someone who's doing some things
I recorded these samples whilst watching / helping out at last year’s London to Brighton Vintage Car Rally. I made the rhythm track a while back and them it sat there for ages. Then last week a few ideas came together and this got made.
I hope you like it.
It seems strange to be ‘revisiting’ apps in an app economy that’s not even 4 years old as yet, but a lot has happened in the iOS and the mobile world in general in the last 3 and a bit years and I realised the other day that there were loads of apps I didn’t use anymore at all.
Not because they were bad, not because they didn’t serve a purpose, but just because I’d moved on. So I decided to load a whole bunch of them to my older iPhone 3G and see if I could really make it a dedicated music making machine. As I’m writing this I’ve loaded on about 100 ‘old’ apps and I plan to go through them a few at a time, or maybe just one at a time to see if they’re still useful and have a purpose on this device.
So expect to see a stream of posts about these old apps over the next however long it takes.
[processing width=”480″ height=”120″ file=”http://www.ashleyelsdon.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/A_line_with_weight.jar” method=”inline”]Load the applet[/processing]
Here we are again, another little bit of processing. This little sketch still draws a line again but adds some weight to it. Have a go, and here’s the code too.
void setup() {
size(480, 120);
smooth();
stroke(0, 120);
}
void draw() {
float weight = dist(mouseX, mouseY, pmouseX, pmouseY);
strokeWeight(weight);
line(mouseX, mouseY, pmouseX, pmouseY);
}
I had a VL-1 when they first came out, but I got rid of them. I wish I hadn’t. So I’ve finally got around to getting a new one, or rather a second hand one that is. It’s a little grubby but I think it’ll be quite easy to get cleaned up. Once that’s done, my plan is to MIDIfy it. I’ll let you know how that goes.
[processing width=”480″ height=”120″ file=”http://www.ashleyelsdon.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sort_of_draw_a_line.jar” method=”inline”]Load the applet[/processing]
Another bit of processing, this time drawing a little line on the screen. If you’re interested, here’s the code for the sketch:
void setup() {
size(480, 120);
strokeWeight(4);
smooth();
stroke(0, 120);
}
void draw() {
line(mouseX, mouseY, pmouseX, pmouseY);
}
I am Ashley Elsdon 