Octal: Pocket Synth

• Real instruments: 30 new beads play recordings of real instruments. Grand and upright pianos, four electric pianos, guitars, basses, alto and tenor sax, a muted trumpet in Mute's place, horn stabs, strings, pizzicato, harp, vibraphone, glockenspiel, and four drum kits with brushes and hand percussion. • Four new palettes are built on them, and Daybreak, Timber, Velvet and Haze now play them too. A few synth beads that sounded almost the same as another are gone; loops you made with them still play them. • Hold your phone upright and Octal turns with it. Back, Record and Play sit between the bead and the buttons, and the Loop Deck and Song Deck have their own upright layouts. With Portrait Orientation Lock on, Octal stays upright; turn the lock off in Control Center to play it sideways. • On iPhone Duo, the shut phone turns upright too, with Back, Record and Play in a column under the camera. Open it held sideways and it splits down the fold: the bead and buttons on one half, the Loop Deck on the other. A deck you have out on the outer screen stays where it is when you open the phone. • The Song Deck has undo: Back takes back the song's last change, and holding Back shows the song's history, so you can go back to any step. • Exporting a loop no longer crashes Octal. The audio file, the MIDI file and the zip with every stem are written again.