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Musical Bubbles [Android]

Very addictive music instrument. All you need to do to generate sounds is to touch your screen. Bubbles will appear, and when they hit one other, you will hear the sound. IMO it is awesome application. You should test and try your self on the musical instrument ^^. GL with your outcome.

To create your own music just start tapping the screen.

*New bubbles are created when you touch and release the screen
*Musical notes are played when bubbles collide.
*Big Bubbles = Low Frequency (bass)
*Small Bubbles = High Frequency (Treble)
*Stereo and echo Effects are included

Package: xian.bubbles

Author's description on AndroidZoom

The credit for this concept goes to the author of this flash demo: http://lab.andre-michelle.com/pulsate

This is my first android app and should be considered beta at this point, it still needs some tuning and I intend to extend its features somewhat but the intention is to keep it simple.

UPCOMING FEATURES:

*Updates to the audio samples. The sounds are generated based on some audio samples I created, they could use some more tuning. Possibly allowing the user to choose different sample sets, kind of like choosing different instruments.

*Selection of different musical scales. The audio is tuned to a set of musical notes to avoid "sour sounds". By allowing the user to select different musical scales you could make it sound more oriental, jazzy, etc.

*Some optimization, the code could be a bit faster and may allow more bubbles, its currently artificially capped at 20 bubbles, this depends on the underlying sound system in android which is fairly buggy.

*User selection of bubble color, maybe color changing bubbles and perhaps allowing the user to choose a background image in place of the solid black background.

KNOWN ISSUES:

*None as of 0.6

android zoom: http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/entertainment/musical-bubbles_gofc.html
stats(08/05/2010): 1000-5000 downloads, 16 ratings (4.19 avg note), 623 kb

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