This app makes the Piteå School of Music pipe organ sample set available for playing with MIDI keyboards and a MIDI pedal connected to your iOS or macOS device. The sample set was released by Lars Palo under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license, see http://www.familjenpalo.se/vpo/download .
For more information about the app and the underlying Napo framework, please visit the support page http://polaron.de/Pitea/ , the Napo documentation at http://polaron.de/Napo/ and in particular the user manual at http://polaron.de/Napo/manual .
*** For your attention ***
This app is a huge download of about 1.5 GB. Make sure there is enough free SSD space on your device.
more Upgraded to Napo 5.17.2. Fixes breakdowns of the app when the user tries to configure the behaviour of MIDI controllers 64 and 66.
4.6 19/06/2023
Upgraded to Napo 5.17.1, which fixes the dysfunctional windchest volume controls and tremulants. You can skip this version if you do not use these features.
4.5 25/05/2023
Upgraded from Napo 5.13 to Napo 5.17, which brings temperaments functionality and other changes as detailed in https://polaron.de/Napo/history/index.html#5.17 .
4.4 16/05/2023
Upgraded to Napo 5.13.
- The sustain function of the screen keyboards can be turned off.
- Now supporting all currently known Launchpad models.
- Dry/wet control for the convolution reverb.
- Redesigned reverb control: AU Reverb, Convolution Reverb and the rendering of sample releases can now be controlled independently. You can play the sample releases and still add artificial reverb.
- Included metronome (long-tap the Console view icon).
- Optional coloured borders around the stop buttons. This makes the assignment of the stops to the manuals more apparent (long-tap the Console view icon).
- Fixes problems with iOS 15 prewarming.
4.3 02/02/2022
Upgraded to Napo 5.4. Main changes:
- Support for recording in 32 bit float WAV format.
- New recorder configuration editor (long-tap the Start Rec. button).
- Auto-sustain for screen keyboards: When you tap a key only shortly, it will be sustained. When you tap for longer than 0.1 seconds, it will be released when the tap ends.
- Screen keyboards can send MIDI messages.
- Shared impulse responses. The IRs are shared by all updated Napo apps. Use StrandOrgan to install the factory IRs. You can use the Thafknar app to manage the IRs.
- Improved Launchpad handling.
- Support for Launchpad X.
- Audiobus updated to v3.0.15.
4.2 29/08/2021
This is a maintenance update to Napo 5.2 which cares for the following issues that could arise under some circumstance when the app was run in iOS 14 / iPadOS 14:
- The stop button labels were truncated.
- Certain SysEx MIDI messages lead to warnings.
4.1 18/10/2020
Upgraded to Napo 5.1.
There is now also a macOS version of this app, available by Universal Purchase.
4.0 12/05/2020
This is a maintenance release for iPad Pro 11" and iPad Pro 12.9" (3rd generation) that corrects the display mode of the Console view. Users of other device models don't need to care.
Because Napo 5 will still need some weeks of work, and we do not want iPad Pro (3rd generation) users having to any longer cope with the wrong presentation of the stop buttons, we decided to roll out this intermediate release.
3.8 12/01/2020
Napo 4.21:
- Automatic notes off at the transition from suspended to foreground.
Napo 4.22:
- Status bar always hidden on iPhone / iPod touch in landscape mode.
- Bluetooth MIDI: Scanning for peripheral devices.
Napo 4.23:
- Virtual MIDI: Optional autoconnection to Virtual MIDI senders.
- Fixed a bug in the handling of MIDI controller messages that could lead to lost or misinterpreted messages.
3.7 25/02/2019
Upgraded to Napo 4.20:
- Improved Launchpad support.
- Support for button lamps in Hoffrichter and Pausch-e consoles.
- Adaptions for iPhone X.
- Support for Slide Over and Split View (on suitable devices).
- Adapted the layout of the stop buttons in the portrait mode of the virtual keyboard view to the layout in the landscape mode.
- Option to disable sustain pedals.
- Option to disable warnings about unexpected note-on/off messages.
- Bugfixes regarding stuck notes during the use of a sustain pedal or when changing the transposition.
- Corrected the ordering of the buttons Prev Bank/Next Bank and Prev Comb/Next Comb in the Launchpad default setting.
3.6 24/02/2018
Upgraded to Napo 4.17.
- Bugfix: The Bank button of the Console view works fine again in all iOS versions and without the need to have iCloud Drive enabled.
- Bugfix: Sampe rate changing is repaired.
- Bugfix: The Show Load button displays the correct state.
- Bugfix: The ordering of the labels of the PP,...,FF combination buttons in landscape mode is corrected. Button M is renamed to MF.
- Changed Launchpad handling.
- New: Support for the Launchpad Mini.
- New: Status bar visibility can be configured.
- Performance optimisations for the virtual keyboard.
- Improved connection handling of MIDI source devices.
- In the Console view, bank and combination indexes are shown starting with 0 instead of 1.
