In my last post I complained that it was always awkward writing longer tracks on mobile devices. Well, I've had a chance to explore Electrify a bit further and would like to partially retract that. Its Live-like interface actually does a pretty good job and I'm coming to prefer it over iMS-20. My main gripe at the moment is that live recording is somewhat hit-and-miss with far too many jumps and glitches. Hence, I had to jack my iPad into the line-in on a laptop so the quality isn't great but, anyway, here's today's experiment. Can you spot the times when I got a bit overenthusiastic with the BPM Sync Delay?

The one thing that, despite its many faults, the iPad does have going for it is the number of quality tools for knocking out ideas on the go (read: in bed. ;) ) Apart from Korg's iMS-20 and iElectribe, which I love, I've also been playing around with Electrify. As with any of these apps it starts to get tedious if you want to deal with more than about 8 bars, but for just faffing about, it's ace. Witness:

So you've set your horizontal-scrolling shooter in a subterranean dystopia, eh? No problem.

A short loop for that dramatic sequence where your game's hero is racing against time (to save the world or the helpless prince or, you know, whatever.)