I’ve been experimenting with the Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer SDK for iOS, and this is my first project: an analog-style sequencer for the iPad. In the video I sequence an Alesis Andromeda A6 synth using the iPad and the MIDI Mobilizer interface.
I’m not sure where I’m going to take this as far as features/etc go, and for now I’m going to be shifting my focus back to finishing up a different music app, but I think the demo shows that MIDI control using iOS devices definitely has some promise.
Thank you to Alesis founder Keith Barr for the Andromeda A6 and his many other contributions to music making.
We’ve been using the Pulse News Reader iPad app to follow blogs and news lately. The latest version has the ability to create a meta-blog from your favorite “pulsed” articles that you come across. You can check out our Pulse picks with links to articles on music, iPhone/iPad, general technology news, gaming, and cool random design stuff at our Synthetic Bits Pulse site.
Note that like many other super-hyped Web 2.0++ things, this one often has reliability problems so it’s possible the site will be down when you check it out. Despite that, we’re really digging this and other alternate ways to browse the web using the iPad through apps.
In Synthetic Bits news, we’re currently working on a new fun music app, more on that soon!
We’ve been making videos of all our apps to include in the new and improved in-house ads we will run to promote our other apps when iAds doesn’t serve us any real ads. More on that once we submit the updated Explore Space! ad-supported app and try it out.
A free update that makes our FunkBox drum machine iphone app into a universal app, meaning it runs natively on both iPhone/Touch and now iPad, has been submitted to Apple and is currently waiting for review. These pictures show a preview of how FunkBox will look on your iPad.
For our eighth and ninth apps we decided to experiment with a free model that promoted our other apps and ran Admob ads. We made a free entry in our Puzzle Fun Pack series called Explore Space!, and a new one that helps you come up with really Terrible Baby Names. So far the initial results haven’t been that great, but we’ll give it some time and keep you updated as the experiment goes on.
