Use the SS25 with your iPad

Thanks to Lawrence Horton (@oObbcbOo) for this tip.

"In case you didn't know, iOS 30pin connector extension put on synthstation25 allows for use with iPad, just did it!"

I found a new way to use my Thingamagoop

I may not be the only one who's worked this out, but here's a neat way to use your Thingamagoop as a nifty little headphone stand!

Tips from iOS Musician

Another handy tip from iOS Musician. This time, "Quick App Tip #15: Jam over recordings in Sunrizer synth for iPad". Go take a look.

Problems with Sunvox on Android?

If you are having problems with Sunvox or other Android apps from Alex then take a look at this post on his blog.

How can I get MIDI Designer to work with Ardour?

If you're an Ardour user here's a useful post at the MIDI Designer site about how to get the two of them working together.

Music Studio tips from iOS Music and You

iOS Music and you posts 14 tips on using Music Studio. Quite handy stuff really. You can read it all here.

Using BeatMaker 2 with dropbox

I don't know if anyone else is doing this, or if it's so obvious that I'm the last one to work it out. Anyway, the other day I realised that a project I was working on in Beatmaker 2 was just too much for my iPhone 4. So I decided to move it over to my iPad 3, which seemed to make good sense.

The only easy way I could think of doing it was to move the file up to dropbox and back down again, which worked like a dream (over wifi).

So if you run into that sort of problem, connect Beatmaker to dropbox to move stuff about.

Sorry if you've already been doing this for ages.



iPads at the Apple Store
iPod Touch at the Apple Store

Undocumented app tip for Geo Synthesizer

Thanks to David for this undocumented app tip for Geo Synthesizer:

If you've played Geo for any length of time, you've probably noticed that sometimes the strings turn color, to blue or red. This is not a random light show; it's actually giving you useful information about octave rounding. I asked Rob Fielding about it, and he offered this explanation:

""If Octave rounding is on, change it so you can actually see the octave control. The octave control buttons: the one on the left that does 'down octave' has some blue line on it, the one on the right has 'up octave' has some red line on it. It happens to be that the horizontal line matches which octave button gets pressed when you touch that area.

""So if you see that you are about to hit some note, like a C# and the horizontal line is red in that area, you know that when you touch it that it will press the 'octave up' button for you just before the note goes down."""

Want to build a cheap stylus?

Lifehacker tells you how with a ballpoint pen and a sponge!

Another BeatMaker 2 tip from iOS Musician

Another BeatMaker 2 tip from iOS Musician on repeated and copied patterns.

Concretedog on overclocking the Jornada and Sunvox

Some useful info from Concretedog if you're using a Jornada 720 (or thinking about getting one as I am periodically) and running Sunvox on it.

I have to admit that it does look very cool. If you're interested they are a few Jornada 720's on eBay and they're going for quite reasonable prices, in my opinion.

iOS Musician quick tip: FL Studio Mobile Pitch-Bending Secret

More tips from iOS Musician. This time, FL Studio pitch bending.

IOS Music and you: Injecting color into your Arp patterns

More Sunrizer tips from iOS Music and You.

Queue up loop recordings in Loopy

Did you know you can queue up loop recordings in Loopy?

With "Count-In/Out" enabled in Settings, and either your first loop recorded or a tempo and clock length set, you can tap several tracks in sequence, and each will count in and record for the preset length, one after the other.


It's quite handy for rapidly laying down tracks without having to interact with the interface.

iOS Music and You: iMS-20 Beat Tutorial

The iMS-20 can be quite daunting so if you're having trouble with it then take a look at this tutorial from iOS Music and you which shows you how to make a basic beat.

Breath life into an old iDevice

Some good advice and tips from Lifehacker on how to get the best out an old device. I might try one of those myself.

Multitasking list in the forum

If you haven't seen this list of multitasking apps in the forum as yet then you should take a list and we should keep it up to date too.

Check the list here.

Add a remote control to your favourite headphones

Handy tips from lifehacker as ever. I thought this one was especially useful for mobile musicians.

Sunvox MIDI Set up tutorial

This tutorial is really focused on the desktop and not mobile but as I know there are quite a few people using Sunvox on the desktop too I thought it would be of use.

Miki and his QY100

Reading this stuff from Miki has revived my interest in getting a QY100! You can still get them on eBay though the prices are about the same as the last time I looked. Anyway, Miki has found some interesting MIDI tips for the QY unit.

And a very nice picture too.