...dude! you've got an iPhone right? http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flourish/id336670414?mt=8 I just saw this... Read More

Recently I've been preparing to move home and finally did last weekend. Naturally I had to pack up all my musical gear, equipment and of course, my Mac. In the week leading up to the move, I've had my iPhone and nothing else. With no creative outlet and the pressure of looming project deadlines, I found myself scouting the app store for a fix to help me start fleshing out a few creative ideas. This is what I found that worked well for me. The iTunes Store describes TonePad Pro as "...the easiest way to make music. Discover the inner musician in you. Create songs by simply touching." And this is exactly what I found. With a 16 x 16 matrix, and an easy-to-use user interface (literally start tapping your fingers and music is made), I found myself coming up with little melodies and tunes immediately. Although you only have the Read More

Armchairs DJ’s, Hairbrush Pop Idols, Air guitarists and Table Top Drummers everywhere, stand up, your time has come! Flourish by Explore and Create Limited is a fresh new app which gives you the artistic freedom to make beats and musical compostions on your iPhone or iPod touch. So how Does it Work? Well, Flourish represents musical phrases as physical loops, you can record them with the multi-touch keyboards, generate percussive and melodic sequences, build arrangements by ear or by eye, select from a consonant collection of instruments and sequence loops by connecting them in chains. It sounds complicated but it is so intuitive that its just great fun. It took me a few goes to find my way around the interface but in no time at all I had cracked it and was creating some really impressive sounds. Here is a demo: Flourish is as exciting and colourful as it is Read More