Make like Zelda and play Ocarina on your iPhone
Ancient flutes are the new virtual lightsabers! Kind of...
Okay, we'll fess up, this story has nothing officially to do with The Legend of Zelda or Nintendo. However, it does involve an iPhone app that lets you play the Ocarina.
We think Link would approve, especially if he watched the video below...
The app is the work of a company called Smule, and has just gone on sale on the App Store for less than a quid.
It synthesizes sound in real-time based on your gestures, including wind input, tilt and finger placement over four virtual holes on the on-screen display.
It uses Smule's ninja audio engine, and is the fourth app released by the company.
Want another video demo? You got it: check out this Stairway performance:
Stuart Dredge
Stuart is a freelance journalist and blogger who's been getting paid to write stuff since 1998. In that time, he's focused on topics ranging from Sega's Dreamcast console to robots. That's what you call versatility. (Or a short attention span.)