Comments on: Stylophone Coming; iPhone “Pocket Calculator” Covers Expected

By: Venera

Venera — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:29:01 +0000

Ohh shh everyone. Who cares, really?

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:05:44 +0000

I bought one of the remakes. Fun little box. One of the neat things you can do is to run the headphone jack of a Kaossilator into the MP3 input ;>) Sort of a “meet your new big brother” kind of effect, use the Kaossilator to make pattern goodness, then solo over it with the Stylophone. Hifi/lofi all together. It can be fun to turn on the Stylophone and make obnoxious low electrical buzzing noises too.

By: Lmd64

Lmd64 — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:50:47 +0000

@mistrust: Unfortunately not, no, only one app can be loaded at any given time on the iPhone, they’ve made almost no exceptions to this (apart from SMS, call and other fundamental background process notifications, which aren’t available via the SDK anyway…)

By: mistrust

mistrust — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:02:34 +0000

If you had a new Stylophone and an iStylophone, you could plug your iPod Touch output into the audio in of the Stylophone! Probably sound horrible, but never mind!

Just thought – can you have 2 apps running at the same time on an iPod Touch? You could play your iStylophone and jam along to MooCow’s band app or iDrum!

By: Lmd64

Lmd64 — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:15:10 +0000

@Peter I’m going to be spending a lot of late nights plugging away at the code and interface over the next few weeks… by the way, see you at the DEAF’08 chat with the guys from FAW on the 25th!

By: Lsd25

Lsd25 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:40:15 +0000

When I saw em live back in the day Pocket Calculator was a big crowd pleaser. They would come out from behind the big star trek style control area and play the song. Rolf had a small Honner keyboard, Floren had the Stylephone and the drummers one played a drum sensor that looked like a transistor radio and the other played the Texas Instruments Calculator.

They were at the edge of the stage and the crowd went into a robot frenzy.

There is a video live from Utreck on you tube of that tour.

Most of the rhythm track is not coming from the one drum and the album sounds different than the show.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:24:02 +0000

@Lmd64: Well, you have until November to make yours different. :) Network collaboration, perhaps? Or you could make yours into a Bee Gees Rhythm Machine!

By: foosnark

foosnark — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:20:35 +0000

I have one of the remakes. Never having had the original, I can at least say that the remakes are great fun, and just a little on the glitchy side. A nice companion for a DS Lite. :)

By: Lmd64

Lmd64 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:13:18 +0000

That audio-in socket is somewhat confusingly labeled mp3 in the manual, it’s to play your walkman out through the Stylophone’s (ahem) audiophile quality speaker.

By: mistrust

mistrust — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:32:53 +0000

I’ll only mentioned the other day (in my comment about RjDj) that I’d like to see a Stylophone for the iPod Touch, and hey presto! Here it is… can’t wait to hear what it sounds like. I bought one of the new generation Stylophones a few months ago, and I’m convinced it doesn’t sound as good as the originals. Why it’s got an “audio in” socket, I’ll never know.