I got it, I was always going to. I’m interested to hear what kind of collection it is and the one track I don’t have, so I’ll probably be giving it a listen today / tomorrow.
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Songineer
One of Amidio’s brightly coloured interfaces. I decided to try this out again as it fell into the ‘haven’t used since it came out’ category. One thing that came back very quickly was that the random drum pattern generator was quite fun to play with, and as an ‘instant composer’ app (as it is described), it does do what is says it will very well.
I think I’ll spend a bit more time with this one over the next few weeks.
Passing MIDI files between iOS apps
I was making a little tune in Chordbot today and remembered that it has a very nice feature allowing an export to MIDI and email function. Once you’ve emailed yourself the file you can open it in a variety of apps, I decided to use Music Studio, which works really well. From there you can add anything else.
I’ll have to see how it works with other apps next.
Raspberry Pi announcement due tomorrow
So the Raspberry Pi foundation have a big announcement coming up tomorrow morning, and sadly I think I might well get up a bit early to find out what it is. I’m pretty sure I’ll be ordering a raspberry pi when they’re available.
iPad 3 announcement next week?
So Apple have posted details of their much rumoured 7th of March event. It looks like an iPad 3 event to me, and not before time. In fact the only thing I really want answered is how long before I can actually get one? I most certainly don’t want to wait for months like with iPad 1, and what I’d really like to hear is something like ‘… and they’re available or order now with immediate shipping’, now that would be wonderful.
Aside from that I’m actually not too fussed about what’s in the next model. I’m sure it’ll be faster, with more memory, maybe a better camera and a retina display. I can’t think of anything else that’s been rumoured. I’d love to hear that they’ve brought something really amazing in the 3rd generation iPad. Something really unexpected, but I’ll settle for getting one quick as my iPad 2 is really unusable now, which is a real shame and I’m really missing it.
A sketch a day, day 1
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I decided that I’d go through the ‘Getting Started with Processing’ book and do all the example sketches (well most of them anyway) and post each of the sketches as I go through day by day.
So, day 1. Today’s sketch is pretty simple really. Just move your mouse around to make little circles and when you click your mouse they’re black.
Video of me making a Lumiphone
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This is not really very good at all
As I was getting hold of PDAs at the weekend I remembered that I had this Stylophone Beatbox. So I put some batteries in it and got it working again.
I shouldn’t have bothered. It really wasn’t worth it at all. The sounds are awful and it’s really hard to get it to do anything very musical.
I think it’s something I need to bend
Next project
This is another kit I’ve had for ages and haven’t gotten around to, so it’s next on my list of things to make.
It’s a solar theremin kit, we’ll see how this one goes at the weekend.
Jasuto Pro and Thingamagoop
The other day I was messing around with my Thingamagoop and 2 monotrons, and of course recorded the output. I then tried working with it as sample data in Jasuto Pro, which I think worked quite well.
What I might do is put together all of the different treatments of this recording in a single soundcloud set at some point this week(-ish).
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