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A year or two ago some developer [0] figured out how to code some sort of pseudo pressure sensitivity into a music making app, which seemed to work well from wh

A year or two ago some developer [0] figured out how to code some sort of pseudo pressure sensitivity into a music making app, which seemed to work well from what I heard. Apple eventually banned the app from their store citing improper use of the code base. [0] trying to search for it, seems lost to the memory hole

nosuchthing 11y ago
The app was called "Orphion", and it had several methods for detecting gestures/articulations: a gentle finger tip touch, a tap, and a push down. Apple cited forbidden private API use. http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/06/hands-off-apple-wants-to-pull-orphion-music-app-over-touch-apis/ http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/06/hands-off-apple-wants-... Apple just called me to nicely tell me I use a private API function to sense the area of the screen which is covered by the finger for its articulation gesture ([CDM] wrote about it). This is crazy – thousands of users love it for this and it makes Orphion so expressive. The app will be removed from the App Store in two weeks if I don’t submit a new version without it – and I currently can’t think of Orphion without this gesture. So what I can recommend is 1. Everyone who wants to have the “original” Orphion get it NOW from the app store (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app /orphion/id495465097), it will be only be there for a few more days 2. Backup the current version to keep it. (Michael Tyson from Audiobus made this great tutorial) 3. Tell Apple to make this great function officially usable in apps (Any ideas how to do that?) So far… let’s see if this is really the end of Orphion. ...looks like the petition worked and Orphion was allowed to keep the gesture functionality; https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/orphion/id495465097 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/orphion/id495465097

nosuchthing 11y ago

The app was called "Orphion", and it had several methods for detecting gestures/articulations: a gentle finger tip touch, a tap, and a push down. Apple cited forbidden private API use. http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/06/hands-off-apple-wants-to-pull-orphion-music-app-over-touch-apis/ http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/06/hands-off-apple-wants-... Apple just called me to nicely tell me I use a private API function to sense the area of the screen which is covered by the finger for its articulation gesture ([CDM] wrote about it). This is crazy – thousands of users love it for this and it makes Orphion so expressive. The app will be removed from the App Store in two weeks if I don’t submit a new version without it – and I currently can’t think of Orphion without this gesture. So what I can recommend is 1. Everyone who wants to have the “original” Orphion get it NOW from the app store (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app /orphion/id495465097), it will be only be there for a few more days 2. Backup the current version to keep it. (Michael Tyson from Audiobus made this great tutorial) 3. Tell Apple to make this great function officially usable in apps (Any ideas how to do that?) So far… let’s see if this is really the end of Orphion. ...looks like the petition worked and Orphion was allowed to keep the gesture functionality; https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/orphion/id495465097 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/orphion/id495465097