Free cool ambient iPhone music app – Fuji Leaves
Fuji Leaves is an interactive music application where you use leaves and falling stones to create music. When a stone hits a leaf, the leaf produces a sound. Different sounds play depending on how the stone hits the leaf. You can move, rotate and scale leaves in a near infinite amount of combinations, each combination resulting in a unique sound everytime.
The goal with the game is for you to relax and play it in the way you enjoy the most. Try it out!
Features
- Create songs using leaves and falling stones
- Add and remove leaves and stone creators as you please
- Move, rotate and pinch leaves and stone creators in a near infinite amount of combinations
- Undo & redo your actions
- Save & load the songs you make
- Share them with your friends through facebook connect
- Easily download your friends’ songs
Urban Grooves with SampleTank for iPhone / iPod touch and iRig MIDI
SampleTank® for iPhone / iPod touch is your key to R&B and urban groove construction and performance anytime and everywhere. With over 400 instruments and 900 patterns, you can create the perfect beat, the perfect groove, the perfect lead for modern R&B, classic Hip Hop, old school funk … any style you can think of. The power of SampleTank is now in your iPhone / iPod touch. Check it out today!
http://www.ikmultimedia.com/irigmidi/moreinfo/sampletank.php
EM-Tronic Digital Synth kit
This kit provides you with all the components you need to make a small handheld digital synth. All you need to do is build the kit and find an enclosure to fit it into.
About the EM-Tronic:
With the combination of pitch, speed and mode controls, giving endless combination of sounds this Synthesizer packs quite a punch for it’s size. The best thing is I’ve included the basic software file so you can hack the sound to your hearts content.
The information in this Instructable is all you need to build this synth but if you would just like a kit to put together I have made a few up. EM-Tronic KIT
You will need:
*Circuit board ( get one made or just use strip board)
*The ability to program a Picaxe 08m2 Microcontroller.
*Electronic components( resistors, capacitors, voltage regulator, 9v battery clip, switch, potentiometers, 3.5mm socket, knobs,Picaxe 08m and LEDs
*Soldering iron and solder
*Wire cutters
*Allen key to fit the knobs
*An enclosure to fit the kit into if you want one.
Apart from these instructions I’ve included the circuit board schematic(eagle), circuit board layout(eagle) and the software file EM-tronic.BAS. This gives you all the details you need to build your own EM-Tronic. If the files don’t download or I’ve left something out please let me know and I will sort it out.
Get your weapons ready! – Medieval times are here in music making
Boom Library has released Medieval Weapons, a collection of construction kits and designed sound effects.
It’s done. Get ready to unleash an epic battle and blow away your audience. With our “MEDIEVAL WEAPONS” sound effects library, you get a fascinating collection of bone-crushing hammer impacts, deadly sword hits, wall-tearing catapult shots, bows and arrows, armor impacts and much more to design an incomparable medieval soundscape.
This collection comes as a CONSTRUCTION KIT with 4500+ high quality source sounds (96 kHz/24-bit) and as a DESIGNED edition with 500+ predesigned, “ready to use” sounds (96 kHz/24-bit). Berserkers and Warlords get the BUNDLE.
Medieval Weapons is available to purchase for 149 EUR (Construction Kit) / 99 EUR (Designed). A bundle of both packs is 199 EUR.
Get a 15% Early Bird Discount with the code: BOOM-MEDIEVAL
Medieval Weapons by BOOM Library
Mixr Tutorials: Using Waveforms and Create
http://youtu.be/DHkioGtWuvI
iPad DJ App Mixr training tutorial on using waves. http:// www.mixrdj.com
http://youtu.be/UsouxhnBs0U
iPad DJ App Mixr training tutorial on using the Crate Manager.
http://youtu.be/EU2kfUKdr3Q
New Standard in Mobile DJ
Isle of Tune iPad app sneak peak
Some footage of the upcoming Isle of Tune app for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch!
features new to iOS version:
– super crisp retina graphics
– add up to 8 cars
– change car speeds (2x, 4x, 8x)
– ‘traffic lights’ for pausing cars
– view all islands created with the online version
– create and share your island for people to view
Android version coming soon after!
visit www.isleofune.com to play online now!
