Archive for July, 2010


A couple of demos using iSequence on iPad

Filed Under: composition, phonography, sci-tech by jhuckle — 1 Comment
July 16, 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.

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Recording problems using iSequence for the iPad?

Filed Under: composition, digital sounds, phonography, sci-tech by jhuckle — 1 Comment
July 14, 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 Record

iSequence for iPad Record

UPDATE – 5/8/10

A new update to this app is now available with a fix to the recording function, so I’m pleased to say the developers were listening!

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Classic Aircraft Sound Recordings for iPad

Filed Under: phonography by admin — 1 Comment
July 13, 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

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!

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WordPress iPad App

Filed Under: sci-tech, wordpress by jhuckle — Leave a comment
July 3, 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.

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New iPad today!

Filed Under: sci-tech by jhuckle — Leave a comment
July 2, 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).

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