Grantophone: An instrument for your phone.(grantkot.com)
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Grantophone: An instrument for your phone.
http://grantkot.com/blog/?p=41
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Just bought it and it's very, very cool. The one thing I'd change (or make an option for) is making the notes continuous rather than discrete -- if I slide my finger over, it would be great to have it cleanly transition between the notes. Great work so far!
Thanks. Yes, originally I had also wanted it to be continuous. I settled on discrete pitches to make it a little easier to pick up. I will be adding sliders and stuff so you can change the tuning parameters as well as the other other parameters.
I just watched the author's tutorial video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKJC6cqdGdE). It's clear that he's a musician.
It's fascinating when people with a deep expertise in another subject can also write code. Makes me wish I had a deep understanding of some other field.
It's fascinating when people with a deep expertise in another subject can also write code. Makes me wish I had a deep understanding of some other field.
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Yes, Grant is a very talented cellist (he's currently studying at Julliard).
I can't believe I never thought to do this myself. I have always wanted a Kaossilator.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3_yXmIfmYg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3_yXmIfmYg
Never heard of a Kaossilator before; it looks like great fun, and more to the point it lends itself completely to being an iDevice app. Hope somebody ports it asap!
This is one of the coolest presentations I've seen at Hack & Tell.
My favorite thing about this is that he's extremely good at playing it. I also have an instrument app that allows for continuous pitch + autotuning (http://www.iansimon.org/fingrophone/), but his looks like it allows for way more expressivity.
No videos demoing fingrophone?
This is available for windows phones as well as iOS. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/grantophone/id476003757?mt=8
Saw this presented at the most recent NYC Lean Startup Machine. Grant is one creative son of a gun. I'm very excited to see this app evolve (and get onto Android).
Most interesting...I wonder what the author's reasoning was for developing for Windows Phone?
I've actually been a C#/XNA guy for a really long while so it was easier for me to develop for WP7 first. But it is also available on iOS now.
Thanks for replying.
Very disappointed to find out that's a Sammy WP7 and not an Android. Wish I could buy it!
Sorry, I am trying my best to get it out on Android as soon as possible. There is a minor snag I've run into and trying to figure out.
Also, there are a lot of features that I will be working on adding. I started this project without much experience in audio programming (I had an idea for something I wanted to make and decided to go for it and I'm learning as I'm going) so until now I have mostly been researching and planning. Development will be picking up now and I will be adding much more control and customization.