Stylophone Beat - Compact Stylus Drum Machine | 4 Drum Kits & 4 Bass Sounds | Rhythm Machine Beat Maker | Drum Loop Machine

I was skeptical about how much enjoyment I could get out of a two-bar beatbox but I spent most of my first evening playing around with it and grinning. It's a simple device that packs a lot of sound-tweaking abilities away through different inputs. It's easy to punch in a drum and bass part, but then you can replay parts of a bar live at different speeds, drop out individual drums with a touch, copy patterns, transpose and bend notes on the fly and apply a great high pass filter. The tiny internal speaker is a bit thin as you'd expect but it's an absolute monster through headphones.I only have two tiny criticisms - it'd be nice if it could run off a power supply like a 9v pedal one, and when you run the output into another device (like the aux on a guitar multi effects) it can be a bit hissy. That said, I'm still on the original batteries. This is one of those devices that'll kickstart inspiration every time you're stuck for ideas. Should be on everyone's shelf!

I bought this as a toy for myself and have thoroughly enjoyed it. The kids also like to have a go. - and they often come up with something good.You get 2 bars to do whatever you want. Lots of options a sounds - couldn't be easier.It is a toy though - decent quality- but don't expect any serious professional use. It's just cool to have a little play. Take a look on YouTube - there are plenty of vids. So long as you can count to four, you'll be able to create a loop.

you can immediately pick up in it and start going, really fun to play around with it when you need to get something out of you. has limitations and bugs here and there but for the price it's great. try putting effects on it though, that's when it gets serious

If you're someone who wants to spend their life behind a screen constantly striving for perfection with a little adjustment here a little adjustment there only for your "hard work" to end up sounding absolute generic horse muck that's riddled with self centered lyrics and a complete mess, meaningless and utterly useless and embarrassing for society no help at all because you realise you're not an artist you're just simply imitating what it looks like from an outside pov because youre empty inside, never will be creative and will never know people who are...then this isn't for you.But IF on the other hand you happen to be a complete artiste then you'll be buying one of these. Such enjoyment being limited by it's functions and what a great sound you get with them.I've always fantasised about some kind of box that doesn't need a computer and after updating myself recently and reading about "groove boxes" I came across this and fully committed because it's stylophone.Literally one of if not THEE best thing I've ever bought in my lifeBuy it N O W !...be sure to try Rec sliding the bass octave right round fast, slow, up and down, play around with variations and you're coming out with Chemical Brothers sounding stuff literally within minutes.

Great gadget for making beats of your own has a record function can plug in earphones it's a good size only small downside is the cable could have been longer attached to the drumstick..small nag only item still gets a 5*

Brought this for my dad's birthday and he loved it! My dad's 80 years old and still drums. He's been in his music room making beats with this stylophone and loving it. Great gift!

My son loves it

This is a fabulous machine and I love it, it's great fun to play around on.