I am Ashley Elsdon

someone who's doing some things

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.

Milkytracker is on Android now!

Posted by on in Making things, Mobile Applications, Tech

Who knew? Not me that’s for sure anyway! And, what’s more, it appears to be compatible with my old Orange San Francisco. Excellent. I shall download that and then maybe not really use it for a while then dramatically rediscover it in a few months.

Sounds like a plan doesn’t it?

Fun with Mixtikl

Posted by on in Creative Process, Mobile Applications

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.

Inception (the app this time)

Posted by on in Listening, Mobile Applications, Sounds, Tech

I’ve been using this off and on over the last few days and I think I’m actually enjoying it more than I did when it first came out. I’d deleted it off my iPhone so I’d lost all the ‘dreams’ that I’d unlocked, but that doesn’t really matter.

I really love the whole augmented audio concept, and couple with the fact that I really love Inception the movie, the app is a natural fit.

Haven’t got on so well with their Dimensions app so far though. Perhaps I should give it another try.

A little keyboard

Posted by on in TV

I bought this little keyboard for my San Francisco Android phone. It works great with my iPhone 4, it pairs straight away and works like a dream. However, the San Francisco won’t see it at all and I can’t seem to find any software for it only. Maybe I’ll get it working tomorrow.

Sunvox arrives for Android, but not for me

Posted by on in Mobile Applications, Tech

It is of course great news to hear that the excellent Sunvox app has arrived for Android. Sunvox was always described as a cross platform modular tracker and it is truly cross platform now.

Sadly it won’t run on my under-powered old Android phone which is only running 2.2, as Sunvox requires 2.3, and even if I could get 2.3 on my device I doubt it would work very well as the CPU is quite slow. Still, I’m glad to see it and I’d happily pay for it as and when I upgrade.

Well done Alex!

Thinking about Spotify

Posted by on in Listening, Mobile Applications, Tech

I’m considering getting a Spotify subscription. I was somewhat taken with the spotify apps (SPAPPS) that I saw at Music Hack Day London last month and it got me wondering about giving Spotify another try out. So I’m almost there in terms of making up my mind about it. The only nagging doubt is that the last time I tried Spotify I actually couldn’t find too much music that I liked on it, which is a major drawback for a music service.

Perhaps it’s changed now, as it was a while back since I used it.

Automating field recording

Posted by on in Creative Process

As part of my ongoing experimenting with Android and Tasker I decided to see if I could get tasker to make a recording every morning at a specific time and then send me a text to confirm it was done.

Well of course tasker is more than up to this and this morning it worked relatively well although I’m having a few problems with getting the file to play now, but I’m sure that’s just teething troubles. Once I’ve got that sorted I’ll start to post the recordings.

AxisPad on the 3G

Posted by on in Mobile Applications

Well I took the plunge and bought StyleTap for my 3G. I think it works pretty well so far, although I think I’d rather have StyleTap for Android at the moment, but never mind.

Getting AxisPad running on it was great. AxisPad was one of the last Palm OS music apps to appear, and I still really like it. I think I have all the miniMusic apps running on the 3G now, which is good. I still couldn’t get Bhajis on there, but perhaps I’ll have more luck next time I try.