•  Minor corrections.

•  Audio Unit: added audio rendering time statistics.
•  Audio Unit: detects audio dropouts and shows a warning in this case.

This update fixes some UI issues on iPhone.

Note: This version raises the minimum requirement to iOS 12 and 64-bit CPU. For older devices there are still older versions of this app with lower requirements available for download on the App Store.

This update fixes the following software issue introduced by recent feature update:

•  Fixed a potential crash when switching to a different sound.

This update provides numerous improvements for the Audio Unit (AU) plugin version of Oriental Strings:

•  AU: Full-screen sound selection with search criteria filter options.
•  AU: Added Reverb effect.
•  AU: Automatically save and restore all sound settings with Audio Unit session (e.g. when saving/loading a song in an Audio Unit host app)
•  AU: Fixed potential crash on AU session restore.

Additionally this update provides the following software correction on Oriental Strings stand-alone app side:

•  Fixed potential concurrency issue when processing MIDI Control Change (CC) commands.

•  Adds support for iOS 15.
•  Adds support for new iPhone 13 models.
•  Adds support for new iPad 9 and iPad mini 6 models.

This update provides the following software corrections:

•  Fixes last row on sound selection screen from being hardly accessible due to a scroll space issue which was triggered with certain sound search filter rules.
•  Voice Over: Various corrections and improvements to provide more meaningful speech output.
•  Fixes stuck keys on the virtual piano keyboard which happened when holding virtual keys with one hand and trying to select another sound preset with another hand.
•  MIDI: An external "All Notes Off" MIDI message now also releases potentially stuck keys on the virtual piano keyboard on screen.

This update provides the following software correction:

•  Fixes a crash which could sometimes happen when switching between sounds (affected both, stand-alone app and Audio Unit plugin).

This update provides the following software improvements:

•  Improved instrument load time.
•  Audio Unit: Allows now a high amount of AU instances.
•  Audio Unit: Use the new RAM bar on the AU user interface as indicator for how many AU instances you can still deploy.
•  Audio Unit: Fixes several issues in conjunction with various AU host apps (e.g. with AUM, GarageBand).

This update provides the following corrections and improvements:

•  Fixes noise at beginning of new notes that happened under rare situations.
•  Fixes crash on certain MIDI messages (stand-alone app and Audio Unit).
•  Audiobus: Fixes connection problem with Audiobus on iOS 14 and higher (see NOTE below).¹
•  Audiobus: If session is restored from Audiobus, don’t ask the same question dialog again whether IAA MIDI or IAA MIDI + CoreMIDI shall be used.
•  Audio Unit UI: Fixes sound selection list from being cropped if AU UI height inside AU host app was rather small.
•  MIDI recorder: Fixes crash on 2nd iOS “Open with …” request for user imported MIDI files.
•  MIDI recorder: Supports now MIDI files with “.midi” file extension (instead of being limited to only “.mid”).
•  Sound selection: Fixes readability issue of placeholder text regarding search filter options if iOS was not running in dark mode.
•  Volume knob: Shows now that MIDI CC#7 is associated with this control.

¹ NOTE: This version asks you for permission to access the local network, which is required for Audiobus to work on iOS 14 and higher. If you are not using Audiobus you can safely ignore or decline this permission request. You can also grant and revoke this permission under iOS Settings -> “Privacy” -> “Local Network” at any time.

This regression¹ update fixes one issue with the Audio Unit plugin:

•  Audio Unit: Workaround to prevent an immediate crash when loading the Audio Unit plugin in some DAW apps (bug on iOS level introduced by iOS 13.4.1).

¹ Regression update: the previous update few days ago caused issues on older iOS versions (iOS 12 and older), which we corrected with this regression.

This update fixes one issue with the Audio Unit plugin:

•  Audio Unit: Workaround to prevent an immediate crash when loading the Audio Unit plugin in some DAW apps (bug on iOS level introduced by iOS 13.4.1).

