UPDATE: Our priority one bug, is that in some circumstances, it is wrongly labelling files as ableton 8 not 6/7 – we’re working on it

Wow. Thank you! We’ve had loads of RT’s on twitter and some really encouraging feedback so far.

Thought I’d write a quick post to respond to some of the questions we’ve had:

1) I’m on the alpha list but I can’t login with the email address

If you’re on the alpha list you will need to register your full details to use warpsauce – make sure you use the email address you signed up with.

2) Can I register as an alpha tester please?

No, sorry. Anyone who registers now, who is not already on the alpha list will not be able to use the site until we move into public beta.

3) Why a closed alpha?

We wanted to get the site to a certain level of stability / usability / content before we unleashed it on the general public – we’re also now finishing off the admin side of it, so we can cope with more users once it’s live.

4) (along the lines of…) what no mp3’s?

NO – this is purely for the .asd files – which are user created content and as such, not covered by copyright (for more details, please see our T+C+P on the main site)

5) “the .asd file doesn’t maintain the warping; in some circumstances it is overwritten. For this to *really* work, you should ask for the .alc (clip) file, which records the warping information (and lots of other goodies) reliably.”

Now this is an interesting one and I’d love more feedback on this – we’ve focussed the site on .asd files for whole tunes for a couple of reasons, my understanding – and I will be double checking in case I’m wrong, which does happen – is that the clip file contains audio as well (and so is copyrighted), and also would be unique to the loop size you chose?

Rather than be a site hosting lots of (illegal) clips, we choose to focus on full tracks.

If I’ve got this wrong, please do tell me!

6) There’s not that many files on here yet?

We’ve provided a tool for YOU to swap warp files, we will be importing all of my personal warp files (400+) really soon, but for now we’re focussed on bugs + admin panel.

All feedback gratefully received, I really do hope that together we can create a great re-sauce

Luke

So we had the launch party, it was fun… we’ll upload the pics a bit later once we get the real work out the way. I just wanted to give you a quick update on why the site isn’t actually live yet.

During our pre-flight checks, we identified a “rain stops play” incident. I took a parachute overview and thought outside the box to use as many cliches as I could to basically say… we found an issue, its taking us a while to fix it, we’re sorry.

The upside of this has been that we’ve now developed much more comprehensive feedback/faq/help system based on the issue we found and an aha moment that came while solving it!

In parallel to us fixing this issue, our good friends at The Boy In the Corner have been warping popular files for us to include from launch (inc. the beatport top 10 each week), so we’ll also have a bigger inventory than we would otherwise of had.

issue + delay = -1 point

better FAQ = +1 point

more warp files = +1 point

Score = 1 point = WIN

Luke
PS We’ll also be having prizes for the top warp file creator when we go from alpha > beta… ladies + gentlemen start your warping!

UPDATE: Sites back online now, sorry for any inconvenience – sign on up!

Morning,

We were talking about moving hosts this week, and it’s happened. We’ve arranged for our new hosting to come on-line today, but our existing hosting has been taken off-line a few days early.

The site should be available in the next day or two, once again, apologies for the downtime, hopefully this will be the end of it.

Tom

Hi I’m Tom – lead developer of WarpSauce.

I just want to take some time out of my Sunday afternoon to talk about the recent downtime we’ve had. First and foremost I want to apologize, this was as much a surprise to yourself as to us, we noticed the downtime first about 4pm, and contacted our hosting provider.

Since then, they haven’t got back in touch with us – but the server’s since come back on-line. After this week’s event’s (several subsequent periods of downtime) we’re looking at other hosting providers, as we feel we can’t provide you the best service if we’re off-line all the time..

We’re hoping to find a provider and switch the server’s over this week – and we’ll keep you informed as and when we do this.

In the future, during any downtime periods, please check our twitter feed or on our blog!

Tom

Alpha time – kinda like hammer time, but with smaller trousers.

We’re nearly ready to launch a closed alpha to the select people who have signed up already.

Anyone signing up after the alpha release goes live will not be eligible for the free credits, we’ll just email them once its fully live – so if you haven’t already, stick in your email address now.

I promise your email address will only be used to contact you with details of our alpha and beta releases… once the site’s live, I’ll ask you before sending you any further emails.

We’re also planning a launch party for the beta release, possibly on the 10th July… in Bournemouth, UK – pencil it in your diary, as soon as its confirmed I’ll let you know more details.

Ciao for now!