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Lets see a Blackberry do this - Ocarina.

razorianfly

razorianfly

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I just spotted this tonight, and thought I’d give you all a quick heads up on it. When you thought you’d exhausted every little thing you could perform with your iPhone, you find something you missed.
There are many uses for your iPhone’s microphone, but this one is quite a bit different to the others. App developers have realised that the microphone can actually pick up air being blown through it, and this is the basis of Ocarina.


Ocarina developed by Smule is a 59p/$0.99 electronic synth flute for iPhone.
Basically you blow into your iPhone, and use the touch screen to control the pitch of the sound by covering virtual holes.

I downloaded it 1) out of curiosity and 2) because it was 59p. I just featured it.

It sounds pretty great for a simulation.
Anyone using it, bought it? /Thoughts?

R-Fly
 

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ZOMG Zelda. :)

Downloading.

Awesome! You can listen to others playing. :O I was wondering why it asked for permission to see my location...

Seriously, someone play something from Zelda.

Edit: The video tutorial is of a guy playing the Zelda theme.
 
Yep I got it.
I can say that this is without a doubt the most addictive and fun app there is.
It works really well, and on the smule website there is a section in the forums where people can upload scores so other people can play tunes too.

There's also a cool feature that shows you a globe (like google earth) and show the location of other people playing, and you can actually hear them play in real time.
 
All it is missing is:
1) The ability to save your own songs on your phone.
2) The ability to save others' songs on your phone.

But mostly #1.
 
chrisjonny said:
Coolest show-off "look what my phone can do!!!" App yet.:p
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Yep. I had a friend say "My phone was more expensive than yours!" ($400 Blackberry) and I'm like... seriously? Also, I know someone getting the Dare and he's told me "It is so much better than the iPhone!" Sure... can yours play an Ocarina?
 
Hmm I bought it but I'm unconvinced. I have to blow pretty hard to get it to register... WAY harder than on the videos.
 
Clete2 said:
Yep. I had a friend say "My phone was more expensive than yours!" ($400 Blackberry) and I'm like... seriously? Also, I know someone getting the Dare and he's told me "It is so much better than the iPhone!" Sure... can yours play an Ocarina?
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are you kidding me?

your friend is bull**itting about the Dare.

my friend has a Dare and it sucks ass so much. i HATE it. he states that out of my iPhone, his Dare and our other friend's Diamond, mine is the best.

The Dare is so limited in... everything. I Dare you friend to shove it up his ass.
 
Um...awesome!!!

The ability to do it isn't really a shock. With the Nintendo DS microphone, you had to blow up the balloons on your cars in Mario Kart DS. But that looks to be quite an evolutionary piece of software.

I can now see little kids taking iPhones to fourth grade music classes instead of recorders.
 
it's definitely very unique and innovative use of the iphone
too bad I am just too musically challenged to be able to make any kind of pleasant sounds with it, so far it's just noise :D

I did notice there is some inconsistency with the sounds, my fingers stayed the same but the sound changed, not sure if it's me not doing it right or a bug with the player...
 
iblastoff said:
yah really. i'm surprised people aren't over these novelty crap apps by now.
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That's what I used to think about all the folks whining about no games for Mac... :rolleyes: ... just shows how much I know.:cool:

I guess crap apps, like games, have no real purpose, but can do a great job of demonstrating what your hardware is capable of, given the right software. Like all those red-hot Windows gaming setups that never, ever do anything really useful (unless entertainment counts...;) )

You gotta admit, iPhone makes BB look so old school.
 
Cool. I'm now learning how to play that flute song Picard plays after he lives a lifetime on the other planet now.



btw, what a cool idea for the dev to include the ability to hear other people playing... bravo
 
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