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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How to create a custom background for iElectribe for iPad

If you've watched the video that I posted on youtube of me creating a beat with the iElectribe drum machine for the iPad you'll have probably noticed that I had a custom background image on my copy of the app.

This is a really simple feature in the app and it's really easy to do. I've had a few people ask me how it's done so I thought I'd do a short screen cap video of me changing the boring red background to something a little cooler.

As you'll see this is a fairly simple feature. But this is here just in case. You know.

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Creating a beat with Korg iElectribe + free iElectribe samples

The Korg iElectribe is a beast of a drum machine. It was the first app that I brought for my iPad but for some reason I've never really got around to uploading anything about it on Voltage-Controlled.

Anyway, here's a short video of me constructing a simple drum beat using the iElectribe, I love the sound of this app.

I've also uploaded some iElectribe samples for you lot. It's only a small pack, it contains 8 one shot drum hits from the custom drum kit I used in the video.

You can get your hands on the samples here (.zip)

Hopefully I'll get around to posting a bit more about the iElectribe on Voltage-Controlled soon.

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iPad & Guitar

The iPad is one of those gadgets that I just love to use when making music. I was a bit bored earlier so I decided to have a little recording session. Here’s the outcome.

The iPad synths are played live exept from the drums. iElectribe effects modulated live.

Drums - iPad (iElectribe)
Synth lead - iPad (Moog Filtatron)
Synth strings - iPad (sunrizer)
Guitars -Fender Mexican strat (Guitar Rig)

IPad & Guitar - Ambience in C major by dan-weatherall

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