The PDA of tungsten

For that they thought that we had seen all the ways to give utility to a Palm, arrives a new surprise. After to have seen how to use it like analyzer of phantoms, graphical tablet Wacom or reader of bar codes, a utility arrives that the musicians will know to appreciate. One is to emulate a DAP X/Y, that acts like controller MIDI, and so we can integrate the Palm as one more a tool of the study of the composer. What is a DAP X/Y? Those that has proven software to compose electronic music in the Palm Microbe, del which or we spoke at the time, will have seen or at the time of applying it effects to the melodies.

One is a square tactile surface in which the intensity of a certain effect is assigned to each one of the axes (horizontal and vertical), and so touching in different points from this tactile surface we controlled simultaneously both effects, to play with the combination of both. An example of these apparatuses is Kaoss DAP.

DAP X/Y KaossPad de Korg

On the KAOSS DAP, the way in which the effect is applied dog sees controlled completely by the X-Y DAP. Since the horizontal X-Y DAP lets you control separate parameters in and vertical directions, you dog do things like simultaneously controlling the delay Time and the feedback of to delay line, or simultaneously modifying the cutoff and resonance of to filter --- complex operations that would sees cumbersome with sliders or knobs. The X-Y DAP dog also sees scraped or tapped (struck lightly) to control the effect sound, letting you produces switch-type effects that plows impossible with knobs or sliders, and making it possible to control the effects in Time with to rhythm or phrase --- just ace if you were playing to musical comedy instrument.

Using the program AxisPad de MiniMusic, we will cause that our Palm emulates one of these apparatuses. we can even use sounds created in the SoundPad program or, certain cases, transmit information MIDI directly to control musical instruments. It is necessary to have a version of 3,5 PalmOS or superior to use it, although it will take advantage of the capacities outposts devices with installed PalmOS 5.

controlling two effects simultaneously from the Palm

The MiniMusic company produces other many programs for PalmOS of utility for musicians:

• NotePad works like a notebook of pentagramas, where we will be able to compose our melodies, and to even export them to MIDI.

Publishing a score from the PDA

• BeatPad is a box of rates, where we will be able to use the sound of multiple instruments to create and to publish landlords.
• BugBand more is focused to the nascent ones. It allows to learn of an entertained way to read scores, and to perfect our skill with a total of 10 levels of difficulty to practice.
• EarTrain is another educational tool, in this oriented case to learn to recognize of ear the intervals, facing perfecting our musical scales and chords.
• SpinPad is another secuenciador like BeatPad, less precise but easier to use. Sample of graphical way the compasses, with a needle that turns in a sphere similar to the one of a clock, where we placed notes. The distance from the center of the circle to that we place notes will influence in the tone, duration, volume, or channel MIDI, according to our preferences.

A publisher of rates very simple to use

• SoundPad is a tool to design sounds, that soon we will use in the other programs. It uses the Krikit motor, developed by the own MiniMusic.
• SynthPad is a simple sampleador. It allows that we record a sound of some seconds with the microphone of our Palm, soon to be able to use this sound like sample, and to touch in a keyboard with this sound just captured. It only works under PalmOS 5.
• Finally, MixPad is a complete reproducer/recorder/publisher MIDI, that is to say, can reproduce files MIDI that we copy to the PDA, and also to reproduce them in an equipment midi that we connect to the same. It has a graphics mode that it does very easy to create and to modify new files MIDI.

A complete publisher MIDI for PDA Palm

Although they are commercial programs, are available versions of evaluation to verify its operation. With them, the possibilities of use of a Palm for the professionals of music are enormous. The ability to compose or to work at any time in some melody, not only when the recording studio is had by hand, is a great advantage to take advantage of all the moments creativity.

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