting news for all Theremini enthusiasts is the upcoming firmware update that bring many improvements and new features to the instrument.

Enjoy the holiday break and more Animoog-related news in the coming weeks! — Satri :-)

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Contribute to the Animoog article on Wikipedia

Amongst the infinite sources of information available, Wikipedia stands out as one of the most popular and reliable (citation needed! ;-). I wasn’t involved in the initial Animoog page on Wikipedia, but I started contributing over a year ago. This morning, I took the time to add quite a lot of information and references on the presets artists, Animoog’s TEC Award, mentioning Animoog as the Theremini’s engine, and various other improvements.

There’s still a lot to improve, and since you are fellow Animoog enthusiasts, I invite you to take a look and contribute to the Animoog article on Wikipedia.

Examples of potential improvements: adding screenshots and translations. Cheers! — Alex

Major Animoog Discount: $4,99 / $1,99

If you’re reading this site, you most probably already own and love the Animoog app. However, you may have friends and relatives that may benefit from discovering how wonderful the Animoog app is!

Certainly only for a limited time, Animoog is significantly discounted:

Such discounts also took place last year and lasted a few days. Great if that’s an excuse for buying it! Enjoy!

Animoog for iPhone 1.1.6 Released

I don’t have a phone, so my experience with Animoog currently focuses on the iPad. That said, all Animoog releases are good news to me nonetheless! Here’s the official changelog for version 1.1.6 of Animoog for iPhone, made available today.

What’s new

  • Updated MIDI fixing MIDI out problems
  • In app purchases improvements
  • IAA MIDI improvements

This comes less than week after the release of Animoog 2.2.3. Enjoy!

Animoog 2.2.3 Released

See, we’re really getting frequent Animoog updates now. Isn’t that great! Version 2.2.3 released today is mainly targeting bugs, and once the main ones will be squashed, we can hope for interesting new features to be implemented (yes, I’m a natural optimist ;-)).

Meanwhile, the official version 2.2.3 release notes:

  • General MIDI Out fixes
  • IAA Midi and CoreMidi now simultaneously trigger events
  • Audiobus support improvements

Enjoy!

Animoog 2.2.2 Released

Isn’t that nice? After a long break of over a year without any news, we now get Animoog updates regularly! Hope the trend will keep up! Version 2.2.1 came only about three weeks ago. And the iPhone version a few days ago.

For the Animoog update released earlier today, version 2.2.2, the official release notes are:

Bug Fixes:

  • File not Found message and app stuck when AudioCopy from 4 Track
  • Animoog Midi In appears as an option for Midi Out
  • MIDI IN state always appears as OFF
  • Canceling Restore Purchases, app will ignore Cancel user’s request
  • Choosing Delete causes crash, when no saved project on the list
  • Saving project while in record mode, app crashes
  • Choosing AudioPaste option while in record mode, cause crash

Unsurprisingly, Animoog users  over the official Moog forums have apparently found features not working as expected. Hopefully, these issues will be addressed in a future version. I’m happy, Animoog gets developer love, which means we get a better Animoog with every update :-)

Animoog for iPhone 1.1.5 Released

Moog released yesterday an update to Animoog for iPhone, now at version 1.1.5. As far as I can tell, it’s essentially a bug fix, with the official release notes being:

  • Audiobus support
  • Splash screen now properly displayed

This update comes less than 3 weeks after the 1.1.3 and 1.1.4 updates. While users on the official Moog forum indicates not all known bugs have been fixed, color me happy to see frequent updates to our beloved Animoog app.

Animoog 2.2.1 and Animoog for iPhone 1.1.3 Released

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There we go! Today were released both Animoog 2.2.1, the iPad version, and Animoog for iPhone 1.1.3. These welcomed releases bring iOS 8 compatibility and Audiobus + Inter App Audio support. Here are the official release notes.

For Animoog 2.2.1:

  • Audiobus 2 Support
  • Inter App Audio
  • AudioCopy 2 Support
  • iOS 8 Compatible

For Animoog for iPhone 1.1.3:

  • iOS8 Support

That’s not entirely true for the iPhone version… the release 1.1.3 also bring fixes that make all the new shiny features of version 1.1.2 actually work fine. There’s also a few minor interface changes and improvements that you’ll discover while playing with the new versions. One of those is the new previous/next buttons in the presets list, another one is the new Timbres browser. There’s also a new look for the expansions list in the Store tab. Have you found anything else new or changed?

After updating to the latest Animoog version, lots of my presets were not playing fine: several timbres were missing. The solution for me was to restore purchases from the ‘Store’ tab. I still have issues with some presets, but I suspect they are all presets I manually installed and which may require new direct manipulation to make them work (see the section at the bottom of this page regarding manually installing expansion packs).

While these updates ‘only’ bring current iOS and Audiobus + IAA support, and the improvements wish list includes plenty of other exciting features, this is still great that Moog is back at actively working on Animoog development. Rejoice! We have new versions of Animoog! :-)

Warning: iOS 8 and Animoog 2.1.1 Incompatibility

Dear Animoog users, here’s an important warning for those who want to keep playing with Animoog while we wait for the upcoming update which should show up in the coming days or weeks.

According to reports on the official Animoog forum, the current version of Animoog, version 2.2.1, is incompatible and can’t be launched under iOS 8, which was released today.

If you want to keep playing Animoog, stick with iOS 7 until further news!

What’s in development for Animoog

Content removed at Moog’s request. The former entry included publicly accessible content provided by a reliable source, however, this content that wasn’t meant to be publicly accessible. It has been removed at the source and Moog requested we remove it from this site too. We certainly meant no harm to Animoog in any way. — Alex (aka Satri) for Animoog.org