FoxBox 2.1.0

FoxBox 2.1: play it your way

A melody that loops while your hands shape it, three ways to play, and your hands as MIDI for any synth or Ableton Live.

• LOOP (Melody mode): S switches PLUCK · FLOW · LOOP. Pick a melody (or 🎲) and it loops on the beat. Right hand up for brighter, left hand for a higher octave, hands apart for space, a fist drops it.
• The loop strip: your melody's notes under the stage. Hover to drag, stretch, add or delete them; whatever you do stays in key.
• Frames, simpler: hold a frame and the last 4 beats loop. Wider for more, let go to stop, and each new frame is the next effect.
• How you play: CURL (curl a finger to pluck), PALM (tap the air with an open palm, like a drum pad) or ONE HAND (everything with either hand). No style is better; switch any time in Settings → Playing.
• Easier plucks: a smaller fold plays a note. Too easy? Settings → Playing → Pluck sensitivity.
• MIDI & Ableton: turn on the "FoxBox" MIDI port and your hands play any DAW or synth: plucks send notes, your hands send CCs. As far as your DAW knows, you bought a controller. FoxBox for Ableton Live installs from Settings → MIDI & Ableton (Live Suite, or Standard with Max for Live), with four macros to map. Each take also saves a .mid.
• Ableton Link: tempo in sync with Live and other Link apps. It's off by default: turn it on in FoxBox (Settings → MIDI & Ableton) and in Live.
• Strings of light: SAUCE's and REMIX's strings, redrawn.
• Setup and languages: new installs start with five quick questions, and FoxBox now speaks Español, and in beta Português (Brasil), Français, Deutsch and 日本語. It follows your Mac; change it in Settings → Playing → Language.

Install: download the DMG (macOS 14+, Apple silicon, a camera). Already on 2.0? FoxBox updates itself in the app, and WHAT'S NEW shows the new moves.

Privacy: Ableton Link, when you turn it on, talks to other Link apps on your local network; macOS may ask once about Local Network access. Nothing else changes: the camera, your hands and your music stay on your Mac.

The stem splitter's weights are Meta's (Demucs), licensed for scientific use only; FoxBox says so before the download.

Windows beta (SAUCE only, unsigned): FoxBox-Setup-2.1.0-x64.exe, for Windows 10 and 11 (x64). REMIX and the library are coming to Windows. The installer isn't signed yet, so Windows asks once: in Edge choose … → Keep → Keep anyway, then on "Windows protected your PC" click More info → Run anyway. Built from snapshot 5370227.