Sure, that BeatEd drum synth a couple of posts down is all very well if you like your rhythms nice, clean and pleasant sounding.
If, however, your drumming skills lean more towards Animal from the Muppets (e.g. you just like hitting things and making a racket) then NiiMe Drums might be more your cup of special brew.
A spin off from the NiiMe motion-sensing project - that aims to take greater advantage of Nokia’s accelerometer technology - NiiMe Drums is out on the 1st of May and looks like great fun.
The developer has posted a YouTube video of the app in action - it goes on a bit (a bit less footage of him fiddling around opening the app would have improved things) but it gets to the point eventually.
So - who fancies coding up an S60 guitar synth so we can form the first mobile phone band?
Actually, don’t do that, we’re pretty sure that there isn’t a warranty in existence that will forgive deliberately hitting your phone with drum sticks and though we’re not Phil Collins or anything, we’re pretty sure it wouldn’t sound very good either.
If you simply must use your phone for percussive thrills however, then this simple drum machine application is well worth a look. Spotted by the folks over at all about symbian, a very clever (and musical) chap called Saku Tiainen developed BeatEd for himself to play guitar along with. After realizing that his creation was really rather good, he gave it a bit of a spruce up and released a full public version which can be found here.
All you need to do is sequence your drum loops using the simple interface, plug your smartphone into an amp via the headphone jack, and away you go. Hit the jump for a full video demo.
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