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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.
I just love playing with stuff in Jasuto Pro. It’s so good for experimenting with ideas. Even when they just don’t work at all.
My latest idea for Jasuto was a total failure. Which was great as it made me think of something else which was quite interesting to toy with.
Oramics is still one of those music apps that I find myself returning to regularly. Just for the making of strange noises and thinking about the pioneering days of electronic music.
The Retronyms pulled out an amazing app when they introduced Tabletop last year. It isn’t like any other modular environment on the iPad, but so far I haven’t had much, if any, chance to do anything with the newer modules.
So my plan is to get that sorted out very soon.
The more I get into Jasuto, the more ideas I have for using it. That’s not to say that it is perfect of course, there are always areas that could be improved, but you can say that with any software.
Jasuto is perfectly useful as it is, but it would be great to see it updated sometime soon.
Buddha Machine has added a few nice features which prompted me to try it out again. It’s a strange music making app, but I do find myself warming to it though. It’s also interesting to work with the app against the actual hardware version.
Since I stopped writing Palm Sounds I’ve had a lot more time to spend on actually making music, and making the kind of music I’m interested in making rather than just testing music apps.
I was playing with MoDrum the other day and remembered just how much I enjoyed this drum machine and how versatile it is.
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while now although I’d wanted to use my iPad 2, but it seems now that it won’t be usable as an input device for some reason. Anyway, I used the GuitarJack in my iPhone 4 and it works very well. Using it with GuitarTone is good too, which I wasn’t expecting as what I wanted to achieve was a non-guitar like sound. I got close enough.
Another great music app for creating stuff on the go. I’ve been a Chordbot user for a long time and love the versatility of the app. It’s great for making sequences to work on afterwards using MIDI.
DopplerPad used to be one of the most used apps on my iPhone, but I haven’t used it for a while now. I started it up again today, and it is still a useful musical tool. I quite liked the way it’s workflow runs, and I like it, it fits for me.
I hope that one day the Retronyms will update it, but until then I think I might use it a bit more from now on.
And non-jailbroken? No, it’s for real. An app called Launch Center allows you to run a number of automations with stuff like texts and tweets and launching apps. I’m going to give it a go and see just how useful it is. One thing I do know is that it isn’t anything like as good as Android Tasker, but it is a very small step in the right direction for iOS.
I am Ashley Elsdon 