[microsound] creating music on the iphone

[carlos santos]

there's a small free app for the iPhone called modAxis, its a 3 osc fmish synth, controlled with 3 fingers, which one modulates the other,
nice sounds coming out of it, but there's a delay that messes thing up, used a couple of times live, but limited for solo or longer performances...

http://itunes.apple.com/in/app/modaxis-free/id400154656?mt=8

CS


On 2011/02/18, at 22:50, Justin Glenn Smith wrote:

> The Nokia N900 is a powerful little device, and with the free "easydebian" app you can run csound. I have been using my n900 as a scratch pad for composing with csound, and also writing small csound instruments that will run in realtime using the n900 as a synth with touchscreen controller (using the csound fltk opcodes for the gui). If you turn off wifi and any sort of desktop widgets, the battery life is excellent, even when running real time audio for extended periods of time (patches with granulation and reverb etc.).
> 
> For anyone who is a programmer and Linux savvy, I would say it is well worth the money (there is no provider that will provide an n900 free with a plan - it is mostly open source software running on an unlocked device and cell phone companies don't like that). I haven't even bothered trying to use the thing as a phone, so I can't really say whether it is any good for that purpose.
> 
> The one trick for getting csound running on the n900 was needing to run "alsamixer -c 0" in an easydebian terminal and manually turning up the mixer channels (csound wants to use a different mixer element than the one most of the apps use I guess?).
> 
> I tried puredata but the CPU performance and UI were unusably bad. I couldn't get jack compiled in order to try supercollider, but figuring that sc typically uses more cpu than puredata I didn't think it was really worth the bother.
> 
> Jeffrey Melton wrote:
>> I enjoy using synthPond and Aura Flux on my iPhone for generative music,
>> though I haven't kept up with newer apps. I have been meaning to checkout
>> Curtis granular synth. TouchOSC and Konkreet performer are good controllers
>> for OSC-compatible desktop apps.
>> http://the-palm-sound.blogspot.com/ and
>> http://www.creativeapplications.net/are both good blogs for creative
>> mobile apps (the first not just for iOS,
>> the second not just for mobile music). Synthtopia.com and
>> CreateDigitalMusic.com cover mobile apps occasionally but not exclusively.
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Kurt Nimmo <kanimmo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello all. I am new to the list this afternoon. Am wondering if there has
>>> been any discussion about the emerging art of music creation using the
>>> iphone and related devices. I have yet to search through the archive -- I do
>>> not see an easy way to do so, although I may have missed it.
>>> 
>>> I have purchased several apps but they are more geared for techno and
>>> beat-centric electronic music (with the exception of Eno's apps). Am curious
>>> if anybody has been following developments on this and if there might be a
>>> list I can subscribe to. I am particularly interested in generative music
>>> and or sound.
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> Kurt
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