Daft Machine

[Casey Rain]

This is a very small but very cool application for anyone, like myself, that is a fan of the French dance duo Daft Punk.

For someone like me who's been a Daft Punk fan since their first single "Da Funk" way back in '97 (I still have the cassingle somewhere ) this is a particularly awesome app.

It should be pretty obvious from the picture what this app does, but I'll explain anyway. It's basically just a soundboard (and a very responsive one at that) that plays the vocoder vocals from the song "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger".....some of you who aren't dance music fans may know that song from Kanye West's sampling of it on his song "Stronger".

I was very impressed with the quality and level of the sounds. Loud, and clear.......giving you hours of fun! (OK maybe not hours, but at least a few minutes).

I'd like to see them add:

Pitch Bending (like on this one that it's based off)

A music loop of the "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" so that you can hit the pads in time with the song.

More songs, like maybe "Around The World" (although that would only need one pad), but a good one might be "Technologik" - that would work just as well as "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger", IMO.

That's it! Enjoy the app! Thanks to Android-France.fr for the screenshot.

[*susan*]

Thanks for the review, nice job!

[Casey Rain]

Just like to point out that an update was sent out today, adding Pitch Bedding/Alternate Tones. Very cool, props to the developers for listening to the feedback given.

[prash]

I love this app. Seriously a lot of fun to play with. Thanks CaseyRain for the review, it led me to try it out. Big fan of Daft Punk here too.

[texas_born]

if only someone could make a drum machine I would pay a lot for one it uses this same idea but u can add your own tones and create beats and save them

[reppate]

I second that, texas-born. there have been a few attempts do do that, but lag issues have made it not so nice. I'm hoping as more people get their chops on 1.5 someone could crack that situation. I've yet to get 1.5 pushed to me yet... so I don't have all the information in front of me. We'll see.

[Casey Rain]

Glad you enjoyed the review Prash.

There isn't much to this app, but it will definately be a lot of fun for any Daft Punk fan.

There's a drum machine in the market, texas_born. It's called Electrum and is pretty good. It's a bit quiet though, which is annoying.

[reppate]

edit: lag on the new daft machine has been worked out. awesome! I don't know if it's possible, but if a loop type of situation is set up... I think it could be awesome to somehow link different g1's together so their timing is synced. (using BT maybe?) That feautre would especially be cool if different instruments could be selected (i.e. drum samples and basslines perhaps). Just a thought.

It's more on route to where I'd like to see music based apps go. It would be a little bit more open, rather than restricted to one particular song. No offense intended. It's all going in the right direction - and that's excellent.

[texas_born]

Glad you enjoyed the review Prash.

There isn't much to this app, but it will definately be a lot of fun for any Daft Punk fan.

There's a drum machine in the market, texas_born. It's called Electrum and is pretty good. It's a bit quiet though, which is annoying.

I bought it but didn't like it its not the drum machine I want. I hate saying this but the. iphone has an app for like 20 bucks its really awesome I forgot the name but I would pay that much prolly more if there was an app like that for us.

[reppate]

Intua Beatmaker might be the app your talking about... I think. Electrum was the app that had lagged quite a bit. Melodica is cool because it loops. in videos, people create 'attempts' at songs, but I don't think one can save songs. Maybe if we could save songs, and even have the songs tranlated into text files so that people can send them to other people, and then converted back.