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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 wind instrument, where playing is accomplished by the fingering of digital valves coordinated with blowing into the microphone. It's also a social application: ...
Smule: Ocarina
ocarina.smule.com — Ocarina is the first true musical instrument created for the iPhone. Both experts and beginners will be... amazed by this innovative player. Ocarina is sensitive to your breath, touch and movements, making it even more versatile than the original. Unlike ... (more) Smule: Ocarina
Smule’s Ocarina: This Is How You Build A Great iPhone App
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The Ocarina of iPhone?
The Ocarina of iPhone?
blog.makezine.com — 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, ... (more) The Ocarina of iPhone?
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The iPhone Ocarina: Link Never Would Have Allowed This [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo — ... 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 ]

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