Sick of hearing about music apps for the iPhone?
This is going to make you feel much worse. In fact, you might just want to go somewhere else right now.
Okay, before you start throwing your cell phones at me, they are experimenting with some nice ideas:
- Tilt
- “Wind input” using the mic
- Finger placement over multi-touch holes on the device
Breath controllers haven’t gotten the play recently they once did. What this demonstrates is that you can use a mic input to fake it – though they don’t make that input variable; that is, you can’t blow harder or lighter to get different results. (In fairness, that doesn’t work quite as well with a mic, at least not without some effort.) So there’s plenty here to experiment with – and nothing stopping you from, say, using the internal mic on your laptop to play around.
Whether or not it’s a serious musical instrument, as a toy it’s a bit like a 21st Century kazoo. There’s even online sharing of songs. So I can’t knock it as a toy. I’d just like to see someone make a DIY breath controller – any ideas? (Musical breathalyzer?)
The software is $0.99. I’ll be they sell a whole bunch of them. But if you do a Zelda cover, dress up in the green suit – it helps the effect. [iTunes link]
Also on Synthtopia, who grabbed this first.