Re: Re: Worth getting iPod touch for Live Looping only?

[Dennis Moser <sinsofmachaut@gmail.com>]

Rick,

You should also be aware that a number of the iOS apps utilize the
motion sensors in the iPod Touch: so you can use gestures as well in
your performance to control various parameters (I'm thinking, again,
of ThumbJam and MorphWiz that allow you to designate just which
parameters that will be...vibrato, flange, whatever!).

Exciting times...

Best,

Dennis

http://soundcloud.com/usrsbin
http://audiozoloft.com
http://usrslashsbin.angrek.com/



On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
> On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Dennis Moser wrote:
>>
>> The beauty of using the iPOD Touch is that it IS NOT a PHONE, so there
>> is no cost penalty attached to it.
>
> So true.
> I have an iTouch and have been researching apps for Bill Putnam and
> I'm astonished by how much music you can get out of it.
>
> I remember distinctly feeling like I  watching a new paradigm of 
>performance
> when Kevin Spears (aka KalimbaMan) played at the Y2K8 and Y2K9 looping
> festivals.
>
> He was playing small hand held African thumb pianos and then switching 
>over
> to playing a Korg Kaossilator.........everything was small, hand held and
> it allowed him to make a very cool and visceral performance (just moving 
>his
> body, singing and being the overall awesome and riveting performer that
> Kevin
> is).
>
> To add an iTouch rocking emulations of Hang drums and Kotos and Moog
> Synthesizers
> and Theremins and live looping apps and, and , and
>
> ......just really ups the whole performance bar.
>
> I highly recommend buying yourself a used iTouch if you can afford to.
> (There's even a $60 Blue microphone for sale that you can use to record 
>and
> sample
> things for future manipulations---and then send them to your computer to
> process
> further).
>
> rick walker
>