homecrate 1.10 is available now on iOS, and 1.11 is sitting in App Review as I write this. The video above walks through 1.10 the way I actually use the app blank project, amp on track two, monitoring on, build a beat, loop over it. I’ll have a video up for 1.11 once it clears review. Here’s what’s in both.
1.10: the looper
The looper is the one I’ve been wanting for myself. It’s synced to the track: set a length in bars, hit record, and it waits for the loop point to come around before it starts the button reads “record in” until the bar count finishes, so your loop is in time with the project instead of in time with your reflexes. Overdub passes stack on top, and the tail of the last pass carries over so the layers connect cleanly.
When something’s worth keeping, hit copy and paste the loop into a track. It lands as a rendered clip a regular clip you can trim, fade, and edit like anything else you recorded. I keep an eight-bar drum pattern looping on the timeline, sketch guitar ideas over it, and pull the good ones down into the track.
1.10: stereo NAM and the master channel
The amp has a stereo mode now. Turn it on and your profile runs in a second channel; unlink the sides and you can load a different capture per side the Twin on the left, something else off TONE3000 on the right. Volume stays linked between the two so the sides don’t drift apart while you’re dialing in, but you can split that too if you want one side pushed harder.
Where I actually use it is the master channel. Drop the amp on the master, stereo mode on, two different profiles, and you’ve got something close to a mastering channel the whole mix running through two amps at once. One IR still covers both sides for now; separating that is on the list.
Protip: stereo NAM on the master is about the heaviest thing you can ask the engine to do. If playback starts sputtering on an older device, nudge the buffer duration up a millisecond in settings and it clears right up.
1.11: stem separation, on your device
This is the headline of 1.11. Pick any song in your library and split it into stems vocals, drums, bass, guitar, and more. It runs entirely on the phone. There’s a GPU engine that’s dramatically faster on recent iPhones and a CPU engine that works everywhere, and you can pick between a 4-stem model (cleanest vocals) and a 6-stem model that gives guitar its own stem.
Most apps that do this upload your audio to a server and meter you so many separations per month, more if you subscribe. homecrate doesn’t do that and never will. No cloud, no account, no credits. Your audio doesn’t leave the device.
The reason I built it is the same workflow I keep coming back to in the videos: learning songs. Separate a track, and the stems land on the timeline already lined up. Mute the guitar stem, put your amp on a track, turn on monitoring, and play the part yourself with the rest of the band still there. Hit record when you’ve got it.
1.11: audio to MIDI
Hold-press a clip, open the editor, and there’s a To MIDI button. On-device pitch detection reads the melody out of the audio and hands you a MIDI clip sing a line into the mic, get the notes, point them at the synth. It works best on vocals and isolated single-note parts, so it chains naturally with stem separation: pull the vocal out of a song, convert it, and now the melody is sitting in a MIDI clip you can edit.
1.11: three new plugins
All three are built-in AUv3s, same as the amp and synth:
- Vocal chain pitch correction, compression, doubling, a de-esser, and reverb in one plugin. Everything I kept reaching for on vocal tracks, in the order you’d want it.
- Dynamic EQ a dynamic EQ and compressor with real sidechaining.
- Send the other half of the sidechain. Put it on the track you want to trigger from, point it at a dynamic EQ instance, and that signal drives the ducking. Kick into send, dynamic EQ on the bass, and the low end gets out of the kick’s way by itself.
1.11: the editing pass
A lot of 1.11 is the timeline catching up to how much the rest of the app can do:
- Time-stretch stretch audio clips without changing pitch, including fit-to-bars presets at the project tempo.
- Slice at the playhead cut a clip in two, audio or MIDI, and undo it if you change your mind.
- Crossfades clips that touch can now fade into each other.
- Pinch to zoom the timeline finally zooms the way your fingers expect.
- Automation shapes instead of drawing every curve by hand, long-press a parameter and pick a shape: linear, exponential, s-curve, swell. There are range sliders for the values and offset controls for where it starts and ends.
- MIDI parameter automation MIDI clips can now automate AUv3 parameters on the instrument they’re playing, not just note data.
- Project sharing export a whole project as a single file and import one someone sends you. Tracks, clips, and plugin settings come along.
Small things worth knowing
Third-party AUv3s that were designed horizontal can now fill the plugin view sideways there’s a rotate toggle in the plugin header. And the synth’s filter parameters now track the knob values correctly; if the cutoff ever felt like it wasn’t doing what the knob said, that was why. Fixed.
1.10 is live now. 1.11 lands as soon as Apple waves it through, and the video for it will follow. If you try the looper or split your first song into stems, let me know how it goes the support link is right in the app. Go play.