Using the iPhone as a visual monitor:

When dealing with independent automated layers with similar sounds, it is impossible to know the status of each switch and slider controlling them. Since I wanted to get away from the computer as a source of visual feedback I decided on a LCD screen for this. The LCD screen was favored above LED’s. After some experience with the LCD I still had to check the computer now and then to check the sound for example or the connection. In order to be able to check this on a screen on the Electrumpet as well the most simple and elegant solution seemed to be to use the iPhone as a monitor device. A Wooden case (bamboo) from Vers audio is chosen for the holder since it is a natural material and blends nicely with the brass of the trumpet and the brass of the connection that I made.

Shared desktop applications on the iPhone are improving very rapidly. The most stable (and expensive I am affraid) solution that I found (May 2010) seemed to be iTeleport. The nice thing about using a shared desktop application is that you don’t have to make two different interfaces for the computer and the monitor. The screen is much smaller though so it is not completely 1 on 1. At the moment

I use a quarter of the MACbook screen (13 inch) for the iPhone interface.

There might be some added possibilities using the sensors of the iPhone

as part of the device as well. This is not possible with the shared desktop

application but there are other possibilities as well using the C74 application

from Leo van der Veen. This will also enable me to use the proximity, compass

and accelerometer functions of the iPhone as sensors. Will be continued......