FoxBox 1.5.5

FoxBox 1.5.5: STRINGS

▶ Watch the one-minute STRINGS explainer

• STRINGS: remix the drop with your hands. Hold a hand shape and its beat FX plays, locked to the grid: ✊ TEAROUT, ✌️ RIDDIM CHOPS, 🤏 WOBBLE, 🖐 GROWL, 🤘 HALFTIME, 👇 SUB DROP and ☝️ BUILD ROLL (let go: the DROP). Raise a hand for more depth; one effect per hand, two at once.
• Play the strings: stretch them for tension (slack builds dark, taut opens the song up), tilt them to slide the 808, and shake them for vibrato.
• Finger filters: fold a finger to cut its band: thumb SUB, index LOW, middle MID, ring HIGH-MID, pinky HIGH.
• GLASS: frame your hands for a pane onto another world (THERMAL, X-RAY, HALFTONE, PRISM, KALEIDO, DATAMOSH), each with its own sound. Let go and it shatters.
• One press of ▶ plays any track, starting two bars before the drop. Load a track right on STRINGS, or try the TEST BEAT.
• Scrub the track: tap a section (INTRO · BUILD · DROP · BREAK …), drag the waveform, or press ←/→ to jump by section. Every jump lands on the bar, in time.
• Cleaner stems: less vocal bleed, and the 808 stays with the bass. The stem splitter's weights are Meta's, for scientific use only, and the download says so.
• Tracking no longer freezes when the room goes dark (club lights down), so face hiding keeps following you.
• FACE HIDING on STRINGS hides your face in one click; RECORD and SEND TO OUTPUT ask first while it shows.
• WHAT'S NEW plays a live STRINGS guide, and the GUIDE link on STRINGS replays it.
• TouchDesigner is paused for now; its looks are greyed out while STRINGS takes the stage.

Install: download the DMG (macOS 14+, Apple silicon). Already on 1.5? FoxBox updates itself in the app (about 30 MB this time).

If the camera stays dark after updating, open System Settings → Privacy & Security → Camera and turn FoxBox on, or run tccutil reset Camera com.smittytech.foxbox.