The developer calls it musical geometry, and that’s a great description. The idea behind the app is that you have a faucet dropping out balls at a particular tempo. You draw lines for the balls to bounce off of. The faster they are going when they bounce, the higher the pitch of the sound they make.

As you can imagine, if you get enough lines to restrict the balls and direct them in the right direction, you can get quite a sound going. The app is at it’s most musical when you have just a few lines. The sounds it can make in these cases is pretty interesting.

Soundrop is free, and it’s very fun. I’ve found myself more than once wrapped up in Soundrop for more time than I want to admit. Give it a shot, it’s a Universal app that works on both the iPad and iPhone. Though the app really shines on the iPads larger screen.

And did I mention it’s free?

FREE!

Soundrop

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad
Released: 2010-04-01 :: Category: Music

Apple, apparently still sore from the lashing it took over approving the I Am Rich application has started rejecting application it deems has having limited use. While this is not detailed anywhere in the developer agreements or store agreements, Apple now has the ability to do so. One of the problems with the App Store is that developers are 100% reliant on Apple for everything. They control to the keys to the store.

The app in question is a simple fart sound board application. Stupid yes, but there are hundreds of limited utility applications in the store. So this reason for rejection doesn’t make much sense. Seems as though Apple doesn’t like fart sounds as there was another application, Whoopie Cushion from developer DoApp rejected for another reason, community standards.

The real risk with this is that developers may spends hundreds of hours on an application and have it rejected for reasons not listed in the agreement — or worse yet, based on the reviewers opinion.

[via Daring Fireball ]