Making Music with Mobile Devices

Now, with the help of a growing number of programmers and manufacturers, we can employ mobile music-making devices to make music remotely. Making Music with Mobile Devicespurpose is not only to give you new ideas for making music while you are waiting in the subway or on a break at work, but also to show you how to incorporate those mobile music sessions back into your home studio sessions. It offers a survey of the available technologies, hardware, and software available for making music on mobile devices, as well as direct instruction and tutorials on how to set up music software on mobile devices and then integrate your music into a stage or studio setup. Additionally, this book covers how to integrate mobile devices into the home recording environment for use with software such as Pro Tools, Ableton Live, and more.

About Making Music with Mobile Devices

• Teaches musicians how to create and capture inspiration wherever they are using popular handhelds.
• Explains how musicians can integrate their mobile device into their home studio setups.
• Provides methods of employing mobile devices for live performance.
• Offers instruction on how to use the hottest applications out there for mobile music making.
• Learn to make music with these mobile devices:
• Nintendo Game Boy
• Korg DS-10/DS-10 Plus
• BeatMaker
• iPod Touch
• iPhone

From the Introduction

“Regardless of your methods [of creating music] in the past, if you’re looking at this book, you most likely have a notion that there could be more ways of making music remotely. . . . This book’s purpose is not only to give you new ideas for making music while you are either waiting in the subway or on a break at work, but also to show you how to incorporate those mobile music sessions back into your home studio sessions. The compositions that I’ve prized the most in the past have been the ones that I began or was inspired to write in moments of excitement, adventure, and emotion. . . . The songs from outside the studio have something that can’t be manufactured by machines or by instruments–they have a story.”
–G. W. Childs IV

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Benefits of Mobile Music
Chapter 2 Nintendo Game Boy
Chapter 3 Korg DS-10/DS-10 Plus
Chapter 4 Apple iPhone and iPod Touch
Chapter 5 BeatMaker
Chapter 6 Handheld Studio Integration Part 1
Chapter 7 Studio Integration Part 2
Appendix: Upcoming Technology