Creating in 2011: A Composers’ View of Mobile Game Audio, From Trends to Slot...
Pay attention to those Angry Birds. They could be a sign of upcoming gigs, composers and sound designers. Photo (CC-BY) Johan Larsson. Composer/sound designer Ben Long has a resume of work on dozens...
View ArticleSunVox, Production Tool That Runs Almost Everywhere, Gets Updates; Watch Videos
God Bless Russian engineering. As of this summer, it’s the only ticket to and from our space station, via a capsule that Just Works. It gaves us the very first electronic instrument (thanks, Professor...
View ArticlePocket Producers: Griff Demo, Walkthrough on Windows Mobile
Keeping to the theme of Tony’s video with his Windows Mobile device, here (via a reminder on comments from its creator) is Pocket Griff. There’s no gimmick here: this is all about taking your software...
View ArticleIntermorphic Mixtikl Arrives: Mobile and Desktop Generative, Creative Music...
Oh, yeah. It’s deep. To keep a cool head, perhaps put on "Music for Airports" on loop while you read through the tutorials. Musicians and composers have long dreamt of computers and mobiles playing...
View ArticleMixtikl 2 Brings Generative Music to Desktops, Mobiles – and Generates Music...
A traditional music score can fill reams of paper. But make music generative, and a tiny amount of musical DNA can breed musical events. How little DNA is needed? How about 140 character worth –...
View ArticleSunVox, Modular Music+Tracker, Now Free on Most Platforms, iPad Coming
SunVox, the quirky and cool modular music creation software, already runs on a ton of platforms. Starting now, most of those platforms can run the tool for free. (The one exception: iPhone/iPad.) That...
View ArticleTokyo Blip: A Chip Music Interlude for Blip Festival
How do you prefer to compose? Pen and manuscript paper? Recording ideas from a piano? Firing up your favorite music software? How about … coding in 65c816 Assembly language? The trio behind this video...
View ArticleRetro Mobile Music: What Vintage Palm and Windows Mobile Did, How to Use Them...
Newer, faster, thinner … better? One technology follows another in dizzying cycles. But how is it that something that was once an amazing engineering marvel ceases to be so? If it really works as a...
View ArticleFL Studio keeps rocking – now with mobile integration
FL Studio, the program once known as Fruity Loops, is one of those indestructible gems of music software. It’s the thing people may sheepishly admit to using – only to proceed to gush about their love...
View ArticleCross-Platform Modular Tracker App, Sunvox, gets yet another big update with...
If you don’t know Sunvox, then let me start by saying that it is one of the most cross platform apps I know of. It runs on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Windows Mobile (not the current version of...
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