Background information:
A little bit about me: I’ve worked as an animator, flash developer and art director over the last 10 years in London, UK – mainly for digital ad agencies (some previous work here: www.happylander.co.uk). Around about June last year I pretty much quit advertising work (before my soul was lost completely in the desolate mire of micro-sites and adver-games!) and took some time out to make stuff for myself – mainly based around music and playful interaction.
Isle of Tune came from a desire to make a different kind of music sequencer along the lines of http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix or the Reactable – but with less of an abstract feel and a little more game-like and social. Since it went live in December there has been over 60,000 islands made
with some properly creative tunes in there eg. http://isleoftune.com/?id=63320 or http://isleoftune.com/?id=48359Over the last few months I’ve been making updates from user requests – mainly to the way you can browse, search and view rated islands, it seems a lot of visitors come by just to check out the islands other people have made!
I’m currently working with a talented chap – Stuart Middleton – a developer since the days of the Spectrum (and now runs a small app dev company at www.abstractalien.com) who is converting the Isle of Tune codefor various mobile platforms and also helping me take it beyond what I could online with the limitations of flash. My far-fetched dream with the app is to be able to fund further development and allow me to make more stuff like this in the future without having to go back to the world of advertising!
Welcome to the Cloudroom House
Welcome to the Cloudroom House – a music experience for everyone to join and share.
The Cloudroom House is not just an album, it’s a song cycle that consequently breaks away from conventional ways to release and receive music. This song cycle aims for wholeness and therefore challenges you to complete it with your contribution. You can contribute by simply paying attention and lending me your ear. By giving it a listen you are also giving it a meaning. I am no one and my music is all in vain unless you bring this to life by your notice.
The Cloudroom House furthermore explores the relationship between performer and recipient – the relationship between you and me. There are a lot of questions we need to find the answers for. At first, how do we define our relationship? What determines our relationship? Is it reliance? Is it a symbiotic reciprocity and mutuality or is it interdependency that binds us? In addition, we need to decipher whether our binding is abiding or only temporary and if we can stand on our own or not.
So you see that I’m rather amorphous and faceless and that’s why I would like you to shape me. Only you can shape me. I want to take you on a journey as my constant companion. We could build up something here together. It’s completely in your sole discretion what you make of the Cloudroom House. You decide what it’s all about. You can call me the house’s structual engineer whereas you are its interior decorator and as long as you listen, you are a part of it.
Music From A Dry Cleaner
Diego Stocco’s experimental music creation are always a treat, check this one out:
Almost everyday, on my way to a local bakery, I walk in front of a dry cleaners.
When they have the front door open, I hear a lot of interesting sounds coming from their work equipment. Eventually, the different mechanical and steam sounds sparked something in my mind, so one day I asked the owners if I could record a piece of music by using their machines as musical instruments.
I used a puff iron, press and dry cleaning machines, a washer, clothes hangers, and a bucket full of soap.
The bass and lead sounds were created from the buzzing tones coming from the conduits and engines.
There are no additional sounds from any traditional or electronic instruments. Enjoy!
More info and pictures are available at the Behance gallery: behance.net/gallery/Music-from-a-Dry-Cleaner/2161629
Generative music performance app now released on Android
Orbits is an application for generative music performance, based around a gravity-based particle simulation. As a sandbox-type toy, there is no goal or ultimate aim.
Instructions:
Place a finger (or multiple fingers) on the screen to create particles. While you hold a finger down, the particle increases in size. Drag while holding down to set a starting direction for the particle (as if pulling back on a slingshot).Release to make the particle take off in the opposite direction. When two particles collide, they play two notes based on the particles’ sizes. The notes are locked to a scale/chord (which changes automatically), and thus are always in tune. Create particles of different sizes to get something interesting. Particles attract each other with a gravity-like force. Try to put particles in orbit around each other to create some interesting movements! Larger particles exert a more powerful force.
Press the Android menu button to open the option menu, where you can turn off the background chord or set the app into “autoplay” mode. When in autoplay, the particles will generate themselves, and you can sit back and watch what happens (you can still interact).
You can find it at the Android Market here.
Music Tower
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