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:1.1(iOS 4.0 Tested) - August 31,2010
Category:Music
Price:Tier3 - ¥350-, $2.99(US/CA), €2.39(Euro), £1.79(UK), $3.99(AU)
Sales area:World wide
Seller:YOSHIMOTO CREATIVE AGENCY

Features version 1.1

  • For iPhone and iPod touch, Otamatones are desinged with 2 colors. Black and white are available.
  • 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.new
  • Otamatone mimics your performance with a function called "follow mode".
  • Leave Otamatone for a few moments...he starts to speak!
  • Shake device, swing Otamatone!new
  • Beethoven's 9th Symphony played by MAYWADENKI's founder Novmich Tosa is pre-installed.

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..

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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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