BeatMaker And iStylophone Are This Week’s Best Things Ever
iPhone beatbox app Beatmaker has been updated to version 1.3, which brings with it some nice new features.
This release is about detail: there’s more detailed edit options in the step sequencer. You can do more with your patterns, they can be more complicated and mixed in more interesting ways.
Editing the whole song is easier thanks to a zoom control and an access bar that lets you jump from one part of the song to another.
Best of all, it’s now a proper sampler. Beatmaker will let you record sounds using the iPhone’s built-in mic, assign them to pads, and use them in songs without any extra fussing about.
Wait, though, there’s more! Have you wanted a pocket Stylophone ever since the 1970s ended? Me too!
Weeeeelllllll…
Look! It’s a STYLOPHONE! Made by the aptly-named Very Cool Software Company It goes brreeeeeeep and booooooooop and buuuuuuuuzzzz and everything.
Best of all (perhaps even the new Best Thing Ever): it lets you play along with your iPod! I’ve just spent the last three and a half minutes playing along to “Sexy Boy” by Air and it was the most fun I’ve had ALL DAY.
Hands up if you think your life will never be the same again.
Giles Turnbull is a freelance writer in England. He writes for 
