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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 Official Instrument of Zelda comes to the iPhone - The Ocarina
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ocarina There are apps for the iPhone you never knew you needed until they emerge out the murky developer darkness. Smule's Ocarina app is one of those apps. For 99¢ you can turn your iPhone into the musical instrument of the ancients. The Ocarina app is played by blowing into the microphone at the bottom of the iPhone. The app includes the ability to listen to others playing the app with a pretty slick image of the Earth and music emanating from it. ocarina Smule has a tutorial for beginners, too bad I didn't bother to check it out. Check out my first horrible try at the Ocarina then check out what a real master of the app can do. Robbie ...
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] ...
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
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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 ...
Smule's iPhone App Turns iPhone into an Ocarina
iPhone Hacks —
Before I get into the details of Ocarina, the iPhone app, let me give you some background about Ocarina, the instrument. A description of Ocarina, the instrument from Wikipedia : "The ocarina is an ancient flute-like wind instrument. While several variations exist, an ocarina is typified by an oval-shaped enclosed space with four to twelve finger holes and a mouth tube projecting out from the body. It is often ceramic, but many other materials, such as plastic, wood, glass, and metal, may also be used. The ocarina is a very old family of instruments, believed to date back some 12,000 years." Ocarina - The Instrument A description of Ocarina, ...
