July 16th, 2010
Despite a few niggles I am really enjoying iSequence on the iPad.
Here are a couple of demos so far. Things are a little harsh with iSequence and there’s no eq to use so too much playing with the effect filtering can produce harsh results.
First one is the raw output from iSequence (LAME Mp3, VBR7)
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Second has a touch of compression and some eq to try to deal with the harsh mids (or could be my new monitor headphones not yet broken in).
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Not the best but still getting to grips with the workings. I used a couple of field recordings from a train journey recorded directly onto the iPad while creating the track.
July 14th, 2010
I’ve been using iSequence on the iPad to do a bit of tracking and sequencing and it’s a fantastic application – the iPad I’m sure will revolustionse alot of audio produciton work – and had some problems using the built in sound recorder.
If you too are getting distorted recordings I’ve found a workaround.
- Power off the iPad (hold down the power button and swipe off)
- Restart the iPad
- Start iSequence and record sound – result is distorted
- Shut down iSequence
- Start iSequence and record sound – sound is good to go! (within the limits of the hardware)
The iPad isn’t very configurable for recording yet and I don’t see any devices on the horizon to support plug in microphones however for rough and ready instamatic sound snapshots in the right environments, it has interesting possibilities.
iSequence for iPad Record
July 13th, 2010
I’ve created an iPad and iPhone friendly site for listening to the most requested sound recordings at field-recording.org.uk.
Aircraft Sounds on Mobile website
The site is available from Aircraft Recordings on Mobile
“Optimised” for iPhone OS but should work on everything else too.
Let me know what you think!
July 3rd, 2010
I had wondered why there was an app for using WordPress – as far as I could see, the only bit I would miss by using a web browser would be Flash based stats presentation and the Flash file uploader (which I could never get to work).
The killer seems to be the content/post form is not recognised by the iPad browser as editable!
So this is via the WordPress app – still a bit buggy on presentation (has some real issues with the keyboard drawer and redrawing the post area) – the spellchecker is nice though.
Tomorrows challenge will be using the iPad at work – luckily I have the kind of job where I can try to make that happen.
July 2nd, 2010
Ok, so today I finally bought an iPad, something I’ve been thinking about for some time.
So why then? My head said Android but like most people appreciate, that’s not where Apple position there stuff. It’s probably not going to replace a laptop and I doubt I can do any sound editing or composition on it (now), but from the people I know who already have them, there is always something new, so who knows. Audacity on iPad would be nice!
As you would expect there are a few jiggles; cursor keys (ie none), using the keyboard (getting better now).
June 29th, 2010
I’ve uploaded a new recording of the Kennet Aviation Supermarine Seafire on my field-recording website.
More information available from my field-recording Supermarine Seafire page.
April 25th, 2010
A process recording of a creaking fence. A good few days last week there were no aircraft flying which meant a good opportunity to record in the backyard.
This recording last about eighteen minutes. My intended target, the fence, lost out to repeated calls of an ice cream van. Exploring the sound a bit with some filters brought out a very eerie, ethereal feel to the plaintive calls of the speaker.
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April 22nd, 2010
Not my usual line of things but a friend of mine who develops online games asked me to develop a few sound files for some game screens for something he was working on.
It was a screen based brick game, short playing time, repetitive and above all very, very additive.
Some rules I set: must be about a minute long, must compress into 1mb mp3 without losing definition, must be loopable
So here are the first 5, 1 minute long, tracks I came up with. The game has 12 screens, so I’m going to be a bit busy (as well as trying to remain original) to do the rest.
Track 1: This is used as the first screen track, also for the menu
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Track 2:
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Track 3: Some ‘dramatic’ orchestral samples
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March 8th, 2010
A French amateur radio operator was able to record and convert the signal of the Mar Express probe’s X-Band transmitter into an audio file. More information plus a sample of the recorded sound is available from here.
The equipment from an abandoned telecom uplink site used to listen in on the ESA’s Mars Express space probe wasn’t enough to allow download of the actual data.
“Listen here to the whistle of Mars Express as it hurtles towards Phobos and consider that this signal was generated on Mars Express by a transmitter only slightly more powerful than a light bulb.” – http://webservices.esa.int/blog/post/7/1058
March 4th, 2010
Some intersting potential for a new midi controller could be possible after some reseach and development carried out by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology into creating mobile technology which reads the users lips. A development of this could be to create a midi expression interface?
Current applications highlighted are communication in silent environments or where the phone user may disrupt other users and the transmission of confidnetial or sensitive information – not to mention “having a quiet word” in public.
A post from Cellular News covering the story.
A link to Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
