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.
Category: Creative Process
The ‘creative process’ category is about anything that relates to or influences the creative process.
More Mixtikl
More messing around with Mixtikl again, and tweeting the odd mix too. Interesting to get back into this app and start to do a few things that are a little more complex. It’s the kind of music app that satisfies on all levels. You can generate something immediate using the random function, or spend as much time as you like to create something completely unique.
Pixilang 3.2 arrives
I haven’t used Pixilang for a long time and so it’s great to see a new version and one with some really interesting new features like:
- universal containers (pixi-container) for any type of data;
- dynamically typed variables (for integer or floating point numbers);
- functions for sound synthesis and recording;
- functions for block data processing;
- supported formats: WAV, PNG, JPG;
- MIDI In/Out.
Of course, or most interest is the functions for sound synthesis and recording and the MIDI in/out as well. Sadly it seems that there’s no Palm OS version though, so I’ll be using it on Windows Mobile.
This morning’s Music App (part 1)
Aurora Sound Studio has been around for a while. First on Windows Mobile and now on iOS. It’s a great music making app, and one that I’ve too long overlooked. So I went back to it this morning, albeit briefly, and was surprised to find some nice stuff in there that I must have made ages ago.
It’s always nice to get a little surprise like that and remember (or not remember) tracks partially made and sitting around just waiting for you to rediscover them.
Processing and text
I’m getting back into making processing stuff (as you can see from the sketch below), so next I’m hoping to do something a little more ambitious, using text for something more interactive.
Anyway, it’ll take me a little while to get my head around text in processing,
Making stuff with Grid Music
I was playing with Grid Music this morning and what a great app it is. I’ll put up a little track I made soon.
And that’s on Android too
I meant to say that that processing sketch also works really well on my Android phone under 2.2. Nice to be able to run this stuff on Android too.
More Processing
[processing width=”640″ height=”480″ file=”http://www.ashleyelsdon.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Mouse_Makes_some_shapes_1.jar” method=”inline”]Load the applet[/processing]
This is a simple sketch I was fiddling with last night. I know it doesn’t do much, but it does show a tiny bit of what you can do with processing in just a few lines of code. Of course, what I’d really like to do with processing is more audio related and I’m hoping to explore more of this soon. Thought I’d share though.
More Mixtikl fun
I’m really getting into Mixtikl now, and the new visualiser in the latest version is good too, although I haven’t got the hang of the words as yet.
Fun with Mixtikl
One of the applications I’ve always wanted to spend more time with is Mixtikl. It is such a deep and complex application for iOS or Mac, or any other platform for that matter. I spent almost two hours with Mixtikl today, and enjoyed it so much. Even so I know that I’m still just scratching the surface of what this application is capable of.
I love the generative possibilities and the ability to set rules within each cell. It really does stretch the limits of what you can do with mobile music.
The other thing I love is the ability to be able to tweet a mix and share it instantly.
I’m looking forward to even more time with Mixtikl and going deeper and deeper with what it can do.
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