I bought the best of Fad Gadget this week. I knew some tracks but not most. It was a great listen. I’ve really enjoyed it. There’s some great songs, and excellent lyrics. Well worth a listen in my book.
Month: January 2012
Patterns with MoDrum
Since I stopped writing Palm Sounds I’ve had a lot more time to spend on actually making music, and making the kind of music I’m interested in making rather than just testing music apps.
I was playing with MoDrum the other day and remembered just how much I enjoyed this drum machine and how versatile it is.
Showing the cracks
As you can see the cracks in my iPad are pretty nasty. So far the screen protector is holding it all together.
GuitarJack and some experimentation
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while now although I’d wanted to use my iPad 2, but it seems now that it won’t be usable as an input device for some reason. Anyway, I used the GuitarJack in my iPhone 4 and it works very well. Using it with GuitarTone is good too, which I wasn’t expecting as what I wanted to achieve was a non-guitar like sound. I got close enough.
8th Doctor: The Creed of the Kromon
As it’s the weekend I decided that it would a good time to listen to the next installment of the 8th Doctor’s stories, “The Creed of the Kromon”, in the hope that it’s better than the last story. We shall see.
After episode 1 it is better. A more dynamic and coherent story anyway.
Composing with Chordbot
Another great music app for creating stuff on the go. I’ve been a Chordbot user for a long time and love the versatility of the app. It’s great for making sequences to work on afterwards using MIDI.
Back to DopplerPad
DopplerPad used to be one of the most used apps on my iPhone, but I haven’t used it for a while now. I started it up again today, and it is still a useful musical tool. I quite liked the way it’s workflow runs, and I like it, it fits for me.
I hope that one day the Retronyms will update it, but until then I think I might use it a bit more from now on.
iPad 2 is usable again
It isn’t pretty, but at least it can be used again. I put a screen protector sheet over the smashed screen so that I can now move my finger over it without cutting it to shreds. It is functional, but not very nice to look at.
Roll on iPad 3 I say!
Axim plans
I’ve been thinking about what else to put on my old Dell Axim. Emulation seems obvious, well to me it does anyway. I still have a Mac System 7 emulation app somewhere around the place, so I may try that.
The other thing I’d like to do is to populate it with a bunch of my own ‘mini’ apps made with Basic4ppc. That might take a bit longer though.
Automation on iOS?
And non-jailbroken? No, it’s for real. An app called Launch Center allows you to run a number of automations with stuff like texts and tweets and launching apps. I’m going to give it a go and see just how useful it is. One thing I do know is that it isn’t anything like as good as Android Tasker, but it is a very small step in the right direction for iOS.
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