This one is well worth investigation as VJ, AV guru and all round nice chap Leon Trimble (aka Chromatouch) is making some rather tasty electronic music.
Look, listen, Enjoy!
http://chromatouch.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/making-music-again/
Having now spent a bit of time playing with my iPad and running a number of iPad apps I thought I would list my top 3 music makers.
What can I say. Phat sound, easy to use sequencer, Kaoss pad controller, Midi control, the list of great features goes on and on. This is the perfect app for writing bass lines on the go, bounce them to SoundCloud and work with them in your fave DAW. Love it!
Further info and videos can be found here: CreateDigitalMusic.com
Having owned the ER-1 Electribe for the best part of 10 years this application is a marvel. I would even go as far to say that this is actually slightly better than the real machine being as it improves in a number of key ways. In the iPad version all of the virtual knobs can be automated, which opens the possibility for more expressive loops, whereas the real drum machine only allows the recording automation from one knob. The number of effects has increased, however the number of parts decreased. If you haven’t guessed already I would say that this is the best on the go beat making app. A fun, creative tool that allows you to quickly and easily put loops together on the fly in a DJ type interface. You can add your own loops or download additional content. I am particularly impressed with the built in FX and that the software is always recording your session which you can then bounce either to Studio HD or better than that SoundCloud and work further in your DAW of choice. Smashing!
There are many reasons why you might want to create a media centre:
Well at least these are the three main uses I have for mine! Selecting what to use to create your media centre may not be so obvious so I thought it worth while sharing some of my experiences I went through setting up my media centre.
When putting together my media centre I decided it was important to have something that could sit behind my LCD TV, not make much noise and comfortably handle full screen video.
The Acer Revo is a brilliant little unit, which given its Intel Atom 270 processor and NVidia Ion graphics chip is capable of playing HD Video at around a fifth the power consumption of a regular Core2Duo based machine would require (around 30 Watts compared to 150!) When combined with built in Wifi, 160Gb HDD and most importantly HDMI output the small white unit happily sits behind the screen and works wonders.
Just a bit of a tester really to find out how easy / difficult it is to blog from my iPad. In doing this test I have found a few things….
In the first instance I tried the free WordPress app, however I found it a little bit buggy – uploading photos was a slow and awkward and in my opinion needs some work. I’m sure it’ll get there, however at the moment it is sadly lacking.
Second off, I decided that the best thing to use would be the regular web interface…obviously this is only available when online, but with 3G being pervasive in most urban areas I thought that this could be a winner, however this does not support uploading media – I assume this is due to the strange file system of the iPad.
Last but not least I decided to try out BlogPress given as it was a relatively inexpensive app £1.79 and that the reviews in the AppStore were positive. I must admit that so far this is the most intuitive blogging experience with the ability to upload media and do basically what I need it too.
- Posted from my iPad
