Tag: music

Young Band RPG “Rock Heroes!” Released For iPhone

Q Entertainment [J] has released an iOS version of the social game “Band Heroes!” now offered for Mobage. [J] “Band Heroes!” is a young rock band RPG that was until now offered for Mobage for Android.  You form a band with friends, make songs by connecting phrases, rev up your fans at concerts, and aim… Continue reading Young Band RPG “Rock Heroes!” Released For iPhone

Dole Japan Offers Special Bananas Listened AKB48 For Ripening At Tokyo Marathon 2012

2012 version of annual Tokyo Marathon will be held on February 26, with 36,000 runners who luckily win the lottery from 283,988 applicants. At the marathon, one of the official supplier Dole Japan is going to provide 96,000 “lucky” bananas, named “Goku Sen”(Extremely Selected) [J], which will be chosen from its over 100 kind of… Continue reading Dole Japan Offers Special Bananas Listened AKB48 For Ripening At Tokyo Marathon 2012

Gakufu Camera: Camera Over Music Score Plays Sound

Gakufu Camera [J] (gakufu = music score) is an iPhone app released by music instrument vendor Kawai. The camera application lets you scan music score by camera, recognize musical notes in real-time, play the recognized notes. (“the world’s first real-time music score recognition”, as they claim. probably on smartphone I guess.) The app can recognize… Continue reading Gakufu Camera: Camera Over Music Score Plays Sound

World Sound Mix – Feel The World By Sound/Noise

The World Sound Mix By 43d is “a web based sound mixing engine that generates a location based Ambient sound from varied sounds from all over the world” (from their website). The sounds are colored by categories – green for nature, blue for city/town, yellow for voice/song and red for instrument. Sounds from different part… Continue reading World Sound Mix – Feel The World By Sound/Noise

Japanese Love Song In The Motif Of MS Excel, And Anti-Virus

“My Excel Story – watashi no kokoro no naka no kansuu(functions in my mind)” “Functions in my mind filters memories with you.” “I can find tiny memories even between 1 and 0, you taught me to take away ROUNDDOWN” “You can count by AVERAGE. ISTEXT, feel words.” c/w “Ai no Uirusu Taisaku”(Love Anti-Virus) Released November… Continue reading Japanese Love Song In The Motif Of MS Excel, And Anti-Virus

Computer-Synthesized Vocal Album Tops The Japanese Chart First In History

Probably first in the world history? Oricon(Japanese Billboard)’s [J] CD album chart in 5th week of May 2010 reported that the week’s No.1 was “EXIT TUNES PRESENTS Vocalogenesis feat. Hatsune Miku” [J, Amazon Japan], which is a compilation album by Vocaloids, a series brand for several voice synthesis software packages based on Yamaha’s technology published… Continue reading Computer-Synthesized Vocal Album Tops The Japanese Chart First In History

Less Talk, More Music. Automatic Aircheck Radio Sanyo Xacti Sound Recorder

Sanyo’s new portable FM/AM radio recorder ICR-XRS120MF [J] lets you record music. By detecting different frequency between DJ talk and songs, you may just collect music from radio wave into few giga-bytes SD card. The weight of the radio is 66g, which is the world lightest as an IC recorder with AM/FM tuner. Unfortunately, DJ… Continue reading Less Talk, More Music. Automatic Aircheck Radio Sanyo Xacti Sound Recorder

Japan Persists “Packaged” Music, This Time On Memory Card

Avex Marketing, a Japanese music company in Avex Group, released world’s first music/video package sold on microSD memory card. “micro REBOOT Ichi(one)” by a group THE REBOOT is also on sale on their website [J] for 2,500 yen (about 25USD). It says that the music, video and lyrics PDF in the microSD can be viewed… Continue reading Japan Persists “Packaged” Music, This Time On Memory Card

Japanese Government Promotes Puppet Security Idol “Securina”

Securina is an another virtual idol unit by puppets newly appeared into Japanese otaku scene, as a part of “Check PC” campaign backed by METI, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan. Shina, from Tokyo, who is unfussy and easygoing, likes Parfait. and Sena from Osaka, assertive and boyish, likes drive. The “Check PC”… Continue reading Japanese Government Promotes Puppet Security Idol “Securina”