I am Ashley Elsdon

someone who's doing some things

Author: ashleyelsdon

Storyteller - Poet - Explorer

Table of elements

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What an awesome idea. I really hope that we see all of these elements come to the molecule synth.

Things about “Drafts” (iOS App)

Posted by on in Mobile Applications, Tech

I’ve had this app for a week or so now and although it has some amazing functionality I’m still not entirely sure what I want to do with it or how it’ll ever be useful. It’s sort of in the ‘solution in search of a problem’ camp.

The app itself has a huge amount of functionality to it. It’s able to share text and mark up to a very wide number of services and can be configured very easily to do this. So much so that I actually made a little search function for drafts that allows you to send a piece of text into Palm Sounds (blog) and search the entire site with that text. It’s pretty simple. The search URL is:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:palmsounds.net+%5B%5Bdraft%5D%5D

Yep, that’s all there is to it. You put that into drafts and you can send any text to search Palm Sounds.

So that’s all well and good, but, what’s it for? What can I use it for? The short answer is I haven’t really thought of a reason as yet. Which is a bit of a shame as I think this is a clever app.

When I think of one, I’ll let you know.

Drafts - Agile Tortoise

MIDI, Arduino and the Molecule Synth

Posted by on in Making things, Mobile Applications, Music, Tech
Arduino control
Arduino control
MIDI
MIDI

I’ve been thinking about this now and trying to decide how I’d use the MIDI on the molecule synth. It doesn’t really work in the way I’d expected, but nevertheless it’s still quite an interesting feature to play with.

My plan will be to use either Lemur or TouchOSC to control the module over MIDI, but the first choice is what kind of synth to load into the MIDI module?

Mozzi would be an obvious choice, but to start with I think I’ll go with the stuff that’s in the manual.