Gold Star Studio
SugarHill's studio tools
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
Eight studio tools from SugarHill Recording Studios in Houston, and an arcade for the wait between takes: pinball, a shooter and a racer.
Gold Star Studio is the room in your pocket, from SugarHill Recording Studios - Houston's oldest studio, recording since 1941, where Gold Star was the name on the door.
Eight tools, every one built from scratch at the studio. Nothing is sampled: every sound the app makes, it makes itself.
KEY FINDER - play a song at the phone and it tells you the key, spelled the way a chart spells it.
TUNER - chromatic, or set to guitar, bass, ukulele or violin with their tunings. Lock a string, hold it to hear the note, set the reference pitch, or match the tuning of a recording.
TEMPO TAP - tap along and read the tempo.
METRONOME - a woodblock click with the meters you need, tap tempo, a screen flash and a vibrate that you can feel, and it keeps time with the screen locked.
THEREMIN - play it with the light on the front camera: a hand over the lens bends the note. Filter, echo, tremolo, crush and vibrato on the pad.
PIANO - a piano, a Rhodes, an electric piano and an organ, with sustain and chords.
DRUM MACHINE - an 808 kit with grooves and fills.
AUTO-TUNE - sing into it and it pulls you to the key, hard or natural, with a harmony and a room. Find the key of the track first.
And the SUGARHILL ARCADE, three machines of the studio's own: REELZ, the pinball - five light shows, a golden ticket, Reel G on the head calling the shots, and a gold star ball; STAR SHOOTER, where the studio's gear comes at you in waves; and GOLD STAR GP, a hover racer with eight machines, four tracks, upgrades, rivals, hidden paths and a live synth soundtrack - steer with a tap, swipe up for nitro, and hit it on the beat.
Wear an Apple Watch and it becomes the remote: start the metronome from your wrist and feel the beat there, tap a tempo, see the note the theremin is playing, read the pinball score, and nudge the table.
Gold Star Studio listens through the microphone only while a tool that needs it is open, and uses the camera only as a light meter for the theremin. Nothing is recorded and nothing leaves the phone.
SugarHill Recording Studios - 5626 Brock St, Houston, TX 77023 - 713-926-4431 - ricky@sugarhillstudios.com
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Information
- Seller
- RYAN WAYNE DONOWHO
- Size
- 37.3 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 9.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 SugarHill Recording Studios