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Come on, just admit it! You are a little nostalgic and fondly remember the good old days when a man was a man, a mouse a mouse and a synth ... well, when a synth was a pocket calculator or the other way around. Casios strange VL-1 instrument sold 1,000,000 units between 1979 and 1984. Trio, the German band, used it to record their huge hit "DaDaDa", and bands like Human League, Devo, The Cars followed suit. And 30 years later it is still backing tracks by Moby and Fergie. But you don't have to search Ebay to enjoy playing the "Fantasy" sound over a nice "Rock-2" blip. Now you can have the "Unterlanders Heimweh" demo tune right there when you need it, feeling a little lowlandish homesick. The VL-Tone app contain the factory presets and rhythm patterns in all their distorted and noisy glory, carefully sampled from an original Casio VL-1. Never have so few bits been sampled by so many for so little, to paraphrase Churchill. So, download a...

Here's some more info for those interested in the history of VL-Tone:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_VL-1 http://www.hollowsun.com/vintage/casio_vl1/ http://weltenschule.de/TableHooters/Casio_VL-1_PT-1.html http://www.polyvalens.com/vl1/download/casio_vl-tone_manual_uk.pdf http://steveffisher.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/casio-vl-tone-vlt-1-mini-keyboard-calculator-sequencer/ And of course ... the song :

In the eternal quest for world domination and software monopoly, following the instant success of GoodVibrations , Skrivarna Software proudly presents the Rude drum rudiments trainer . Well, to be honest, this app is rude in more than the obvious, the-name-sounds-like-rudiment way. This is beta software, and I need your help with testing it. I will state it again and again, this is a beta version. However, what it does is this: Show notation of all 40 official rudiments, with name and number according to PAS . Visually indicate where you are in the pattern, synchronized with the built-in metronome. Allow tempo adjustments between 20 and 240 BPM. Navigate quickly and intuitively between rudiments and tempos, with support for most input methods (including media buttons and screen swipes). Link to textual descriptions and instructional videos showing all the patterns individually, on pad and examples applied to drum set. The videos and examples...

To suit the many different users and androids out there, Rude can be controlled in a few different ways. See which ones you like the best. The obvious one Use the menu button and press play (to play/pause), reverse (to change rudiment to the previous) or forward (to change to the next). Tempo is adjusted via a slider control and examples are opened at the touch of a button. Some settings are also available only using this menu. The iWay Use the touch screen and swipe up to increase tempo, down to decrease it. The change is proportional to the velocity of the swipe. Swipe left to go to the next rudiment (like if you are paging through a book). Right will page you back to the previous one. A quick tap on the screen starts the metronome, tap again to stop it. Long press opens the browser with the examples of this rudiment. The convenient control If you have a headset with media control the play, reverse and forward butto...