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Here's how you really use your iPhone

141 points by perplexes 17y ago

pedalpete 17y ago
neat app. Here's the link in itunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/everyday-looper/id333298831?mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/everyday-looper/id333298831?m...
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harisenbon 17y ago
More than how you really use your iPhone: This is the way you really make a commercial for the iPhone. That was absolutely amazing. I have no beat-box skills, no rhythm and no music, and I still want to buy that app.
- somebear 17y ago
  Fully agree. I will probably buy it and play with it for a couple of hours, and then forget all about it.
  - bsaunder 17y ago
    I'll buy it for my kids. They would get much better mileage out of it than I will.
- perplexes 17y ago
  Hey! He recorded a tutorial for it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1187700 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1187700
chacha102 17y ago
I think I will go get the app just because that video was awesome. If every iPhone app did something along those lines, showing someone actually doing really cool stuff with the App, they would probably sell more apps. Then again, if you could do really cool stuff with most Apps on the iPhone, that might also sell more apps....
scorciapino 17y ago
Let's just hope nobody records anything obscene so that our Apple overlords don't remove it from Their store.
derefr 17y ago
This is the way I assumed making music worked when I was four. Glad to see it realized :)
- stcredzero 17y ago
  Before digital technology, you just got 4 pickers in the living room. If you wanted to record, you had them huddled around a mic. Sound balance? You just told the louder ones to move away.
RevRal 17y ago
I need this for my didgeridoo!
dasil003 17y ago
If I'm not mistaken he spits 8 bars of perfect English gibberish. So that's what we sound like to foreigners.
- phillaf 17y ago
  Hahaha, french canadian here. 1- your not mistaken 2- I still can't stop laughing. that was laaame! Even in french, this guy seems to be making words up. He's talking about how much he loves Ramen Noodles.
- aoeuid 17y ago
  If you want to hear what English sounds like to foreigners, take a look at http://www.bakadesuyo.com/what-english-sounds-like-to-foreigners http://www.bakadesuyo.com/what-english-sounds-like-to-foreig...
  - jrockway 17y ago
    That does sound like English.
  - theblackbox 17y ago
    haha: Viewed 126526 times Favorited 4 times hmmm, pretty high attrition rate there! It reminded me of a cross between Kings of Leon and Talking Heads, thankyou for bringing this absurdity to my attention!
- dazzawazza 17y ago
  Just sounds like every song in the charts to me and I am a native English speaker.
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jrockway 17y ago
Why would you do this on your phone and not on your computer? He's already sitting in front of a computer with a video camera, mic, and audio output, after all.
- dazzawazza 17y ago
  Creativity can strike when a computer isn't near you? Not everyone has a computer? It's just s toy? There are lots of reasons to do this on a mobile device.
  - stcredzero 17y ago
    By doing it with a Touch, he has a much better chance of getting chicks in a bar.
    - sofal 17y ago
      I think you have to have the headphones on otherwise the feedback will ruin it.
- DougBTX 17y ago
  He is using touch, that would give him an advantage over using a mouse. You can buy graphics tablets for the PC/Mac which also support touch gestures, basically a graphics tablet which allows you to finger paint. The same things with touch and a screen are not cheap, the cheapest one I can think of is the iPod touch actually, and if the guy already has a smart phone which can do it, why not reuse it?
- DaniFong 17y ago
  It's a lot easier to do multichannel mixing, like he does, if you can tune up many channels at once. This is way easier with multitouch.
Roridge 17y ago
Awesome!I've always fancied myself as a bit of a beatboxer... anyone know if it's available on the android?
- sofal 17y ago
  The Android sound API is unfortunately very far behind the iPhone. There is as of yet no low level native API for sound whatsoever.
  - Frazzydee 17y ago
    The way Apple has been able to attract developers to making all kinds of applications is really amazing. And this is despite all the bad press over the App Store's review process. Having a strong developer community is typically where Microsoft has excelled. What happened? Even the biggest incumbents have already been left in the dust. I've been looking for some 'cool', high-quality symbian apps, and as far as I can tell there aren't very many.
    - Roridge 17y ago
      No there aren't many, i've totally given up on my Symbian phone.. so should Nokia imho
    - cheald 17y ago
      The iPhone has market share. Developers go where the market share is. Microsoft's desktop developer community is so strong because they own such a dominant slice of the desktop market. The iPhone is no different. The Android market is making a really strong showing. It's not to the scale of the iPhone app economy yet, but with stuff like the N1 and Desire coming out, the potential for Android's market share to increase is quite strong, and with that come developers. If Android phones were to become popular enough, I have no doubt that developers would desert Apple and its punishing app store policies and gateways in record time.
      - Frazzydee 17y ago
albemuth 17y ago
I have a boss rc-2 loop station, I'm pretty sad now :(
Quarrelsome 17y ago
Isn't that basically just changing your IPhone into a Kaos pad?
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141 points by perplexes 17y ago

neat app. Here's the link in itunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/everyday-looper/id333298831?mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/everyday-looper/id333298831?m...

