Using an Xbox controller to play the guitar
One of my favourite examples of the power of Ensemble is to use an Xbox controller to play an electric guitar solo. An Xbox controller is a great sensor to …
Tip – Triggering in time
We’ve just been asked if you can trigger events so that they will stay in time (something which Mike Sissons also talks about at the end of his customer story). …
Tips from the Dales School
In his interview for our latest customer story, Mike Sissions from the Dales School expresses his belief in music as being of great benefit for the pupils at the school. …
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 …
Hardware – Adding an extra video display
You can use the Image & Video Block to trigger and control images on your PC monitor. The block also allows you to send the same images to a second …
Using any audio file with Ensemble
All of the audio files that come in our large media library are ready to use straight away with Ensemble. However, some of the files that you download from the …