Category Archives: Music

Tokyo Run

Posted on August 17, 2012 by simon

I really want to play the video game that would do justice to Tokyo Run, an awesome short film / music video by woob – the creator of the classic em:t 1194. The video features awesome time-lapse photography, sweet high-def lo-fi futuristic-retro graphics, … Continue reading →

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Instrumental Improvements

Posted on August 8, 2012 by simon

I’m currently trying to do too many different things at once, so everything is taking a lot longer than I expected to complete… even so, I have almost finished work on a minor update for Instrumental. So far this includes: Retina … Continue reading →

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Instrumental drivers updated for Reason 6 and Reason Essentials

Posted on February 2, 2012 by simon

I’ve just updated Instrumental’s Propellerhead driver to better support Reason 6 and Reason Essentials. The update includes: support for the Master Section and Main Mixer Channels in both Reason 6 and Reason Essentials. Default mappings for the new effect units in Reason … Continue reading →

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Hexagon Toccata

Posted on June 28, 2011 by simon

Bach’s Toccata & Fugue in D Minor has always been a favourite of mine. Here’s me attempting to play the first section using Instrumental’s Wicki-Hayden keyboard. I’ve set the surface to display D Minor to help keep me oriented.

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Instrumental Demo Video

Posted on June 9, 2011 by simon
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Wicki-Hayden, Instrumental Style

Posted on June 8, 2011 by simon

Instrumental’s Wicki-Hayden surface provides a large hex keyboard at three different sizes, along with a variety of colour schemes (piano, minor thirds, minor fourths, etc), and a configurable control panel that can house a variety of faders, rotaries, buttons, switches … Continue reading →

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It’s Instrumental!

Posted on March 18, 2011 by simon

The program previously known as MidiPad shall henceforth be known as Instrumental. I feel this name better reflects what the program does, and is also a pun . I had been planning to release on the App Store by now, … Continue reading →

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Instrumental is coming…

Posted on January 10, 2011 by simon

Instrumental is a wifi midi control surface for iPad and iPhone. It includes four different surfaces: a 4×4 drum pad, with plenty of rotaries and switches an 8 or 16 channel mixer, with almost 100 separate controls a Wicki-Hayden hexagonal … Continue reading →

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The Space Between The Stars

Posted on August 5, 2010 by simon

Robot Monster has just released a new single, ‘The Space Between the Stars’. Have a listen and mellow out http://robotmonster.bandcamp.com/track/the-space-between-the-stars

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