Mostly made using Strange Agency apps, this track started with messing around in Donut. The drum track uses MoDrum.
Tag: mobile music
It’s a big passion for me. Making music on the move is something I’ve been doing for a long time and I hope to do it far into the future.
CP1919
Another favourite Strange Agency app that I’m rediscovering since getting my iPad 3. Excellent for making noises.
App revisit: Flourish
Flourish is quite old now, but was a great idea and is still an interesting idea for a sequencer app irrespective of what platform it’s on.
It works as a circular pattern. An idea that’s been used a number of times before, but always in a slightly different implementations. Flourish is very nice implementation in my view. It is simple enough for a relatively non-musical user to enjoy, but allows enough complexity to be build up to create interesting compositions.
Not 1 but 4 new Palm OS apps to investigate
How’s that for a spot of luck. I was continuing to add sites to my Pearltrees collection on mobile music and stumbled over this site which has a bunch of .prc files available for free download.
I’ll be taking a look at all of them and posting some thoughts over the next few days. If you’re interested in taking a look the site is here.
Sunvox is awesome on the iPad 3
Returning to my iPad 3 and finding lots of apps that I really enjoyed again. Sunvox being a good example although I can’t wait to see the live recording and other stuff Alex has in store for version 1.7.
miniMusic’s birthday?
I have this in my diary as the birthday of miniMusic, the Palm and iOS mobile music company. I think that they’re 13 years old today. Having just checked their site there’s no update there. In fact, the site hasn’t been updated since the 9th of March 2011. It’s a shame. I hope it doesn’t just fade away.
Anyway, assuming that miniMusic sticks around, as I most sincerely hope they do, here’s a very happy birthday to miniMusic.
Notation on the Palm
miniMusic’s NotePad app for the Palm OS. One of the first mobile music making apps I ever used. Still amazing, with their KriKit audio engine inside.
Ambientness
When Brian Eno’s Bloom app came out it caused a stir. I guess that people didn’t expect there to be something like that for a mobile platform from someone as significant as Eno. Personally I thought it sent a very clear signal as to how important mobile was, and that was great news.
Even though these apps (Bloom, Air, Trope) haven’t had many updates I still like them. I still find them interesting to listen to and play with, and I’m glad that Eno did them. I hope he’ll do something more in the mobile space, something really innovative, but if he does I expect it will be quite unexpected.
Lost Microbes …
I posted this picture on instagram yesterday. I was having a great time playing with Microbe on my old Treo 650. Then suddenly, all the files disappeared. Which was a bit of a shame as I hadn’t played any of them for ages, and one or two I thought were actually worth saving.
I’ve no idea if anything can be done to recover them, I guess I’ll have to have a nose around the old forum to see if there’s anything there that helps. If not, well, that’s a shame.
App revisit: Aurora Sound Studio
Aurora is one of the best, if not the best, grid based sequencer on the iPhone. It is just so versatile. So I expected that it would just crawl along on my iPhone 3G. But I was wrong. It works really well on the 3G.
So there’s another app that will be staying on my 3G for some time to come.
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