Enso Looper1.4.1 - App Store

Enso is a looper. Not a phrase sampler, not a beat slicer: a real looper, built in the image of the pedal loopers and reel-to-reel tape systems that defined the form, then extended well past what hardware can do. Press one button and it records; press it again and you are looping. Up to five minutes of stereo audio, host-synced or free-running.

The play and record heads are completely decoupled, each with its own through-zero speed control from -4x to +4x. Play backwards at half speed while overdubbing forwards at double, and things get strange in the best way. Four sectors give you separate loop regions to crossfade between and overdub within, and a built-in effects section (tape-style saturation and hiss, filters, and chorus) can sit in the feedback path so your loop ages like tape with every pass.
Enso runs as an AUv3 plugin in your favorite host, and includes a standalone mode for sketching.

FEATURES
- Full automatic looping engine: simple to learn, exceedingly powerful, with one-button looping control, both host-synced and free time.
- Independent play and record heads: through-zero speed from -4x to +4x on each, with selectable increment and decrement values.
- Dub In Place: work like a traditional digital looper, or like a tape looper with the effects and speed changes in the feedback path.
- Sector crossfading: define four start and end points, crossfade between them, and overdub or re-record within them.
- Effects section: tape-style saturation and hiss, high- and low-pass filters, and a stereo chorus.
- MIDI Slice mode: play your loop from a MIDI controller, automatically sliced into 4 to 16 equal pieces.
- Full MIDI CC implementation: an assignable MIDI CC page covers most of the looping engine, tuned for foot control.
- Auto RTZ: automatically return to zero at a chosen interval to keep loose material in sync.
- Cross-platform preset format: XML presets that can store the buffer, compatible with the desktop version of Enso.

No subscriptions and no nonsense. Buy it once and it is yours, with free updates. Enso is also available for Mac, Windows, and Linux at audiodamage.com.

Version History - The security group was misnamed in the last update, resulting in no access to the preset folder. This has been remedied, and your presets will be back, safe and sound. 1.4.1 Sep 1 This one is all about sound quality. We went through the looping engine end to end, hunting clicks.

- Major improvements to clicks and pops at loop splices, sector edges, and speed changes.
- Improved audio quality, particularly at slower playback speeds.
- New SEAM XFADE setting: control the crossfade time used to smooth loop splices and sector ends.
- The preset manager now supports favorites.
- Many small bug fixes and improvements. 1.4.0 Aug 11 General maintenance build, some small bug fixes for compatibility with Circa. 1.3.3 04/19/2025 Version 1.3 is now available!

> > New control: Auto RTZ (found on the settings panel), will automatically return to zero at selected time interval. Useful for syncing material that is not quite your tempo.

> > New about splash with rich info contact buttons.

> > New style preset manager.

> > "Save buffer in preset" switch removed. Now, if the buffer has audio when you save, it will be stored.

> > Many small bug fixes and optimizations. 1.3.2 07/02/2024 A fix for the Xcode 15 bug that prevented Enso from working in iOS 15 and prior. 1.2.9 11/07/2023 This fixes an issue introduced with 1.2.6 that revolves around a (now) well-documented bug in XCode 15. This bug causes applications written in C++ to not work in iOS 12, 13, or 14. If you were experiencing issues after the last update, and you are on one of those three operating systems, this update should fix that. 1.2.7 10/20/2023 In the previous version, if you loaded audio in to the buffer that was not at the host's current sample rate, Enso would only load silence. This has been fixed, and all audio is properly sample-rate converted on load and/or instance now. 1.2.6 10/01/2023 Various optimizations and small bug fixes. 1.2.5 09/11/2023 > > Major de-clicking operation was successful; you will hear _far_ fewer clicks overall, and principally when the record head and playback head are moving in opposite directions, at weird speeds, and other places one was likely to get a click previously. If it seems like we start every changelog note with this, that's because we do. We hate clicks. More than you do. Unless you're Alva Noto, in which case you probably love them and are sad we got rid of them. Sorry, Alva. 





> > Settings panel added. Buffer load and save and RAM info moved here.



> > Scribble strip added. Enter text in the scribble strip field on the settings panel and it will show in the center dial; handy if you have more than one Enso open to know which one is which. Saved with preset.

> > New preset panel with 3 folder columns. Default preset added. Enso will auto-load the preset named Default in the root of the User folder. You may save over this to set your own preferred starting state.

> > MIDI Slice mode added. You can now "play" the loop you've recorded with a MIDI controller; it is automatically sliced in to 4 to 16 equal loops.

> > Numerous bug fixes and optimizations. 1.2.4 06/14/2023 General bug fixes, optimizations, and. modernizations. 1.1.2 03/16/2023 > > Much smooth. Very declicking. Wow. We have done a lot of work to minimize edge- and corner-case clicking, principally in the Sectors. You will find that, in general, the Sector features work much better, and there will be no (or minimal, in the case of legato source material) clicks when resizing and moving sectors while playback is occuring.

> > Settings were not recalled correctly when restoring a session in some hosts. This has been fixed.

> > MIDI notes added as sources in the CC Control section. You can now assign a MIDI note to a momentary button the same way you would a controller button.

> > In all quantization modes, the playback and record speed controls now go _towards_ zero when clicking or dragging down, and _away_ from zero when clicking or dragging up. There were some differences of opinion with respect to the various speed quantizations, and this has been remedied.

> > The main mode quantization now affects every momentary button except Trigger and Overdub. What this means: sector switching, RTZ, and sector clear will now respect the quantization. So if you have it set to quarter notes, your sector will switch on the beat.

> > A whole heap of small bug fixes, improvements, and optimizations.

> > Factory presets added back to the iOS version. They somehow got kicked out of bed in the multiple updates that platform needed. 1.0.15 08/15/2020 > Minimum iOS raised to v11 for better compatibility.

> App splash screen edited to hopefully limit confusion. Now includes links to walkthrough video and manual, and explicit instructions for use.

> Many small bug fixes and improvements. 1.0.10 04/20/2020 1.0 03/13/2019