MAYWA DENKI

Otamtone for iPhone, iPod touch App

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Touch, pinch, and tilt to play. KAWAII.

Otamatone™ is a musical instrument application. You can make sounds by touching screen and tilting a device. Japanese art unit "MAYWADENKI" and toy manufacturing sales company "CUBE" have jointly developed and created electronic instrument Otamatone™, that now can be enjoyed with iPhone and iPod touch.

Otamatone
Current Version:1.21(iOS 4.2 Tested) - January, 2011
Category:Music
Price:Tier4 - ¥350
Sales area:World wide
Seller:YOSHIMOTO CREATIVE AGENCY

Features version 1.21

  • New performance mode "Otamatone Melody" available. You can easily play 11 songs that everyone heard.new
  • For iPhone and iPod touch, Otamatones are desinged with 5 colors. Black, white, pink, yellow and blue are available.new
  • Retina Display and iOS 4 multitasking support.new
  • Performance recorder and play back functions available. You can save up to ten tracks, each for about five minutes.
  • Otamatone sings in low, middle and high tones and volume can be adjusted.
  • Displays the current pitch in balloon named "FUKIDASHI Tuner".
  • Otamatone mimics your performance with a function called "Follow mode".
  • Leave Otamatone for a few moments...he starts to speak!
  • Shake device, swing Otamatone!
  • Toggle the display of the Record button in the center of the screen.!new
  • Beethoven's 9th Symphony played by MAYWADENKI's founder Novmich Tosa is pre-installed.

About Otamatone Melody

You can easily play 11 songs that everyone heard in this mode. You chose a song from the list and just touch Otamatone's mouth to make sounds. Every pitch is replaced next by just touching the screen.

  • Shake the device while playing, change the pitch like Wow Wow Wow...
  • Each songs can be recording and play back.
  • These songs are included...

- Chorus frog, German folk song
- Greensleeves, British Folk
- Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Grandfather's Clock, Henry Clay Work
- Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, French Folk Song
- Itsy Bitsy Spider, Switzerland Folk
- For Elise, Ludwig van Beethoven
- Wedding march, Felix Mendelssohn
- Silent night, Franz Xaver Gruber
- Symphony No. 9 4th Movement, Ludwig van Beethoven
- Auld Lang Syne, Scottish Folk Song

How to play

Touch Otamatone's mouth to make sounds. Tilt a device vertically and pitch of the sound changes. To play in different tones, slide your finger to open its mouth. You can play with single/double finger(s) methods..

Support

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Credits

MAYWA DENKI President
Novmichi Tosa(twitter / MAYWA DENKI
Project manager, Art director
Hitoshi Taguchi(twitter / Ikkac Inc.
Programmer, Motion design
Keijiro Iwase(Act1 Corporation
3D Modeling, Rendering
Manabu Nakamura
Project assistant
Mizuko Matsumura
Special thanks to
Tomokazu Shimokawa
Produced by
ONE PLUS ONE
Published by
YOSHIMOTO KOGYO CO.,LTD.

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