- Increased width and hittable area of black keys and reduced hittable area of white keys of the virtual keyboard, to make it easier to use.
- Increased size of the "+" add bank button in the combinations editor.
3.5 11/10/2017
- Bugfix: Stop buttons in the virtual keyboard view on iPhone are now functional.
- Upgrade to Napo 4.16: The ABCDE combination buttons can now be labelled PP,P,M,F,FF.
3.4 05/09/2017
The app is now universal. For a good experience on iPhone, at least an iPhone 5 is recommended.
Upgraded to Napo 4.15:
- The behaviour when starting and ending an audio recording can be configured (ask for file name or save automatically, with standard file name).
- 24 bit support for the audio recorder.
- Volumes of ranks can be configured ('intonation').
- Suspend/resume for demo pieces.
- When doing "Learn" for a MIDI button, the default mode is now "Toggle On", as this is the most common case.
- Support for sustain pedals. (For those who like it.)
- As this seems to be more common, we now use the range 1,...,16 instead of 0,...,15 when presenting MIDI channel numbers to the user.
- Recording can be started and stopped via MIDI.
- Support for Novation Launchpad MK2. The Launchpad could be used in previous versions also, but now Napo can control is button lights.
- Support for the Files app of iOS 11.
- Improvements in the memory management of the tone generator.
- Audiobus updated to v2.3.3.
- The Napo online user manual can be opened from within the action menu of the Settings view.
3.3 29/08/2017
This is a maintenance release which updates the app to Napo 4.10. The changes are:
- Audiobus updated to v2.3.1.
- Bugfix: MIDI switch definitions are now cleared when you load or reset settings.
- Bugfix: There was an issue that led to annoying error messages when a combination bank was deleted that was currently selected in the Console view.
- Performance optimisations for the screen keyboard.
- A new, less intrusive log mechanism for MIDI connection / disconnection messages and the like.
- The badge number of the app icon now displays a countdown when the app is running in the background, to indicate that the app can receive MIDI messages and create sound.
- MIDI velocity can now be used to control the volume of the pipe sound.
3.2 19/07/2016
This is a bugfix release. The update to Napo 4.8 cares for following issues:
- Direct combination renaming works again.
- Volume changes are done smoother to reduce crackling.
- Audiobus is updated to version 2.2.1 (for iOS 9).
Because Pitea is now a paid app and includes all previous in-app purchase functionality, the in-app purchases view is gone.
In this version, the sample files for the notes e'' and fis'' of the Positiv Principal 4' have been replaced because they had a too strong 'chirp' at the beginning.
3.1 27/08/2015
Updated to Napo 4.7.
*** First of all ***: Because of significant changes in Napo's MIDI functionality, you need to redo the MIDI configuration of StrandOrgan after installing this update.
Now the fine print:
- Audio: Improved overdrive protection for iOS reverb.
- Audio Recorder: Can be started immediately or with first sound.
- Audio Recorder: User can specify the file name when finishing the recording.
- Audiobus: Updated to v2.1.6.1.
- Demo player: Can now operate several manuals and pedal.
- GUI: Fullscreen mode for virtual keyboards.
- GUI: Menu entries for saving / loading ABCDE combinations to / from combination banks.
- GUI: Background operation is displayed by green color of organ switching tab bar icon and can be toggled by long-pressing this icon.
- GUI: Updated Glyphicons to v1.9.
- iCloud: Support for saving combination banks, recordings and saved settings to iCloud (iOS 7+).
- MIDI: Multiple channels for each keyboard / pedal with configurable note ranges (e.g. for splitting or combining MIDI keyboards).
- MIDI: Stops etc. can be controlled by program change messages.
- MIDI: Support for MIDI over Bluetooth (iOS 8+ on devices that support Bluetooth LE).
- Monophonic Bass: Changed behaviour. Releasing the lowest key doesn't anymore trigger the bass for the second lowest key.
- Monophonic Bass: Is now independent from MIDI settings.
- Settings: Saved settings can be displayed and loaded directly by long-pressing the settings tab bar icon.
3.0 24/07/2015
Upgraded to Napo 4.4. This does in particular fix the Audiobus error message on iOS 8. For a detailed list of new features please look at the version history of PiteaMini: https://itunes.apple.com/app/piteamini/id545235579?mt=8
Additionally there is an "ABCDE" combination buttons mode in Napo 4.4. The new mode is a free feature and independent of the bank/combination system.
The virtual keyboard is an in-app purchase. You don't need to purchase "All Notes" to play the full note range with the virtual keyboard.
The internal ordering of the keyboards/pedal has changed. This means that you need to adapt the keyboard channels in the MIDI configuration.
Attention please: This version drops Audiobus support on iOS 5/6.
2.0 07/10/2014
Upgraded to Napo 5.17.2. Fixes breakdowns of the app when the user tries to configure the behaviour of MIDI controllers 64 and 66.
more Version 4.6 19/06/2023
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