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Beat Maker for iPhone by Intua - Demo and Review

Beat Maker

$19.99
Music
Developed by Intua

iTunes Link

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The F/X menu - where you can edit and tweak your recording. Although the buttons tend to be a little hard to press, the functionality of the app is still great.	The sound sequencer - where you put the song together. Simply tap a block to enter a loop, and tap it again to remove it.
The sampler - the 16 multitouch pads allow you to creatively put a loop together, and easily show off to your friends.	The pattern sequencer - an easy to use (and pretty) menu in which you can manually edit loops.
Cut and chop your loops with your fingers.

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• Beat Maker is a music creation studio
• Compose, record, arrange, and tweak your loops into a final product
• Features:
  • Mobile Sampler Interface
    • 16 multi-touch pads for sampling
  • Sequencer
    • Multi-track song sequencer and pattern sequencer
  • F/X
    • Synchronized delay, 3-band EQ, and Bit-Crusher
  • Load/Save/Export
    • You can load, save, or export all your projects and kits
  • Extensive loop library
  • Import your own loops

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• Beautifully designed
• Great functionality - you forget that you're using an iPhone and feel like your at a recording studio
• Highly integrated with the iPhones touch capability
• Extensive kit library
• All the audio tools actually work...it's not just for show

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• The buttons often don't react quickly enough
• Instructions provided by the developer are rather vague
• The sound quality isn't great when using speakers
  • But with headphones, it's perfect
• The syncing app for the computer is still in Beta testing and hasn't been released yet (as of July 15th)

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New In The App Store: July 15th

Although the App Store started out with 500 apps, it only took four days for that number to crawl to nearly 700 apps. Apple approves developers like hot cakes, and new apps are pouring in daily.

That being said, here are the new App Store apps that were submitted this morning.

• Aria Touch
  
  • Turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into an indispensible power tool
  
  
  • Aria lets you keep track of your personal tasks and notes, but also provides access to team task management services such as FogBugz 6 and Mentat
  • Review, Update, or Assign tasks
  • Browse tasks by project, GTD contexts, a day-at-a-glance agenda, or built-in search tool

Category: Business

Price:      $29.99

• Beat Maker
  
  • Pocket-sized music creation studio
  • Compose, record, arrange, and tweak your live ideas into a complete song
  • Professional drum machines, samplers, sequencers, and mixers
  • Mobile sampler interface
    • 16 multitouch pads enable you to load, slice, tune, and trigger sounds from an extensive sample library
  • Read more here

Category: Music

Price:     $19.99

• Sun Compass
  • Use the sun or the moon to find North

Category: Navigation

Price:      $0.99

• Vecka
  • This gem of an app just shows you what week of the year it is.

Category: Utilities

Price:      Free

iPhone 3G Unlocked With SIM Adapter

Although the iPhone 3G was only released a few days ago, the heavy hand of the hacker world has already accomplished the highly awaited (and expected) SIM unlocking feat. Basically the trick includes a "piggyback" SIM card which goes in between your SIM card and the phone itself, causing the phone to read any carrier's SIM as one specific carrier's SIM (which happens to be the same carrier that signed a deal with Apple to distribute the iPhone 3G).

Check out the video:

The Brazilian team who accomplished the SIM hack, led by Breno MacMasi, said the following:

Our procedure consist in using one SIM adapter to simulate a fake IMSI test card. Instead of the AT&T IMSI like in the universals.

(IMSI = International Mobile Subscriber Identity)

This isn't available for the public yet, but I'm sure it'll go on sale on some obscure website for $19.99 soon.

[Techguru via Gizmodo]