Ensemble Blog

Music & Inclusivity Conference

Apollo were at the ‘Music & Inclusivity’ Conference at York St John University today, showing the Apollo Ensemble. We were joined by Andrew Cleaton, who has recently been interviewing people …

Interesting switches

There are lots of switches around that can be made compatible with the Ensemble, simply by using an off the shelf adaptor. Most assistive technology switches just plug straight in. …

Tips from Accessible Arts and Media

More tips from our new series of customer stories, this time from Accessible Arts and Media in York. Whilst describing their Sensory Drop-in sessions, Molly, Rose and Aled touched on …

Tip – Creating a class register

I was discussing the idea of using the Ensemble to allow some children to ‘sign-in’ to class with Doug Briggs from Omnimusic. His idea was to have a virtual register …

Tips from the Gordon Parry Centre

We’ve just publised a customer story on the main Apollo Ensemble website, based on an interview with Diane Paterson and Joanna Winster at the Gordon Parry Centre in Leeds. During …

Resource: MIDIverb Effects

The student who has been on placement with us this week has put together a list of effects on the Alesis MIDIverb. She’s given some ideas about how you can …

New Block – Logic Gate

We’ve now put the finishing touches together for our next block and we’re pleased to say that it is already available from our support website.   The Logic Gate block …

Everyone a music maker

Today I was at a conference at the National Centre for Early Music in York, aimed at making music in early years settings. I helped Andrew Cleaton present a talk …