This update fixes the following issues:

•  Fixed several issues with the graphical user interface (iOS 13).
•  Fixed issues with dark mode (iOS 13).
•  Audio Unit: Fixed several crashes when exporting / freezing a song.
•  Audio Unit: Fixed AU not being loaded with some DAW apps.
•  Inter-App Audio: Fixed crash when Inter-App Audio was disconnected.
•  Fixed several issues with Audiobus.
•  App States: Fixed MIDI device selection not being saved / restored.
•  App States: Fixed MIDI velocity curve setting not being saved / restored.
•  Virtual piano keyboard: Fixed black keys triggering notes with incorrect / inaccurate velocities.
•  Fixed seldom crash on (stand-alone) app start.
•  Fixed crash when opening tuning settings on app start.

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This update fixes several issues with the new iPad Air 3 and iPad mini 5 models.

This update provides the following software correction:

•  AudioUnit: Fixed an issue where wrong instruments were being restored on offline mixdowns.

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This update provides the following software corrections:

•  App States: Fixed issues with "Replace" function.
•  AudioUnit: Fixed issues with audio export.

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This update fixes issues with the Audio Unit plugin on iOS 12.

This update contains numerous software corrections, as well as some minor new features:

• Added "Panic" button.
• MIDI Recorder: Added setting whether to ignore MIDI program change on playback (by default recorder ignores program change).
• Fixed effect send knob not being updated on MIDI CC #91.
• Audio Unit: Loads instruments in background again on regular (real-time) DAW usage.
• App States: Fixed remote restoring App States via MIDI program change.
• App States: Fixed wrong MIDI program number being displayed to user (off by one).
• Fixed memory leaks.
• Audio Unit: Fixed wrong preset being restored under certain conditions.
• App States: Fixed transpose setting not being restored.
• MIDI Recorder: Songs are sorted alphabetically now.

Thanks for your feedback!

This major update of Oriental Strings introduces several new features, most notably:

• Introduces "App States".
• Introduces full screen sound selection with interactive search filter options.
• Improved tuning dialog with master tune and factory presets (including common Arabian and Turkish scales).
• Adds extended features to the virtual on-screen piano keyboard.
• Adds optional MIDI device configuration screen.
• Latency down to 1ms now available.

As well as a number of software corrections, most notably:

• Audio Unit: Addresses audio export ("offline rendering") issue (introduced by iOS 11).¹
• Inter-App Audio / Audiobus: Fixes crash which could happen (with iOS 11) when the app was launched from either Audiobus or as IAA from a third-party DAW app.
• Fixes touch latency of 1s on virtual on-screen piano keyboard (introduced by iOS 11).
• Fixes issue with manual polyphony and latency settings.
• Numerous other minor UI corrections.

Please note that we had to raise the minimum requirement to at least iOS 9.3 due to new software features we use. However the App Store still offers you an older version of Oriental Strings for devices running an older version of iOS.

¹ Requires at least iOS 11.3 and also an update of your DAW app to be resolved. For more details about this issue: https://doc.crudebyte.com/iOS/Technical-Notes/Audio_Unit_Issue_219DE61/

•  Fixes an issue of the Audio Unit Plug-in version which caused misbehaviors like random audio artifacts, noise and AU crashes under certain conditions.
•  Fixes minor graphical issue.

•  Adds Audio Unit v3 plugin feature which allows this app to be used as virtual instrument by third-party multi-track DAW apps.

•  Adds Bluetooth LE MIDI configuration to settings screen.
•  Fixes detuning issue which could happen under certain scenarios.
•  Fixes periodic audio noise issue which could happen under certain scenarios.
•  Fixes velocity support of on-screen keyboard on recent iOS versions.
•  Adds ability to change time signature on built-in MIDI recorder.
•  Fixes some minor UI issues on some devices.

•  Added Audiobus support.
•  Native 64 bit support added.

- This app is now a universal binary, supporting now also iPhone and iPod touch!
- Sounds are now based on true stereo sample data, which adds more depth to them.
- Corrected issues with various individual sounds.
- Optimized hardware resource consumption, which makes the app also more convenient on older devices.
- Fixed screen orientation issue.
- Minor other software and user interface fixes.