Cool article on cell phones and music making by Amol Sharma of the Wall Street Journal. Amol refers to miniMIXA and the Slough Young People’s Center “Mashup” project. It is good to see a major news source pick up on what is happening in this space.

It is also interesting to hear what musicians are others are doing with mobile phones in terms of using them as instruments in their own right. I can’t wait for miniMIXA V3 to be released as it is getting so powerful for performance

See: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118040653210516801.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

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Well, we are now getting very close to nailing miniMIXA V3. One of the important things we have been asked for, and so we wanted to get in, was synching of microphone recordings. Well, we have done it . What that means is that you now get a count in period before you make a microphone recording - so you can get ready for your take. You can set how many bars you want this to be and how many bars you want to record for, as well as a system latency factor (as all mobile devices have different capabilities) - and the recording then synchs to the bar boundary. It is really useful and great fun!

The miniMIXA++ product will also include an autoloop recording feature. This means you can do take after take and only keep the take when you think you have nailed it.

This feature addition will make it much easier to use miniMIXA for capturing ideas on a mic, maybe as you are riffing or jamming to a background groove. You could then even sing/jam, record and sync harmonies on top.

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