I am Ashley Elsdon

someone who's doing some things

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.

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.

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.

Music apps I haven’t used in ages: Future Sound

Posted by on in Creative Process, Listening, Mobile Applications

This was an app I got right back at the start of iOS music making. In fact, before it was iOS actually. It was one of the more innovative apps that came out, and more like art than a music making experience. It’s interesting to go back to it now as in many ways some of these ideas have been taken on by the likes of RJDJ in the work they’ve done with their Inception app and also with scenes in general.

I looked up their website and they’re still going, although it seems as though the iOS or mobile world isn’t the entirety of what they’re about, which is good. Interesting to see what they do next, although they don’t seem to have a blog or news feed sadly.

Messing about with Jasuto Pro

Posted by on in Creative Process, Making things

Messing around with stuff is great fun, and if there’s an iOS app that is superb fun, then it’s Jasuto Pro Modular. I haven’t played with this app for ages, and so it’s great to get back into it and discover stuff that I’d started but not done anything with.

The patch, or sketch, or whatever the proper name is, that you can see above uses a sample file that was recorded using RJDJ on a journey home one day. The idea was to record a week of travel sounds using RJDJ and then create patches for it in apps like Jasuto Pro.

I must work out how to get the audio out on this track, but perhaps on another day.