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The iPhone Ocarina: Link Never Would Have Allowed This [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo —
... 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 ...
iZamfir rocks our world
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
Two parts ingenious, one part hilarious, the new Ocarina iPhone Application is putting our late night informercial hero to shame. The app actually uses the mic port to detect air blowing into the devices and converts it to kick ass music.
A little 'Stairway' (o noes!) after the break. ...
Smule Ocarina transforms iPhone into an expressive musical wind instrument
TechChee.com, shop online for gadget, gizmo and hot tech stuff —
... Product Page: Smule Ocarina Thanks Michelle for sending this in This entry was posted on Friday, November 7th, 2008 at 9:22 am and is filed under ...
Ocarina Turns the iPhone Into a Real Musical Instrument
TheAppleBlog —
... no shortage of applications from the App Store that allow iPhone users to let their inner musician come out and play. We’ve got guitars, pianos, and synthesizers galore to choose from. But an important detail to point out about these iPhone applications is that each one of us could potentially play exactly the same exact tunes because the audio produced is really only a result of preloaded sample sounds. Besides your own creativity in putting the sounds together, it’s all static. Ocarina from Smule (anyone noticed that I love what ...
Smule's iPhone App Turns iPhone into an Ocarina
iPhone Hacks —
... generated by the notes, gestures and nuance of the individual performer." When you tap the antenna, it loads the menu bar, giving you four options (from left to right): iPhone App - Ocarina iPhone App - Ocarina Just like any other musical instrument, Ocarina on the iPhone also has a learning curve so you will need quite a bit of practice to play your iPhone Ocarina. Smule has published a bunch of scores (each score is presented using a simple 4-hole diagram) and other tips on their website to help you learn Ocarina. Here’s a video of an iPhone Ocarino band doing Stairway ...
Opinion: The Astonishing Accomplishment Of Ocarina
Cult of Mac —
... It took me a few days to grok what’s so wonderful about Ocarina, the $0.99 app that’s been taking the App Store by storm in recent days. ...
Review: Ocarina for iPhone
Macworld —
... on through two octaves of the chromatic scale. Given that you’re playing your phone, Ocarina is remarkably responsive, though it can make mistakes—particularly if you have one of the many popular polymer protection screens laid over your iPhone’s display or if the display is overly smudged. With a clean screen, Ocarina will nearly always detect your fingers presses and lifts. Ocarina is a lot of fun to play once you get the hang of the fingerings—all of which you can find at Smule's Ocarina site —and the interface is beautiful. The icing on this musical cake is the sharing ...
Top 10 Most Useless iPhone Applications
Apple iPhone Blog —
1. Virtual Zippo Lighter - free virtual lighter. 2. Koi Pond - Lake full of chinese carps. 3. Ocarina - flute simulator. 4. PhotoFrame - as you may guess it turns iphone into a photo frame. 5. iBeer - virtual beer. 6. BubbleWrap - pop virtual baloons for time. 7. Sonic Lighter - another more interactive virtual lighter. 8. Nixie TubeClock - old lamp clock. 9. Newton’s Cradle - virtual alternative of knocking balls. 10. Spectrograph Wallpaper - shout on your phone and you get a ...
On the proliferation of crapware on the App Store
The Apple Core —
... more complex) ideas. Instead, we’re working on 99¢ titles that have a limited lifespan and broad appeal. Market conditions make ringtone apps most appealing. The problem, according to Hockenberry, is that the economics of the App Store forces developers to produce easy, cheap apps with low prices so that they’ll appear longer on the App Store’s vaunted Top 100 list. I also worry that this low price point for applications is going to limit innovation on the platform. Sure, apps like Ocarina and ...
Stemming the Crapware Flood: How Cheap Is Too Cheap?
iSmashPhone —
... is why we’re going for simple and cheap instead of complex and
expensive. Not our preferred choice, but the one that’s fiscally
responsible. Hockenberry fears that, if and when the feted "killer app" (i.e. the one program that will make everybody truly want and need an iPhone) shows up, it may slip through the cracks on pricing alone: I also worry that this low price point for applications is going to limit innovation on the platform. Sure, apps like Ocarina and Koi Pond are very cool and very cheap. But when are we going to see the utility of ...
Ocarina Review: A Real Musical Instrument for the iPhone
Top iPhone News —
... an actual instrument you can blow into on your iPhone.
Back in the 80’s when the synthesizer was were gaining popularity was the first time I had ever seen a wind controlled synthesizer. Basically, it allows the musician to use any synthesized sound and control it using their own breath, just like a real wood wind instrument. I never dreamt that this technology would be found in the phone that I carry around in my pocket! Enter Ocarina from Smule.
Ocarina uses the iPhones microphone to allow ...
Zephyr: Throw Your Creativity to the Wind
TheAppleBlog —
... “enjoyable time waster” could be the point, but that’s not always enough for some people. There were those who didn’t see the point of Twitter when it was in its infancy (myself included), yet now it is a legitimate vehicle for information dispersion, adopted by all sorts of businesses and personal users alike. But I digress. Suffice it to say, I would almost describe the concept of Zephyr as Twitter, only created with doodles rather than text.
While Ocarina left Smule fans who owned an iPod touch out in the cold (due to the requisite microphone ...
Zephyr - Your Message in a Bottle for iPhone, iPod Touch
Cult of Mac —
... From Smule, creators of the internationally captivating Ocarina app for the iPhone, comes Zephyr, a 99¢ app that is part snow globe, part artboard, part multi-media messaging device, part chain letter and altogether fun.
Classified as a Social Networking application in the App Store, Zephyr invites users to use the touchscreen to draw pictures and messages rendered in snowflakes, while the app simultaneously translates touch and movement into distinctive wind sounds to complement the written message. You can erase a composition entirely by ...
Top iPhone and iPod Gear at Macworld Expo 2009
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us —
... Ocarina Over the Top -- The folks working the Smule booth were having a hoot of a time demoing the $0.99 Ocarina, which was easily the most out-of-the-box iPhone app at Macworld Expo. Ocarina lets you, well, play the ...
Contest awards $1,000 for mad simulated ocarina iPhone skill
Infinite Loop —
I must admit that I was quite surprised when SonicMule's Ocarina became an overnight sensation on the iTunes Application Store. The application, which simulates a four-holed wind instrument that was revitalized by its appearance in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time , didn't seem like something that would see mass appeal. In the end, I was wrong and the application spent a considerable amount of time atop the Top Paid Apps list receiving rave reviews from users and reviewers alike. So, like any reasonable group of people the developers decided to take some of their ...
Smule continues Ocarina “Blows” Contest
Apple Gazette —
... The team behind the insanely cool Ocarina had a little contest recently called “This Contest Blows” that challenged people to create songs using the Ocarina App and video themselves performing. 10 winners were selected, and the video above is my favorite from the ten. Each one received $1,000 each. ...
Because iFarting is serious business
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... But we suppose there's money to be had -- someone out there is buying either or both of these idiotic apps, and as a result, both of these guys are willing to go to court over software that reproduces the sound of passing gas in the hopes of getting even more money, despite the fact that you can simulate the same effect with the human armpit. Can we cut the lawsuits and get to producing some actual software for the platform, please? ...
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