Yes the Mac/PC versions are uploading now. How does half an hour sound?

perfect !
Thank you !!

OK try it now and see how you get on.

I've had some problems using the Google Docs server but I can swap the files back to the main website if you have problems.

downloading ok !
Installation ok !

everything's fine !
Let's go to play !

Thanks a lot ;)

Installed Win version on XP but it fails to start. In task manager I can see nanostudio.exe running (taking about 5 meg of memory) but nothing shows on screen. Tried restarting and reinstalling but nothing works. Any ideas? I want to get a feel for it before buying the iPhone version.

Thanks

Rob

I used XP all through development so it's the most tested OS! However, the PC version isn't 'production quality' (that's why it's free) and it's probably some hardware/software combination.

I'd recommend trying to download and instal DirectX manually. NanoStudio uses a pretty old version of DirectX to improve compatibility issues with older machines but don't worry, installing this won't 'downgrade' any DirectX you currently have installed (it sits alongside).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=740ac79a-5b72-4...

If that fails, let me know your graphics card/sound card (if you know) and I'll have a further ponder.

Cheers, I'll give that a try

I would like to say thank you to Blip Interactive , this program is absolutly amazing .
The Pc version works perfectly well at home on win xp .
i haven't got any apple product but i will buy an ipod and ipad just for this wonderfull app !

I'll go purchased the app on apple store now !

PS: I just made a little track , may be i can upload it here ?

Excellent! There's a thread going on over here http://forums.blipinteractive.co.uk/node/85 with some songs people have created.

I hope to have proper SoundCloud embedding working in the forum next week.

You could always buy a 2nd hand iPod Touch 2G - NanoStudio will run fine on that.

Thanks for your answer , my track is on the thread ;)
i have a question about the performance of the app on the different versions of ipod :
It's really fast on an old PC , Do you think i have the same speed/performance on an Ipod 2G ? and is there a big difference on nanostudio between an ipod 2G vs 3G ?

I don't have an iPod 3G, but I suspect that NanoStudio might be up to 50% faster on a 3G vs 2G. I use an iPod 2G for some testing and it runs fine (the iPod 2G's faster than an iPhone 3G, and it runs fine on that too).

From a mobile music making point of view, the iPod is missing speakers (which are pretty useless for anything serious anyway) and a microphone (you can pick up an external accessory on eBay for a couple of quid though). On the plus side, it's a lot slimmer.

I think that performance from lowest to highest is something like:

iPhone 2G
iPod Touch 1G
iPhone 3G
iPod Touch 2G
iPhone 3GS
iPod Touch 3G
iPad/iPhone 4

Wikipedia have a pretty good entry to make sense of it all.

Running it on a PC puts it all into perspective. Bearing in mind that the iPhone has a lot of hand optimized vector assembler code, and the PC is almost unoptimized - even my 5 year old PC runs all of NanoStudio with about 1% of one processor. Shows that mobile computing power still has a way to go.

Great answer thanks !
I think i will go for an 2nd hand touch 2G (with good studio monitoring ;) ) and later for the Ipad ;)