PatternMusic Blog

It was only one year ago that PatternMusic was approved for sale on the iPhone App Store. In that past year the iPhone and iPad versions of PatternMusic have accumulated 1.85 million minutes of use through 273,000 user sessions. We at PatternMusic appreciate those millions of minutes of mobile music making. We hope you have [...]

We want to reassure all the PatternMusic fans that PatternMusic development is alive and well. We’re actively working on exciting new mobile music creation tools for the future. In the meantime… PatternMusic for iPhone and PatternMusic MXXIV for the iPad are FREE for everyone! So go out and make some music! Thanks for your continued [...]

Here are couple of incredible video productions made by PatternMusic users. Both videos used PatternMusic to create their soundtrack. Enjoy! “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” Cover by Mavie Marcos “BLD – a movie made with iPhone Apps” stop motion animation by Jetdaisuke

iPad news! The full version of PatternMusic MXXIV will be available as a native, full-screen iPad application with the grand opening of Apple’s iPad App Store simultaneous with the release of the iPad on April 3rd, and for a limited time PatternMusic MXXIV for the iPad will be available as a free download. It’s as [...]

I read arguments that Macworld Expo is destined to go the way of the dodo. The claim is that without Apple and big-name exhibitors, and without Steve’s famous keynote that the institution is irrelevant in our non-stop twittering economy where no one has time or the funds to stop the noise for some face-to-face between product [...]

Creating a sophisticated iPhone app involves a lot of sweat and toil. For some reason we developers tend to convince ourselves that because the program is running on a tiny 3.5 inch screen that somehow the problems of creating the software will be tiny too. It’s just not true. Developing an iPhone app of some [...]

When I worked at Apple and Claris we had sophisticated usability labs with multiple cameras and one-way mirrors to record every subtle aspect of a user’s interactions. We built and tested prototypes to validated our software interface designs. As a solo independent app developer I knew the value of these techniques, but I also knew [...]

It seems Apple is lowering the boom on iPhone apps that directly access the iPhone’s digital photo media folder.

Every-Damn-Day Discipline It’s at the core of things we wish to master. (Or things that master us.) I’ve taken to using PatternMusic (a tool of my own devising) every evening to create a new song. I’ve found that a regime of regular practice in PatternMusic has lead to developing my skills and ear for creating [...]