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Beatmaker is awesome. It's basically a VERY capable sketchpad. Once audio import/export is available I can see it becoming quite useful. Worth the coin for sure! If I can mess around with samples and fx on break at work I'm happy!

It looks cool for sure, DLing now...

On a related note, this whole time I thought the headphone jack on my iphone was screwed because I kept trying to cram my many apple headphones from countless ipods into the jack with little to no result. Then it dawned on me that maybe Apple made different headphones for the iphone. I opened the dusty box, there they were, and sure enough, yet another Apple product that looks the same but isn't quite. Bastards.

Time to buy another adapter so I can listen to this on something other than their shit ear buds. Thanks Apple. I hope that .0015 mm you added to the casing so no other headphones will fit added to the performance.

I just used a razor to trim a little plastic from my headphone jack. The new iPhones don't have this issue btw.

Blip the Kid wrote:Once audio import/export is available I can see it becoming quite useful.

Damn? If it did allow you to use your own samples, it could easily fill in the 5-15 second dead space between loading Live sets.

The software to allow import/export is in beta. http://www.intua.net/shop.html

I just DL'd it.

a colleague at work just offered me his ipodtouch 8GB for 175 € because he got himself the new iphone.

As I alrady have a working mobile phone, the ipodtouch would allow me to use beatmaker, and send emails and surf the web via wifi, isn't it?

175 seems to be a steal. Should I do it or is an ipodtouch 8G too small for really using it?

The app is only 118MB, and can only load upt o 35MB of samples at once anyway, so 8 GB is more than enough. I daresay that's what the vast majority of iPod Touch and iPhone users are using too.

pepezabala wrote:a colleague at work just offered me his ipodtouch 8GB for 175 € because he got himself the new iphone.

As I alrady have a working mobile phone, the ipodtouch would allow me to use beatmaker, and send emails and surf the web via wifi, isn't it?

175 seems to be a steal. Should I do it or is an ipodtouch 8G too small for really using it?

The iPod Touch is due a refresh in the near future, probably in a month or two when the Apple Back To School promotion ends. They're likely to drop the price and / or increase the storage for the same price - which will make the price you're being offered the 8Gb model for expensive. Plus you'll have to pay for the v2 software for it to use the App Store if he hasn't already - its not a free update.

jonny72 wrote:

pepezabala wrote:a colleague at work just offered me his ipodtouch 8GB for 175 € because he got himself the new iphone.

As I alrady have a working mobile phone, the ipodtouch would allow me to use beatmaker, and send emails and surf the web via wifi, isn't it?

175 seems to be a steal. Should I do it or is an ipodtouch 8G too small for really using it?

The iPod Touch is due a refresh in the near future, probably in a month or two when the Apple Back To School promotion ends. They're likely to drop the price and / or increase the storage for the same price - which will make the price you're being offered the 8Gb model for expensive. Plus you'll have to pay for the v2 software for it to use the App Store if he hasn't already - its not a free update.

I'm not going for an ipod touch until they have at least an 80 gig driver. I can't believe they make these with the large screens and all the other options and yet a relatively tiny driver. Get a couple movies on it and it's already full.

beats me wrote:I'm not going for an ipod touch until they have at least an 80 gig driver. I can't believe they make these with the large screens and all the other options and yet a relatively tiny driver. Get a couple movies on it and it's already full.

You could have a long wait for that. The ram chips they use in them are very expensive especially for higher capacity ones. I guess we might see a 64Gb version when they do the next refresh but it ain't going to be cheap - the 32Gb version is £330 at the moment.

What size / format are your movies? I convert all mine with iSquint and they come out at about 300Mb which isn't that much.

PCs rule!

*getting the fuck outta this thread fast*

jonny72 wrote:

beats me wrote:I'm not going for an ipod touch until they have at least an 80 gig driver. I can't believe they make these with the large screens and all the other options and yet a relatively tiny driver. Get a couple movies on it and it's already full.

You could have a long wait for that. The ram chips they use in them are very expensive especially for higher capacity ones. I guess we might see a 64Gb version when they do the next refresh but it ain't going to be cheap - the 32Gb version is £330 at the moment.

What size / format are your movies? I convert all mine with iSquint and they come out at about 300Mb which isn't that much.

I'm really not hurting for a new ipod but just saying I won't get a touch until they increase the drive size to fit my (and a lot of people's) demands. I'm not losing sleep over it.

I use handbrake to convert movies and make them all come out to 800 Mb, but that's also because I also watch them on my 42" TV through Apple TV. 800 Mb doesn't quite cut it for a hidef tv but the picture isn't all that bad.

A Dave Matthews Band setlist app has now been uploaded to the iTunes store!


Way cool! Finally I can track his setlists!


Man, I love my iPhone - and the fact that it brings me closer to DMB.


http://www.weeklydavespeak.com/media/mu ... the_iphone


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Blip the Kid wrote:Beatmaker is awesome. It's basically a VERY capable sketchpad. Once audio import/export is available I can see it becoming quite useful. Worth the coin for sure! If I can mess around with samples and fx on break at work I'm happy!

Just got an iPhone and installed Beatmaker. Seriously this thing is sick! I can easily see people using it as their only sequencer. Step sequencing on it is really fun, way more so than with a mouse.