MicroSynth for the Apple iPhone® is exactly that, a tiny synth based on a wonderful the BBC Micro Computer which is now on the verge of being 30 years old! All of the sounds you hear are actual samples taken from one of my real Micros and all of the sounds were also programmed by me. I hope you you enjoy making music with this MicroSynth.

The App is avaiolable now from the app store here,  you can also download all of the sounds that are included in the App for use in your own music or whatever here. BBCMICROSOUNDS ZIP FILE (6.13 MB) release under Creative Commons License

Pixelh8 BBC Micro Sounds by Pixelh8 / Matthew C. Applegate is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Closer to September 30th, 2011 the BBC Micros 30th Birthday I will be releasing my archive of several hundred almost a thousand retro sounds made with my BBC Micro free for you to use.

Make Music, make friends, have fun.

Pixelh8

I was fortunate to do a series of workshops for the music performance and production students at Suffolk New College, Ipswich it was mainly geared around circuit bending, not just making sounds but showing them how they could also be used. Taking toys a part, bending them and making beats out of the sounds we captured. All sounds in the sample loop below were from super cheap toys we hacked up in the workshop. Each of the groups and days were different, naturally the performance students wanted to know about different thing to the production students and good fun was had by all. Have a listen here.