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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iPad synth hits, free samples.

This sample pack contains synth hits taken from two of my favourite iPad synthesizers; the Animoog and Sunrizer.

The pack is completely free and you can use the samples in any way that you want.

Download the samples HERE

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Happy 100th

I started writing this blog back in august 2009, the main point of it was to promote my own music and write a little about what I was interested in (synthesizers and stuff). It wasn't something that I updated all the time and I have to admit that I forgot about it a few times.

About a month after I started the blog I recorded and uploaded a set of samples. The samples were really just some drum loops and bass lines that I recorded for a track I was working on (it never actually got finished). I thought it would be cool to upload them to the blog and allow people to download them to use them in their own productions. After a while I noticed that that one post with the samples had quite a lot of traffic, so I did a little snooping around the Internet and I found that I was being linked to from various websites and forums.

Soon, uploading samples here became a regular thing for me and the blog got more and more hits. Along side the samples, I also put up a few reviews and writings of my own and kept the blog running at a steady rate; posting updates, samples and reviews every time I got my hands on a new piece of music gear or software.

That seemed like ages ago but I still can't believe this will be the 100th post from me. Fair enough 100 doesn't really seem like a whole lot but when I think about all the time that I've put into writing the reviews and recording the samples I still find it hard to believe.

As I posted before, I'm in the middle of a re-imagining of this blog. The name will be changed eventually to something that relates more to the content of the blog (not just my name and a few numbers). There will also be some changes to the blog itself, I want to make it easier for new visitors to find their way around the blog and access older content without hassle.

To celebrate this milestone I've put together a new sample pack. The pack will contain synth hits taken from two of my favourite iPad synthesizers, the Animoog and Sunrizer.

You can find the new sample pack in this post.

-here's to the next 100, Dan.

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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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