# Gold Star Studio — SugarHill's studio tools

> SugarHill's studio tools (iPhone/iPad app by RYAN WAYNE DONOWHO.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gold-star-studio/id6816541501 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [RYAN WAYNE DONOWHO](https://appshunter.io/developer/6816541503)
- Category: Music, Utilities
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 36 MB
- Released: 2026-10-08
- Data updated: 2026-10-09

## What is Gold Star Studio?

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

## Is Gold Star Studio safe?

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## Is Gold Star Studio legit?

Gold Star Studio has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Gold Star Studio is 50 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.1.1 — 2026-10-08

No release notes.

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