So, you never have enough time to record a new tune? You have millions ideas in your head and they all go unrecorded because you are not in front of laptop or desktop box with your favorite editing software? If you are lucky enough to have Android Phone with this really simple work-flow you can start capturing your ideas and turn them into songs.

You will need to install only two free apps from the Market, SoundTrail and Robotic Guitarist and with the native Android Music Player you can start composing new songs whenever a new idea strikes you anywhere. You can also use any notepad (my favorite is AK Notepad) to write the lyrics starting to circle around your melodies so you don’t forget them.

Robotic Guitarist

SoundTrail

Start by tuning your guitar with the excellent tuner featured in Robotic Guitarist, or layout few chords in the same app to make your chord base for your new idea, test how it sounds when you are away form your instrument . Robotic Guitarist is offering you all possible guitar chords with option to have 7 chords to play with in same session. Once you have your basic idea, record it with SoundTrail with your guitar, piano or just whistle or sing.

You can play your base in the music player and launch the SoundTrail on top of it. This is one of the great advantages of Android, running up to six apps in the same time and they can all share device I/O sound capabilities. You can’t do this on iPhone yet.

Since you will need some sort of mix/edit software to hear all your separately recorded files/tracks, you can use the excellent and free indabamusic.com collaboration app, to upload your tracks (small downside is you will need to convert AMR SoundTrail file format  in to MP3) and mix them in their free Java based mixing console. Works really well on both Mac and PC. In the same time you can start sharing your ideas with your collaborators and download their takes and mixes on your phone and meditate on top of them in infinite iterations until you are sure you nailed that song down.

You can use all this apps and services for free. Free Indaba account limits you to only six sessions, but that is more then enough for idea capturing. What’s not free is your mobile data plan and of course you will need to end up in pro recording studio to turn your drafts in to everlasting recordings.

I recorded this last night. Music aside, the KorgDS10 is with amazingly well designed workflows and sweet UI.

Thinking of this myself for a while. Some people are already doing it. Awesome combination.

On the photo above are Erik Truffaz, French trumpet player and the Indian Project. The gig was great.

On friends invitation, I went to a punk rock gig after long long time. I’m going to be honest: Never heard of the band Rancid before.

Just this morning, I checked myspace to hear the band. Punk, ska and reggae, all in all, not bad at all. But, I have a problem with this … To me it all sounds like Clash on loop for ever. You can call me old, aging or whatever – it is just not creative as it was.

With all respect to all this American punks (and you punks don’t forget where the real meaning of punk is coming from), my soul is searching for something more inspirational, or musically more chalanging.

It says on the official Nintendo website it will be released in UK 10/10/2008. Can’t wait to put my hands on this. My daughters will wonder why am I suddenly so interested in Nintendo DS again after I completed Zelda long time ago.

I used to like them a lot. I think I still do.
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The Magic Numbers – Royal Festival Hall 05 Dec 2007

It was magical. I checked the band’s site in November just to see what they are up to, and when I checked the Gigs section I saw a London date. Bought 2 tickets straight away.

It is one of my favorite bands since their first self-titled album released 2005. That summer the only tracks played in my car on holiday trip accross France were The Go! Team and The Magic Numbers.

The band played nearly 60% of the concert with the Robert Kirby String Orchestra. This fusion added another beautiful dimension to their lovely crafted and amazingly singed songs. It was truly magical evening. I’m so glad musicians like this pair of brothers and sisters are around. I must say Romeo’s talents are enormous.

Check their latest stuff, it’s brilliant.

This link led me to this one and finally the video above. Amazing. Starting to build one now, as this is too pricey for me.

Ах, па не энаете колку ми е драго што сега сите энаете эа Бадмингтонс. Браво эа Стотројка.Картер, Бут и Деко – од се срце ви честитам и уживајте во эалужениот статус.Можам да эамислам како ќе биде на свирка на Таксират!