Published on Jun 29, 2014
iTunes: PinballDJ - Unified Game
"UnifiedGame proudly presents “PinballDJ” - a tool for groove composition, playfull beat exploration - and general noodling about and making things go “boing”!With PinballDJ you can create your own music by building tracks of elements known from classic pinball: Props, Boards and Plungers.
Our unique combination of a physics- and musical quantization engine thus makes it very easy to make interesting grooves. Also, our file-system allows for saving and publication of “tracks” just by sharing the image-thumbnails of a track.
In the app, there are many Props with different sounds and every Prop and Board have different properties which you can adjust to make it sound unique and varied over time. Props plays their sounds when hit by balls. Balls are fired by plungers - and boards are just…. boards to deflect balls. So - to 'compose', you place these different elements on a blank canvas called a “track” so that the balls will hit Props and make sounds. You can use more than one Plunger and you can use many Props.
PinballDJ, which is a free download, let’s you explore a couple of different sound-sets (we call them "toolkits"). Also available as in-app purchases, you can add more concurrent tracks, a recording function for recording your beats in wav-files for import in your favourite DAW - and also buy new sounds. We’ve added a “beatbox” toolkit, lots of samples from our in-house modular eurorack kit, as well as a “dubstep” toolkit.
For now we have a fixed tempo and a fixed set of possible quantizations. That, together with new toolkits, will be first on our agenda for later updates. We’re also considering adding MIDI functionalities and different filter-options - possible controlled by the phones accelerometer. For now, regrettably, we’re unable to allow for Audiobus compatibility, as our physics and graphics engine does not allow background-processing. We might look at that at a later stage.
We welcome all and every suggestions to pinballdj@unifiedgame.com. Also - we’re looking for toolkit-creators and we’re planning a couple of competitions surrounding creative use of this tool (where the best composition will win an iPad mini - we’ll post details later).
PinballDJ can be downloaded free from the AppStore - and you can check out our website, PinballDJ.com for more Info. Also, we've added a Teaser video - as well as YouTube channel with tutorials. Please don’t hesitate a micro-second before contacting us for more info etc."
