The kit, the toys and the clip.

Every time a second copy of something appears in this project, one place gets named the truth. Layerz, for iPhone audio. In the three weeks after the launches it happened three more times.

The kit.

On September 23 a folder called ultrakit appeared in the Windows build, with a twin on the Mac the same day. It is a set of controls the apps draw themselves: square, borderless, with a cursor that leans into whatever it can press. That evening he saw it.

ok pull. the windows agent has done some beautiful work on the ui. including how the cursor should look and behave. as well as a more juicy vibe.

Elijah · Sep 23

Two weeks on, it was the rule.

we're using UltraKit as our design system for everything … UltraKit is now our native source of truth

Elijah · Oct 5

The apps built on it are the ULTRA line, and on Windows they are free: Layerz ULTRA, Wake ULTRA, Tide ULTRA. No installer, no account. The cursor got out, too. Curse makes the WaveLoop gem your Mac's pointer, and it is the pointer on this site.

The toys.

Plugins had the same problem audio engines did: a chopper in REAPER, a chopper in openDAW, a chopper on the web, each its own code. On October 2:

our approach here will be creating these widgets, embedding them on the site, and using them as our plugin source of truth

Elijah · Oct 2

So an instrument is now built first as something you can play on this site. How it chops lives in one place. The openDAW versions of Choppa and X4 are already generated from that code; change the widget and they follow.

The clip.

The smallest Choppa is the widget: record twelve seconds, it lands on sixteen pads already chopped, play. Today, October 13, Choppa 1.13 shipped with that same little instrument as an App Clip. On an iPhone it opens from a link, with nothing to install.

Projects, loosely.

The oldest rule here is that there are no projects to save. This month it bent, a little. His description, from this morning:

our apps also do have projects now.. but they are not as formalized as daw projects, they are more like 'heres your massive collection of things, and they can be linked together any old way'

Elijah · Oct 13

Where it stands.

2,510 commits since February. Four audio apps, a sketchbook, a card image for a Pi and a shelf of free desktop apps.

The first thing he wrote in this story was that he is a heavy producer and weak in selling. The producing is on the record. This blog is a start on the other half. New chapters land here as things ship.