Created in a weekend using only the Nanoloop app on my phone
An intense Summer thunderstorm knocked out our power! We hung out at my wife’s parents’ house while our freezer slowly melted, waiting for the power to come back on. Most of my musical toys live at home and require power; there was not much to do other than read, eat, and play with our mobile devices.
Saturday morning, reading an interview online I was reminded of a gem of an app called nanoloop. I remember playing with it years ago (it’s quite old!) but I’d forgotten about it. I decided to download it again and see what it could do.
# ABOUT NANOLOOP
nanoloop is a quirky iOS app that you can program to make music.
nanoloop is an 8-track sequencer for iOS (and other devices) equipped with a simple square wave (with PWM) voice, a simple 2-operator FM voice, a noise voice, and a sampler. The sequencer itself is a cross between MPC-like squares organized in rows of 4 and a tracker-like “song”… more
credits
released July 11, 2017
# Recorded/Produced July 8-10, 2017 in Byron Center, MI and Alto, MI. Created with nanoloop for iOS www.nanoloop.com
and Bitwig Studio (bitwig.com) on Linux
# Special thanks to Oliver Wittchow for creating such a wonderful piece of software
# Gear used
nanoloop for iOS, v 3.26
Korg Gadget for iOS (for keyboard sample)
Roland Edirol portable recorder
Peavey MD-12 analog mixer
Bitwig Studio for Linux
LV2 IR convolution reverb community.ardour.org/node/4143
Fischer CR-110 cassette deck
Maxell UR cassette tape
# Cover created using
Image Glitch Tool snorpey.github.io/jpg-glitch/
Image Glitcher www.airtightinteractive.com/demos/js/imageglitcher/
GIMP www.gimp.org