Welcome to the first release of Bosca Ceoil in years!

Bosca Ceoil: The Blue Album is a port and rework of the classic music making app by Terry Cavanagh. It has a playful nature and is very easy to use, especially if you are not musically inclined!

You can see for yourself right now, because Bosca Ceoil Blue is free to download and use, no strings attached. You will be welcomed by an interactive guide that will get you settled, and then just start jamming :)

Bosca Ceoil Blue features a pattern-based step sequencer compositor. Build patterns out of notes, and build your song out of the patterns. Choose from over 300 hundred instruments, arrange your tune across up to 6 polyphonic channels, pick a scale and a key if you want! And, when you’re ready, export it to WAV or MIDI — to share with the world, or to use it in your other projects. It’s great for gamejams!

Changes from Bosca Ceoil 2

The main goal of this project so far was to replicate all the things that make the original app so great and beloved. But, certain things definitely needed an improvement and touch-ups. So if you’re familiar with the previous release of Bosca Ceoil, here’s a non-exhaustive list of new goodies:

• Native macOS support is back! While some extra testing is still required, we’re enjoying cross-platform capabilities of the Godot game engine this time around. So many platforms are supported out of the box, including macOS.

• Confirmation dialogs when you may lose your progress. Bosca Ceoil is kind of infamous for having no guards when it comes to potential data loss from exiting the app or starting a new composition. This is all in the past now, and you will be prompted with a confirmation popup whenever data loss can happen.

• A new time track in the Arrangement editor will help you tune your songs to the exact length that you want. This is a small, but handy change when you have a specific target, or just want to know ahead of exporting what to expect time-wise.

• Speaking of exporting, all exporters and importers have been rewritten from scratch! While every external format is lossy and cannot exactly replicate the structure of a Bosca Ceoil song, an improved output can be expected for MIDI, MML, and XM.

• The advanced instrument tuning feature is now more obvious and features an additional visualization layer to inform you about the progression of recorded values. There is still room for it to grow, but this is already a start on the path to make it more user-friendly.

• Oh, and you can delete patterns now too, just like you could delete instruments before. Keeping your creative chaos orderly since 2024!

There are many more smaller touches across the board, but in general you should expect the app to feel very familiar and just as playful. Well, enough of that. Give it a try for yourself!

And if you experience issues, please report them as soon as you can.

Your Support

Please consider supporting the project financially by donating via Patreon! Every dollar helps, so please consider donating even if it’s a little. Thank you very much <3