peter wow! Peter you have certainly been a buzzy bee this is another 200% improvement in all respect.
You definitely deserve a break , i am increasing my score to 8/10 the other 2 points are for all the bugs that are still there but the general conceipt and how it functions is now very usable, i love the double tap on loop to zoom this is really fast operation, the pinch zoom now seems to function well , the controls at bottom are great, being able to jump around loops is great to test them, really if i overlook the little bugs that are left the software is very usable to create accurate loops , here are some things i found after 5 minutes of use,
On ipad, when in play, selecting another loop than changing your mind and selecting different loops seems to confuse the playing order , it still wants to follow all previous selections instead of just going to the last selection.
I tried BPM again and find it has potential but needs a really good look at, there are lots of issues with it to make it work, firstly you need the BPM display and adjustment in this window, you need a simple way of finding the beat even if its a simple tap button next to the BPM window, perhaps when you double on a loop play it, tap the beat button it creates a beat pattern on screen then you can adjust the end handles to adjust to the beat points, just a thought.
I tried using external software that works out the beat for you and entered this in to ST3 the beats were only ok in some places, i then used a simple metronome and tapped to the beat it gave me a rough average beat i entered that to ST3 this prooved to be more accurate throughout the song and yes it could be helpfull, but if we hat a tap button and when zoomed in on a loop if each loop had its own BPM memory we could just tap through the loop once get all the beat points and then use the side handles to snap to those beats, just another suggestion, this way every loop would have its own BPM allowing for change in tempos in songs, you would have all the tools you need in the window you are working in.
Anyway back to things right im off on holidays to Bali for a couple of weeks myself but will use all my spare time to provide feedback , i might be even be performing there as its my sons wedding so no rest for the wicked, overall i think the loop idea is a big winner, i am even considering approaching my ABC radio manager to consider using an ipad hooked in to our radio switching panels as an emergency playback system where i can create 12 emergency loops for all our broadcasts and when shit hits the fan i just choose the appropriate loop and insert it to the transmitters for an appology for that channel.This is so much better than the shit we have now would you believe we still use CDs we have a cd player i have to load the appropriate cd .
On iphone, i crashed the software a couple of times when zooming right in then moving around, the waveform still looks very narrow in landscape yet there is plenty of wasted space.