Nov 09 2008
Transform your iPhone into a wind instrument
I received a news release earlier this week about something that really blew my mind. My girlfriend and I sat here in awe watching YouTube videos trying to decide if this iPhone App was real or fake.
But there it is in the iPhone Apps store for $0.99 so I guess it is real. Ocarina is software that allows your iPhone to react to your touch and breath like a real wind instrument. Blow on the touch-sensitive screen at varying degrees of pressure to affect the sound it produces. Ocarina works in real time and responds to gestures to your wind input, tilt, and finger placement over the four ‘holes’ overlaid on the multi-touch pad.
Ocarina comes to the iPhone courtesy of Smule , an innovative mobile audio developer responsible for three other musical iPhone applications. Smule’s founder, Dr. Ge Wang is the author of the Chuck Programming language and also directs the Standford Laptop Orchestra
