Category: Music

When Brian Eno’s Bloom app came out it caused a stir. I guess that people didn’t expect there to be something like that for a mobile platform from someone as significant as Eno. Personally I thought it sent a very clear signal as to how important mobile was, and that was great news.

Even though these apps (Bloom, Air, Trope) haven’t had many updates I still like them. I still find them interesting to listen to and play with, and I’m glad that Eno did them. I hope he’ll do something more in the mobile space, something really innovative, but if he does I expect it will be quite unexpected.

Aurora is one of the best, if not the best, grid based sequencer on the iPhone. It is just so versatile. So I expected that it would just crawl along on my iPhone 3G. But I was wrong. It works really well on the 3G.

So there’s another app that will be staying on my 3G for some time to come.

Another app that I haven’t used in ages but is still a very good app on the 3G. I remember when iSyn first came out and was a real revelation. It’s still just a 2 synths and drums app, but what it does it does well and the synth controls and sequencers are easy to get around.

If I had one complaint it would be about the project save functionality although I doubt very much that it will be updated or sorted out at any point.