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The iPhone Ocarina: Link Never Would Have Allowed This

By John Herrman on November 7, 2008 at 9:12 PM

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 recognises the roar of you blowing into the iPhone’s mic and converts it to the moderately mellifluous sounds of a digital Ocarina. It comes with presets, exhibited here on video. The above preset: Zelda’s Overland Theme. Below: Robert Plant’s and Jimmy Page’s Greatest Indignity. [SMule via BBG]


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  • Pete
    February 19, 2009 at 12:29 PM

    It’s been fascinating watch the rise of the iPhone as a musical instrument lately – the Ocarina has even been featured in the SMH recently. Surely the true value in an app such as Ocarina lies in the social element – being able to listen in on other Ocarina players the world over. It takes it from being a mere instrument to something that truly takes advantage of wireless connectivity and the converged mobile device (I think having to blow into the microphone to play it is sheer brilliance). What next I wonder – a worldwide jam with any other Ocarina player? Kind regards, Pete

    http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/11/the_iphone_ocarina_link_never_would_have_allowed_this-2.html

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