We know Android devices could use more music-making love. Polaris already proved itself an elegant Android-only solution. Developer Baptiste writes to let us know he’s added multiple patterns per track for chaining and variations, and other tweaks. The design work is beautifully simple — worth a look for design lovers and Android aficionados alike.
This matters, too, because Android support means access to devices like the Fairphone, with its ideas around ethical sourcing and user repairability, and other devices. (And Fairphone 6 seems like a device you might actually buy.) Plus, it’s great to see some fresh ideas.
V1.2 now supports multiple patterns per track, which, with chaining, increases the pattern length to 128 steps. The radical simplicity of Polaris was always the point, but this does it without getting stuck in a short pattern forever. And this becomes a useful way to do variations, fills, and the like.
This version also includes other bug fixes and usability improvements.
But check out how nicely Baptiste has handled the pattern switching interface — it’s subtle, but there’s some work that stands apart here:
So, since we saw this before — anyone pick this up? What are you using on your Android device?
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