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#1 Steelpan App - Official 'Boogsie Sharpe' 2012

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Uploaded by on May 10, 2011

itunes link http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/1-steelpan-app/id435343099?mt=8

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.app.mobile.SteelPan&feature=sea....
This steelpan app is a one of a kind application for your ipad/iphone or Android Phone/Tablet. The user will be able to play an entire range of a steelband/steel orchestra in this one application. The user can also do this in different styles in the form of a Tenor, a Double Seconds or a Six Bass. The sounds that you hear coming out of this application are real steelpan sounds/tones. They are not samples or computer generated.

Tapping your screen with your finger will produce a regular sound like playing the steelpan with a pan stick once. By keeping your finger on the snear drum icon and then keeping your finger on any note/chord you will be able to create a sustained rolling effect as though you were rolling with two pan sticks.

There are several steelpan screens. There is a Tenor steelpan screen, a Double Seconds steelpan screen and a Six Bass steelpan screen. With each of these layouts you can press the up and down arrows to change your octaves. As a result, although you are playing the Tenor layout on the Tenor screen, you can press the down button to get lower steelpan sounds/tones, covering the full range of the entire steelband/steel orchestra going as low as the Six Bass. The same applies to the Double Seconds and Six Bass screens. If you press the up arrow it will take you up to the high octaves in the Tenor range (octaves 4, 5, 6 and 7) or you can press the down arrow to go as low as octaves 1 and 2 in the Bass range.

This application is protected under US Patent# 7,030,305 and European

Patent# EP1837859

#1 Steelpan App
© 2011 Salmon Cupid, All rights reserved
Licensed to Nape, Inc., 2011
www.napeinc.com

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  • If there's ever an update to this there should be middle pans (or at least the cello) added to the pans available, also the ability to roll easier would be much appreciated ...other than that I LOVE this app

  • @uncensoredreality

    Thank you for your comment, glad to see that you like the app!

    Now, with respect to the rolling, like the introduction screen on itunes said, you have to hold the snare drum icon down and simultaneously tap the note/chord twice to experience the rolling effect. This was done specifically so that when you hold the snare icon down, you are able to play melodies with both single notes and rolled notes, by either pressing the note once for single and twice for a rolled effect.

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  • viva la vida de coldplay :D

  • Heard about this yesterday on entertainment news. interesting.

  • Viva La vida ? 

  • bravi

    

  • my two favorite things! coldplay and steel drums! i play double tenor

  • grande

    

  • Comme on!!! lemme play it with my drum sticks :p

  • Nice

  • where is Trinidad on this one...the rest of the world love it...Trinidad is getting left behind. We need to support this.

  • That's so cool for those of you do not know what song it is, its viva la vida

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