Show off your Auto-Tune skills with Smule’s new T-Pain contest
Palo Alto, Calif. startup Smule doesn’t just develop some of the coolest iPhone applications like musical app Ocarina. Smule has also put together the best contests to promote those apps. The latest is the “I’m on a Boat” competition to promote its “I am T-Pain” iPhone app.
I am T-Pain allows you to transform your voice with Auto-Tune technology, giving your singing or rapping the distinctively mechanical tone heard in songs by hip hop musician T-Pain and others. Now… Continue Reading
Smule’s new T-Pain app provides the Auto-Tuned voice you’ve always wanted
There are lots of music fans out there who aren’t happy about the frequent use of Auto-Tune technology in songs — a viewpoint expressed in Jay-Z’s song “Death to Auto-Tune.” But if Auto-Tune haters were unhappy about the cultural landscape before, a new iPhone application called “I Am T-Pain” will really drive them crazy.
Auto-Tune was developed by Antares Audio Technologies to correct the pitch of a musician’s singing, giving it a distinctive, mechanical quality —… Continue Reading
Enthusiasts keep pushing Smule’s Ocarina iPhone app to higher numbers
Ge Wang, the quirky Stanford assistant music professor who co-founded iPhone music app maker Smule, delivered an update yesterday on his company’s growth since starting out just eight months ago.
Smule’s big hit is Ocarina, a cool app that we’ve written about a few times where you blow into the microphone of the iPhone to make the surprisingly rich sound of an ocarina flute. Nearly 700,000 people have bought the 99-cent iPhone app since November, Wang… Continue Reading
Ocarina-creator Smule raises $3.9M to make iPhones musical
Smule, which makes interactive music applications for the iPhone, has raised $3.9 million in a second round of funding.
The Menlo Park, Calif. company made a splash last year with its Ocarina app, which turns your iPhone into a musical instrument and allows you to share and listen to Ocarina music from around the world. Ocarina was one of the best-selling paid apps in Apple’s App Store and showed up on virtually every year-end top 10… Continue Reading
Watch the 10 best performances on Smule’s Ocarina
Smule — the startup behind iPhone application Ocarina, which transforms your phone into a musical instrument — just announced the winners of “This Contest Blows,” who will receive $1,000 each for delivering the best Ocarina performances and sharing the videos on YouTube. While there aren’t any mind-blowing displays of unimpeachable musical talent, it’s definitely a nice showcase of what users can do with the app.
Here are the winners:
* Hardrockgrl’s “Oh Shenandoah ”
* David Choi’s cover… Continue Reading
Ocarina maker Smule back with a holiday iPhone app, Zephyr
Nearly everyone agrees that Ocarina is one of the coolest iPhone applications to come out this year. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup Smule created the app to turn your iPhone into a musical instrument and share your music with others around the world. And today they’ve launched another app along those lines, but with more of a holiday theme: Zephyr [iTunes Link].
While Zephyr isn’t quite as cool as Ocarina [iTunes] — there’s no blowing into… Continue Reading
Record your masterpiece on Smule’s iPhone app Ocarina
One of the coolest applications released for the iPhone is Ocarina, an app from Menlo Park, Calif. startup Smule that transforms your phone into a musical instrument. It’s showing up on a lot of year-end lists, both for best apps and best-selling apps. With the latest version, released earlier this week, Ocarina users can record and share their performances.
The app is modeled on the flute-like instrument of the same name, probably best-known to modern users… Continue Reading