Here's a collection of tunes that I made using just my iPad.

I've had Garageband on my iPad for quite a while now, so naturally I've made some tunes using nothing but the iPad. Naturally the tunes don't sound as professional as they would if I created them using a full DAW like Ableton or Cubase. The process of making music on the iPad is fun, it's great as a musical sketchpad and a great way to create and develop ideas on the fly.

I've uploaded an album of five tracks to my Bandcamp page. All of the music on the album was created using nothing but my iPad 2; I even did the artwork in Photoshop for iOS.

Overall the tracks are pretty short and mixed pretty rough. I used Garageband to do the main arrangement and some of the instrumentation but I also used quite a few other apps that have the audio copy feature.

You can buy the album for £0.99 (or more if you want to give a donation to Voltage-Controlled).But if you like, I've embedded a player below so you can also listen online for free.

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Synthetic Bits updates FunkBox Drum Machine to version 2.0.

FunkBox Drum Machine has to be one of my all time favourite iPhone music apps and now this new feature brings a whole new set of features to the table.

The app now boasts new and improved graphics and GUI that are more crisp thanks to Retina support.

The samples are also clearer which means an improved audio quality for all you audiophiles out there.

There’s also two brand new drum machines added to the line up; the LinnDrum LM-2 and the Roland TR-77 brings a whole new set of sounds to the table.

You can now also alter the pitch of any of the drum sounds in FunkBox along with the start and end point of the samples making the drum sounds completely customisable.

One of my favourite new features has to be the import feature. The ability to import your own samples makes this great app even more fun to play around with (Looking for samples to play around with? Check out some of the samples on my blog).

I was confused about how to add samples to the app at first but a quick message to Synthetic Bits via Twitter solved the problem.

Here's how it's done: In iTunes click on your device and then the apps tab at the top of the page. Scroll down to the bottom and you’ll find the ‘File Sharing’ option. Click the add button and locate the samples you wish to import. Re-Sync your device and then all the sounds should be on your device.

When all of the samples are on your device, load up the FunkBox app and go to the import page. Select the files that you wish to use and click import. It’s as simple as that.

Also Synthetic Bits has also added the ability to save your own custom Drum Box configurations and pattern banks. Having the ability to store more patterns is a real help to us beat programmers.

Other features which make this 2.0 update amazing are: Tap Tempo, the ability to pan individual instruments, MIDI in/out and more presets!

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