Tag: Apps
Everything is about apps at the moment. A lot of what I mention under the apps tag is around iOS and mobile music, but there’s other stuff too, and not just iOS, but Android, Palm OS and Windows mobile.
Getting acquainted with PixiTracker
More time spent with PixiTracker, what a great idea. I remember it the original running on Palm OS and Windows Mobile. With that you had to run it as a file in PixiLang, but that’s another story altogether.
Loopseque Mini
Really enjoyed playing around with this app yesterday. It has a great feel to it and I think that with some practice I might even get reasonable at making tracks with this app.
Some Loopseque Mini Sounds
Another little track, this time made in Loopseque Mini.
Let the experimentation with Griff begin
I had an idea the other day about how to use Griff studio in combination with other gear. I’ve no idea if it will work or be useful, but it’s worth trying out for fun if nothing else.
Returning to Xenon
Another app that I’ve long overlooked and I now plan to use some more. Xenon is a great groove box and can generate some really nice synthy sounds. In many ways it reminds me of Microbe on the Palm OS, but it is a different app in many ways.
I got back to this and get a little track up and running in just a few minutes yesterday and I’m looking forward to doing some more with it soon.
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.
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).
Why is there a baby hedgehog in this PDA?
And more to the point, what does it do? Good question. Well it was a demo app from what was to be a replacement OS for the Palm PDA. Sadly it never came to anything, but I still have the demo apps/applets that were around and every now and then I get one of them going to try and remember what it is that they actually do.
Baby hedgehog is a lot like that. Every time I come to use it I can’t really remember what it is that is does.
I still wish that there had been a replacement OS for Palm which was just for music, but that’s never going to happen now sadly. But if you want to know more about Capers, look here.
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