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harisenbon 17y ago

More than how you really use your iPhone: This is the way you really make a commercial for the iPhone. That was absolutely amazing. I have no beat-box skills, no rhythm and no music, and I still want to buy that app.

somebear 17y ago
Fully agree. I will probably buy it and play with it for a couple of hours, and then forget all about it.
- bsaunder 17y ago
  I'll buy it for my kids. They would get much better mileage out of it than I will.
perplexes 17y ago
Hey! He recorded a tutorial for it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1187700 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1187700

chacha102 17y ago

I think I will go get the app just because that video was awesome. If every iPhone app did something along those lines, showing someone actually doing really cool stuff with the App, they would probably sell more apps. Then again, if you could do really cool stuff with most Apps on the iPhone, that might also sell more apps....

scorciapino 17y ago

Let's just hope nobody records anything obscene so that our Apple overlords don't remove it from Their store.

derefr 17y ago

This is the way I assumed making music worked when I was four. Glad to see it realized :)

stcredzero 17y ago
Before digital technology, you just got 4 pickers in the living room. If you wanted to record, you had them huddled around a mic. Sound balance? You just told the louder ones to move away.

RevRal 17y ago

I need this for my didgeridoo!

dasil003 17y ago

If I'm not mistaken he spits 8 bars of perfect English gibberish. So that's what we sound like to foreigners.

phillaf 17y ago
Hahaha, french canadian here. 1- your not mistaken 2- I still can't stop laughing. that was laaame! Even in french, this guy seems to be making words up. He's talking about how much he loves Ramen Noodles.
aoeuid 17y ago
If you want to hear what English sounds like to foreigners, take a look at http://www.bakadesuyo.com/what-english-sounds-like-to-foreigners http://www.bakadesuyo.com/what-english-sounds-like-to-foreig...
- jrockway 17y ago
  That does sound like English.
- theblackbox 17y ago
  haha: Viewed 126526 times Favorited 4 times hmmm, pretty high attrition rate there! It reminded me of a cross between Kings of Leon and Talking Heads, thankyou for bringing this absurdity to my attention!
dazzawazza 17y ago
Just sounds like every song in the charts to me and I am a native English speaker.
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jrockway 17y ago

Why would you do this on your phone and not on your computer? He's already sitting in front of a computer with a video camera, mic, and audio output, after all.

dazzawazza 17y ago
Creativity can strike when a computer isn't near you? Not everyone has a computer? It's just s toy? There are lots of reasons to do this on a mobile device.
- stcredzero 17y ago
  By doing it with a Touch, he has a much better chance of getting chicks in a bar.
  - sofal 17y ago
    I think you have to have the headphones on otherwise the feedback will ruin it.
DougBTX 17y ago
He is using touch, that would give him an advantage over using a mouse. You can buy graphics tablets for the PC/Mac which also support touch gestures, basically a graphics tablet which allows you to finger paint. The same things with touch and a screen are not cheap, the cheapest one I can think of is the iPod touch actually, and if the guy already has a smart phone which can do it, why not reuse it?
DaniFong 17y ago
It's a lot easier to do multichannel mixing, like he does, if you can tune up many channels at once. This is way easier with multitouch.

Roridge 17y ago

Awesome!I've always fancied myself as a bit of a beatboxer... anyone know if it's available on the android?

sofal 17y ago
The Android sound API is unfortunately very far behind the iPhone. There is as of yet no low level native API for sound whatsoever.
- Frazzydee 17y ago
  The way Apple has been able to attract developers to making all kinds of applications is really amazing. And this is despite all the bad press over the App Store's review process. Having a strong developer community is typically where Microsoft has excelled. What happened? Even the biggest incumbents have already been left in the dust. I've been looking for some 'cool', high-quality symbian apps, and as far as I can tell there aren't very many.
  - Roridge 17y ago
    No there aren't many, i've totally given up on my Symbian phone.. so should Nokia imho
  - cheald 17y ago
    The iPhone has market share. Developers go where the market share is. Microsoft's desktop developer community is so strong because they own such a dominant slice of the desktop market. The iPhone is no different. The Android market is making a really strong showing. It's not to the scale of the iPhone app economy yet, but with stuff like the N1 and Desire coming out, the potential for Android's market share to increase is quite strong, and with that come developers. If Android phones were to become popular enough, I have no doubt that developers would desert Apple and its punishing app store policies and gateways in record time.
    - Frazzydee 17y ago

albemuth 17y ago

I have a boss rc-2 loop station, I'm pretty sad now :(

Quarrelsome 17y ago

Isn't that basically just changing your IPhone into a Kaos pad?

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