First Look: BtBx

I was skeptical about buying this app, since I already have BeatMaker. But I've used it now for a few hours (not being able to put it down) and I can say for sure that it is well worth the measly $4! Yes, it's not BeatMaker, but it's also a fifth of the price and truthfully, it's a lot more fun to pick up and flex your musical muscles with. Oh, and I'm completely sold on the ugly interface, having seen it in action. I'm now dreading the new skin - Louis & Billy, please allow users the choice of new or old!

This app is totally worth $4, and the UI, while cheesy, seems intentionally so and is perfectly usable. I have already gotten my $4 worth out of it playing with it on the ride home. Very easy to use if you've ever programmed an old-school drum machine. I am totally digging it!! (This is the most expensive app I've bought so far for my iPhone, even...)

Jeremy I agree with you that there is nothing worse than an ugly app. That said, I like the way this app looks. It's got a cheesy 80s boombox vibe going on, which is quite funky. I'm guessing this is what the developer intended, and it works.

Dev, if youre reading, please at least provide an option to keep the visuals old skool. Maybe not by default, but in the prefs.

Thanks!
DJ

I'm still looking for a good (and cheap!) desktop app to replace Propellerhead's ReBirth.

Why buy a beatboxing program when you can learn to do the real thing for free from Youtube?

BeatMaker is the most amazing music program available for the iPhone. Stable, versatile, export/import/download your own libraries.
$20 and worth every penny.
http://www.intua.net/
a 4.5 star rating in iTunes with nearly three hundred reviews.
iTunes link here:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=285512415&mt=8

I doubt this BtBx program can even hope to match it anytime soon...

I think beatmaker has most of what this lacks and it is very professional looking/sounding and I am sure they will add some kind of synth eventually.

This is nice!
However, what I'm really looking forward to is an "Logic iPhone" or somesuch where we can use loops, program beats and such, and most importantly record and edit from the mic. Then, with a little "import from the iPod library"-support, we'd have the worlds greatest portable radio/podcast production gizmo :)

Try Beatmaker if you're up to something sophisticated. IR-909 is a replica rhythm generator as well, but it looks much more 2000s.

Purchased and love it. I like the cartoony look of it. Perhaps it makes it feel less professional, but for $4 who really cares?

It's actually pretty easy to work with once you understand the modal editing.