I postedthis on Instagram, but I liked it so much I thought I’d post it here too.
Month: March 2012
App revisit: Junglinge Synth
Another older app that I haven’t used in a very long time. This app has a very interesting user interface and makes some great noises. It is really a noise maker rather than a synth, but certainly something I’ll keep to play around with again.
To MIDIfy a VL-1
So, having got my VL-1 and located my VL-1 MIDI kit, I suddenly realise that I don’t have any instructions to go with it!
I’ve asked highly-liquid for some help as they made the kit.
Getting going with uLoops, or PocketBand …
This is another of those ‘I’ve been meaning to do this for ages …’ type projects. Although not really a project. uLoops, or PocketBand as it seems to be called now is one of a very few Android apps that will a) run on my machine, and b) seems to work.
For a long time I’ve meant to move beyond the basic free version of the app and get the full version, and as it was on sale over the weekend I decided that now was a great time to do just that.
So I hope to get playing with it soon and even make something worthwhile. Who knows, I might even try and get it running on the Android install on my 3G!
App revisit: Star6
It was only through going over my old apps in iTunes that I actually remembered this one. Really quite innovative when it came out, and a lot of fun to play with now. I got it running again on my 3G and it works fine, so much so that I found myself playing around with it for a lot longer than I’d expected to. So it will stay!
Doctor Who: The Lost Stories: The Foe from the Future
This is an excellent story from the 4th Doctor with Tom Baker and Louise Jameson. I’m 2 CDs in and 1 to go, which I’m really looking forward to.
Music 4.5 Conference
I thought I’d post this link to a handy article about the Music 4.5 conference on mobile music which I spoke at last week, and also their blog is always a good read for music and tech.
The Vintage Engine
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.
App Revisits
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 day 4: A line with some weight to it
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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);
}
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