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Mobile devices offer an ideal combination of user friendly combination, computational power and sound production capabilities. This allows us not only reproduce the original UPIC in a far smaller scale, at a far smaller cost and thus far more accessible. This UPIC iteration also allows for more improvisation and a more frivolous use, since the original was regarded as an exotic composition tool de facto constrained to a small number of composers and institutions. Of course, a mobile device offers that much of screen space, thus making next to impossible the drawing of such a detailed composition as ''Mycènes Alpha (1978)'' | Mobile devices offer an ideal combination of user friendly combination, computational power and sound production capabilities. This allows us not only reproduce the original UPIC in a far smaller scale, at a far smaller cost and thus far more accessible. This UPIC iteration also allows for more improvisation and a more frivolous use, since the original was regarded as an exotic composition tool de facto constrained to a small number of composers and institutions. Of course, a mobile device offers that much of screen space, thus making next to impossible the drawing of such a detailed composition as ''Mycènes Alpha (1978)'' | ||
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<gallery heights="300px"> | <gallery heights="300px"> | ||
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File:Screenshot_6.png|UPIC 05 | File:Screenshot_6.png|UPIC 05 | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
A user can choose between three different modulations (sine, triangle, square waveforms) by clicking on one of the three differently colored buttons. This way, a red line stands for a sine waveform, a green line for a triangle and a blue line stands for a square wave. An undo button allows to step back | A user can choose between three different modulations (sine, triangle, square waveforms) by clicking on one of the three differently colored buttons. This way, a red line stands for a sine waveform, a green line for a triangle and a blue line stands for a square wave. An undo button allows to step back and delete the last line(s). With the pinch-out gesture, all interface elements (buttons & slider) vanish, so that the whole canvas is available for drawing (pinch-in brings everything back) The user can play/stop the composition, control playback speed by moving the slider and also play in loop. | ||
When playing, a needle indicates the position on the drawing/partiture. | When playing, a needle indicates the position on the drawing/partiture. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
<references/> | <references/> | ||