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Quirky App Turns Your iPhone Into a Flute
Wired: Gadget Lab —
A new iPhone application launched Thursday enables owners to blow into their handset's microphone to play flute-like music.
Called Ocarina, the $1 app creates sounds in real-time based on gestures, tilt, wind input and finger placement on the four "holes" displayed on the multi-touchscreen. The app also includes a globe view allowing users to hear other performances from around the world.
Like a real musical instrument, Ocarina is going to be difficult to master. I just gave it a few toots, and I feel ashamed, being a musician with over 15 years of ...
The Ocarina of Time iPhone?
MAKE Magazine —
The iPhone is proving to be quite a platform for portable music apps. This new digital ocarina from Smule aims to convert Apple's wonder-phone into an expressive and nuanced instrument all its own - The Ocarina synthesizes sound in real-time, just like a regular instrument, based on actual gestures including wind input, tilt, and finger placement over the four holes overlaid on the multi-touch pad. Unlike other iPhone audio apps, the sound is not pre-compiled but is generated by the notes, gestures and nuance of the individual performer. As a result, it allows an iPhone user to ...
Ocarina iPhone app has Legend of Zelda mode
Boing Boing Gadgets —
The Smule Ocarina app for the iPhone would be worth the 99 cents even if didn't boast a Zelda mode: it turns your iPhone into a musical reed instrument, where playing is accomplished by the fingering of digital valves coordinated with blowing into the microphone. It's also a social application: you can tap a globe icon and hear what other Ocarina players are playing, all over the world.
I'm eager to try it, but the disclaimer on the front page is a bit strange: "Optimized for 3G phones; for first generation phones we recommend upgrading to the 2.2 firmware when it becomes ...
The iPhone Ocarina: Link Never Would Have Allowed This [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo —
Until this week, tapping and shaking accounted for the whole of the questionable "iPhone as an instrument" experience. Now it's gone too far. The SMule Ocarina app recognizes the roar of you blowing into the iPhone's mic and coverts it to the moderately mellifluous sounds of a digital Ocarina. It comes with presets, exhibited here on video. The above preset: Zelda's greatest hits. Below: Robert Plant's and Jimmy Page's greatest indignity. [SMule via BBG] ...
Ocarina iPhone App Unleashes Your Inner Jethro Tull
GEARFUSE —
Now here’s an iPhone application worth plunking down 99 cents for. It’s an Ocarina app that lets you play notes like a traditional ocarina by allowing you to hold down valves on the screen and blowing into the microphone. Sounds pretty creative. The best part is that it comes with a Legend of Zelda mode that turns it into, well, an Ocarina of Time. It’s amazing how video games transcend reality, isn’t it? Link [ via ]
Smule Ocarina transforms iPhone into an expressive musical wind instrument
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[image] It’s Smule again, which has great app for the iPhone. This time, it’s an app that transforms your iPhone into a flute-like wind instrument, Ocarina . The iPhone Ocarina synthesizes sound in real-time, just like a regular instrument, based on actual gestures including wind input, tilt, and finger placement (sensitive to breath, touch and movements) over the four holes overlaid on the iPhone’s touchscreen. Unlike other iPhone audio apps, which sounds are pre-compiled, the sound comes out of this app is actually generated by notes, gestures and nuance of the individual performer. With the Smule’s Ocarina app on, your iPhone is now a ...
How-to: Clay sweet potato ocarina
MAKE Magazine —
We posted about the digital ocarina that's available for your iPhone. But what if you don't have an iPhone? Make a traditional clay ocarina! Then again, if you don't have a kiln it may be cheaper to just buy an iPhone. I wonder how well this would work with polymer clays like Fimo?
The techniques shown here will work for most types of ocarinas, including the four hole pendant style ocarina and the ten hole "sweet potato." On the following pages I will be making a 10 hole sweet potato style ocarina with a rectangular voicing.
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