I do like Reactable mobile, but once again it falls into the ‘haven’t had much time to it’ category. So I decided to play with it again and I’m well on my way to getting some interesting (ok, interesting to me) patches done.
Tag: iOS
Apple’s mobile OS. I find that I use iOS (on the iPad and iPhone) for a lot of things these days, mainly because it’s just so useful.
App revisit: Synthprobe
Another app that I didn’t really use before, but now it’s sitting on my 3G I’ve found that it’s really good. I know it hasn’t been updated for a while, but it makes some great sounds.
RJDJ: Shake
When loading up my old 3G with music apps I realised that I had more RJDJ apps than I remembered, so I’ve been using them again and remembering just how good all of these scenes are.
App revisit: Junglinge Synth
Another older app that I haven’t used in a very long time. This app has a very interesting user interface and makes some great noises. It is really a noise maker rather than a synth, but certainly something I’ll keep to play around with again.
App revisit: Star6
It was only through going over my old apps in iTunes that I actually remembered this one. Really quite innovative when it came out, and a lot of fun to play with now. I got it running again on my 3G and it works fine, so much so that I found myself playing around with it for a lot longer than I’d expected to. So it will stay!
The Vintage Engine
I recorded these samples whilst watching / helping out at last year’s London to Brighton Vintage Car Rally. I made the rhythm track a while back and them it sat there for ages. Then last week a few ideas came together and this got made.
I hope you like it.
App Revisits
It seems strange to be ‘revisiting’ apps in an app economy that’s not even 4 years old as yet, but a lot has happened in the iOS and the mobile world in general in the last 3 and a bit years and I realised the other day that there were loads of apps I didn’t use anymore at all.
Not because they were bad, not because they didn’t serve a purpose, but just because I’d moved on. So I decided to load a whole bunch of them to my older iPhone 3G and see if I could really make it a dedicated music making machine. As I’m writing this I’ve loaded on about 100 ‘old’ apps and I plan to go through them a few at a time, or maybe just one at a time to see if they’re still useful and have a purpose on this device.
So expect to see a stream of posts about these old apps over the next however long it takes.
Thicket
A new version of Thicket is out. I really liked the original version, it was excellent, and really engaging for people who hadn’t used an iPad before. I’ve only briefly played with the new version so I’m not sure as yet if it’s as good. It does have a bunch of in-app purchase options, and I might try one just to see what they’re like.
CP 1919
As I mentioned The Strange Agency’s new app ‘MegaCurtis’ the other day I thought I’d give CP 1919 a run again as I haven’t used it for a while. What an amazing app for very experimental sounds. I think I love all of the Strange Agency’s work, but I’m not sure I could pick a favourite out from their apps.
Using MegaCurtis
I’ve been playing with this new app from The Strange Agency and already I love it, especially the session recording. It’s excellent.
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