Ascolti! vs PolyPipe

Radio in your pocket, wherever you are. We've been bringing radio to listeners since 2009, and this is our biggest update ever. Rebuilt from the ground up: faster, better looking, and smarter than ever. Listen to your favorite radio stations live and in high quality. Wake up to the radio, fall asleep to it, and take it with you, even in your car thanks to CarPlay. ◆ WHAT'S NEW IN THIS VERSION ◆ • COMPLETELY NEW DESIGN A modern, clean, and intuitive interface that's faster and more enjoyable to use. • CARPLAY SUPPORT Listen to the radio in your car safely and easily, right on your vehicle's screen. • ACCOUNT AND CLOUD SYNC Sign up once and keep your favorite and custom stations synced across all your devices. • PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION Unlock unlimited favorites, unlimited custom stations, unlimited alarms, cloud sync, and priority support. Available monthly, quarterly, or annually. ◆ KEY FEATURES ◆ • HIGH-QUALITY STREAMING Live listening in MP3 and AAC+ formats, without unnecessary interruptions. • BACKGROUND PLAY Music continues playing while you use other apps or lock the screen. • AUTOMATIC RECONNECT Each station can have up to three streaming addresses. If one doesn't work, the app automatically switches to the backup. • FAVORITE STATIONS Save your favorites with a tap and rearrange them as you like. • CUSTOM STATIONS Missing a station? Add any internet stream yourself. • EDITING STATIONS Customize names, descriptions, and addresses to your liking. • SLEEP TIMER Fall asleep to your favorite radio. Automatically turns off with gradually fading volume. • WAKE UP TO THE RADIO Set alarms with your favorite station or one of the built-in sounds, with custom days, times, and tones. • STATION DETAILS View station information, visit the website, and find contact information. • NOW PLAYING Find out what song is playing and the artist, when the station provides this information. ◆ WHY ASCOLTI!? ◆ • A trusted companion for radio listeners since 2009 • All-new design: fast, modern, and pleasing to the eye • CarPlay for safe listening while driving • All stations in one place, plus your own • Sync across all devices • No intrusive ads while listening • Regular updates and new stations Anywhere, anytime. ASCOLTI! follows you. Download it and discover a new way to listen to the radio. Questions or suggestions? Contact us from the app. Your opinion matters to us. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

PolyPipe is a multi-lane, polyphonic AUv3 sequencer plugin designed for creating evolving musical patterns rather than fixed, repetitive loops. Instead of thinking in terms of a single step sequence, PolyPipe lets you build multiple independent lanes, each with its own rhythm, pitch logic, octave behavior, probability, and modulation data — all running together as a coherent musical system. It comprises elements of some of my favourite sequencers of all time, all rolled into a single interface. At its core, PolyPipe takes incoming MIDI notes (or internally generated notes) and uses them as a musical “seed.” These notes are then processed through patterns, scales, transposition rules, and step logic to generate new musical phrases in real time. This makes it especially suited for generative music, complex arpeggiation, bass-and-chord splitting, and long-form evolving sequences. Each lane in PolyPipe is its own sequencer voice. A lane contains one or more patterns, and each pattern is made up of steps. Steps don’t just define when a note plays — they can also define how it plays. A step can include pitch offsets, velocity, gate length, strumming, probability, repeats (ratchets), ties for legato behavior, and even chord information. Patterns can be enabled or disabled independently, shifted by octaves, and combined with global transposition. Because lanes can have different lengths, directions, and step modes, the resulting sequences naturally phase against each other, creating variation without manual intervention. PolyPipe applies musical logic at the MIDI output stage rather than hard-coding notes upfront. Pitch values can be forced into a chosen scale and key, allowing even highly experimental patterns to stay musically coherent. Different step modes (such as forward, backward, ping-pong, random, chord, bass, or hybrid note/chord modes) let each lane behave differently, from traditional arpeggios to controlled chaos. PolyPipe Sequencer is built for musicians who want to explore ideas quickly, create unique patterns, and discover results they wouldn’t think to program manually. It rewards experimentation: small changes to probability, repeats, or step logic can dramatically alter the musical output while staying rhythmically locked and musically usable. PolyPipe Features ○ Multi-Lane Sequencer: with 4 independent lanes. ○ Pattern-Based Structure: where each lane contains multiple patterns. ○ Advanced Step Parameters: including pitch offset, velocity, gate length, auto-roll, repeats (ratchets), and legato ties. ○ Chord-Aware Steps: allowing steps to trigger chords, rotated voicing, or individual notes depending on lane mode. ○ Multiple Step Modes such as Up, Down, Ping-Pong, Random, Drunk, Chord, Bass, and hybrid note/chord modes. ○ Chord Strumming: allowing guitar like strumming patterns. ○ Polyrhythmic Playback: through lanes and patterns of differing lengths and directions. ○ Probabilistic Sequencing: with per-step chance and variable repeat behavior for evolving patterns. ○ Octave Transposition Control: per pattern and globally for rapid harmonic variation. ○ MIDI CC Sequencing: allowing lanes to output modulation data. ○ Real-Time MIDI Interaction: where incoming notes influence pitch selection, chords, and playback behavior. ○ Live-Safe Parameter Editing: with immediate feedback and no need to stop playback. ○ Generative-Focused Design: optimized for long-form evolving sequences rather than static loops. ○ Long Patterns: up to 32 steps in length, chain-able up to 128 steps. ○ 4 MIDI Output Ports: allowing each of the 4 phase-locked arpeggiators to be routed to a different instrument. ○ Global Swing: allowing 8th- and 16th-note swing across all 4 arpeggiators. ○ Rhythm Generator: creates rhythmic patterns that are none chord/scale specific.