Elysium got a quick mention in Synthtopia recently. They quote from the Elysium site but, sadly, don’t link to it. Synthtopia’s a great site though. If you’re into computer music it’s definitely one to follow.
Continue Reading…Posted by Matt on Dec 11, 2008
It’s been a long time coming (at least, that’s how it feels to me) but my latest creation Elysium has finally arrived in open beta. It’s rough and ready but it’s out there and I look forward to hearing what other people do with it.
From a developers perspective Elysium has been my most challenging application yet. It’s forced me to learn how to implement a reasonably sophisticated Cocoa view, as well as mastering the document architecture, deal with NSThreads, and I’ve spent more time with bindings than I care to remember. Mostly it’s been quite fun and I think I will approach the next application with a good deal more confidence (when I decide what that is).
In the meantime I have a lot of plans for improving Elysium and I hope building some kind of community around it. In particular I have in mind some features for making it easy to share parts/whole compositions with others. More about that soon…
Continue Reading…Posted by Matt on Dec 04, 2008