KotoTunings 4+
Oliver Grimm
Designed for iPad
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- £8.99
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Description
Introducing Kototunings: Your Companion for the Japanese Koto!
KotoTunings is a simple yet powerful app for the 13-stringed Japanese Koto. It offers a collection of 26 traditional tunings, faithfully recorded to capture the Koto's beautiful sound. Whether you're tuning your instrument by ear, exploring scales, or just playing around with tunings, KotoTunings is designed to be easy to use.
Key Features:
1. Authentic Sound: Our app delivers the true essence of the Koto with carefully recorded tunings that stay faithful to tradition.
2. User-Friendly Design: KotoTunings is designed for simplicity, allowing you to play and experiment effortlessly, whether you're a seasoned player or a beginner.
3. Versatile Playing: You can pluck strings with ivory picks or touch on the right hand side of the screen for pizzicato.
4. Interactive Pitch Display: See the pitch for each string on the left side of the screen. Tap to hear a triangle wave with the corresponding frequency.
5. String Representation: In the center, you'll find an easy-to-follow representation of the 13 strings. Each string produces a plucked sound at its pitch.
6. Learn Easily: On the right side, you'll see the string numbers in Japanese characters. Tap them to produce plucked sounds.
KotoTunings is your gateway to the world of the Japanese Koto. Explore its melodies, study tunings, and enhance your musical skills with this app. Whether you're a seasoned player or just curious, KotoTunings brings the beauty of the Koto to your fingertips.
Download KotoTunings now and discover the world of the Japanese Koto at your own pace.
What’s New
Version 2.2
added support for Adaptive Type
Ratings and Reviews
Easily fixed
Essentially this sounds lovely and the variable tunings are great. But the app is incredibly basic and rather clumsy at dealing with note offs. The sound is chopped too quickly, this should happen over a few ms to stop the clicking, this is worst on the iPad sustain notes, which also should have a volume balance. Terrific instrument and there's potential in the app, however it always gets me angry when developers release virtually identical apps, see red koto, instead of developing the one I bought, it feels a bit naughty. That looses another star for me. Can sound delightful but needs a polish!
Kototunings
This app is extremely simple to use and the quality of the sounds is excellent.
The range of different tunings is very interesting (notes are indicated in Japanese and Western style).
It can be used as a reference by people who are learning to play the instrument as well as those who already play it and want to experiment with different ways to tune it.
As the quality of the sound is very good one can use it also to play sequences. I have done just that and fed the output into a looper with very pleasing results.
Shame that the iPhone's screen isn't pressure sensitive, so string bending isn't possible.
All in all a great tool both for learning, playing and having fun.
Great app
Great sound - no frills - lovely tunings
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Information
- Provider
- Oliver Grimm
- Size
- 38.1 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Japanese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 Oliver Grimm
- Price
- £8.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.