Raindrops – iOS Music | Meditative | Ambient
It's been a long time since I've uploaded a video!
I've actually made a lot of music over the last year. But because of work and life, I haven't had time to make/edit a video. With COVID-19 shutting down most things where I live (including my work), I've had a lot more time to myself, so I can (hopefully) share more of the music I've been making in the next few weeks!
In previous posts, I've mentioned the benefits of meditation and how the current pandemic actually gives us opportunity to do so. With that, I like to provide music that is more along the meditative and ambient lines. Here, a slow, ambient piece centered around musical 'raindrop' particles and ambient noises.
If you look at almost all of my previous music releases on Youtube, they are almost all done exclusively on VCV Rack, which is a synthesis platform and environment that works like Eurorack modular synthesis. But instead of needing to purchase massive, expensive racks and hardware, VCV Rack is a free software that has first and third party plug-ins, offering musicians the ability to do the same for pennies on the dollar!
However, since even VCV Rack requires a lot of computing power to run, I've been making music moreso on my phone these days.
The iOS music environment is almost just as modular. As explained in my video, you can take MIDI apps and route them into audio and sound plug-ins to make music. For those who don't know MIDI (which stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a protocol that allows you to control different instruments. You can use it to send pitch information, volume information, and other kinds of things to control musical instruments. A large majority of all electronic musical instruments have some form of MIDI. For example, if you've ever set foot in a music store and seen electronic keyboards and such, they are all controlled by MIDI.
Because specialized apps are the way to go in the iOS environment, a ton of developers have created a lot of different apps for making music. And as the music creation became more mature, developers began to create apps like AUM and Audiobus so that musical apps could talk to each other and work with each other. Thus, you can piece together your own instrument, sounds, and music in any way you would want!
I'm still in the beginning stages of exploring this new form factor, but I felt I wanted to release this one anyways. Since I've been blogging on Coil, as I release more music, I'll also be posting here about making music, how-to's, and various other things.
Enjoy!