Bhajis Loops for Palm OS

About Bhajis Loops

Bhajis Loops gives you everything you need to create stunning compositions on the go, or to play complex arrangements during gigs: a complete sample editor, virtual instruments with wavetable synthesis, pattern editor and sequencer, effects, automation, and even a special mode for live performances!You wish you could always have your keyboard or your computer with you... Use Bhajis Loops as a portable and ubiquitous studio.You perform on stage... Use Bhajis Loops to play accompaniments.You are a composer or songwriter... Use Bhajis Loops as a notebook, whenever inspiration strikes.Bhajis Loops is all you need to create music on your Palm.Bhajis Loops featuresSample editor

• Samples can be loaded from SamplePacks, .wav files stored on the memory card or sf2 SoundFonts.
• Sample editing functions: cut, copy, paste, trim, undo.
• Effects and transformations: loop cross-fade, gain, normalisation, distortion, reverse, downsampling.
• Draw waveforms directly with the stylus!
• Built-in voice recorder (not available on Sony Clié devices).
• Sample size is only limited by the amount of free RAM.
• Modified samples can be saved as .wav files.

Synthesis section

• Your song can use up to 64 instruments.
• Wavetable synthesis.
• Low-pass / high-pass filter, cutoff and volume envelope.
• LFO controlling the pitch and the filter cutoff.
• Instrument layering / Keybaord mapping.
• Different voicing mode - mono, legato, polyphonic...
• Transposition.
• Support for micro-tuning (for ethnic or historic intervals).

Pattern editor

• 8ppq resolution (32 steps per 4/4 bar) with shuffle.
• 3 editors: Piano-roll, Grid, and note parameter editor to set velocity, vibrato, pan values for each individual note.
• Complete editing: cut, copy, paste, merge, demix, undo.
• Pattern recorder for realtime or step-by-step recording of patterns, using an on-screen keyboard or the keys/buttons of your Palm.
• Pattern library to easily manage a collection of frequently used patterns across songs.
• Random note generator and humanization function.
• Scale feature to constraint the input/recorded notes in a given scale.

Song editor

• 8 tracks on which patterns can be mixed - A pattern in itself can contain up to 64 instruments!
• Complete set of editing features with undo.
• 3 zoom levels.
• Looping, markers.
• MIDIfile import/export.
• Wav file rendering.

Mixing and effects

• Mixer with main fader, pan, effect send, mute / solo.
• 4 independent effect buses + one global send.
• Open plug-in architecture - new effects are added with each update, and you can even develop your own!
• Reverb, chorus, flanger, phaser, pitch-shifting, distortion, EQ, and many more effects!
• XY pad: You can control two synthesis parameters in realtime with the position of your stylus or your finger on the touchscreen!

Automation

• Volume, pan and most of the synthesis parameters (filter cutoff, resonance, envelope, LFO, effect send) can be automatized.
• Effect plug-ins parameters can be as well automatized.
• Intuitive vectorial editor taking advantage of the touchscreen and stylus.
• A complete range of editing features.
• Stylus movements in the XY pad can be recorded as automation tracks.

Live! mode

• Once you have composed your song, structure it by defining sections and bridges.
• Bhajis Loops Live! mode allows you to chain these sections in realtime, and jump between them.
• Exclusive Warp feature allowing complex transition rules like "If verse 1 is playing, and if the next requested section is verse 2, play verse 1 and then play verse 2 from its third bar". The accompaniment follows what you are playing, not the opposite!
• Mute buttons.
• Assignable controllers.
• Controllers can also be assigned to the hardware buttons / keys.

Other features

• Full support of the 160x160, 160x240, 320x320, 320x480 and 480x320 screen modes.
• Complete Reference manual available in several formats. Contextual help in all the dialog boxes.
• Free song replayer.
• WinAMP plug-in to replay your songs on your PC.
• PC conduit to render songs as .wav files, export MIDIfiles, samples or individual tracks during Ho