App Name: ZooZ Beat Lite
Developer: ZooZ Mobile Inc.
Category: Music

Another music app for non-musicians.  ZooZ Beat backs various sound samples into themes or musical styles, and then gives you a choice of a certain number of instruments appropriate to your chosen theme.  Kick drum, snare, cymbal/hat, bass, keyboard, etc.  Nothing too complex or anything.  Each instrument serves as its own track, so recorded notes are saved for each instrument and played back simultaneously.

ZooZ Beat’s hook is that it can be programmed live — in fact, I know of no way to actually stop it from being composed live, since it’s constantly playing.  Notes are entered either by shaking your device or tapping on the blue soundwave like thing at the bottom.  When used in…

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App Name: ZooZ Control Lite
Developer: ZooZ Mobile Inc.
Category: Utilities

There are a number of remote PC controllers available on the App Store now; apps to control your entire PC or just specific parts of it, like keyboard and mouse.  I think this may be the first game controller I’ve seen though.

ZooZ Control Lite essentially emulates a wireless joystick, using the accelerometer for analog stick positioning, plus virtual areas for POV hat, X and Y sliders, and 6 buttons.  You need to download the ZooZ Host in order for it to work, but connectivity is a breeze; ZooZ Control will tell you what IP to connect to when you launch it, and all you have to is click the connect button in ZooZ Host and plug…

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