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More than 20 years ago, the father of David and Gabriel Gatzsche, a pastor, already laid the theoretic ground for SoundPrism. "He tried to convince his sons' teachers of how much easier and lovelier it would be to learn the theory of music that way. However, he was totally ignored. His sons in contrast benefited from the method and aced all music theory tests", says start-up entrepreneur Sebastian Dittmann. In the scope of his dissertation, Gabriel Gatzsche developed the HarmonyPad (the SoundPrism predecessor) at the Fraunhofer Institue for Digital Media Technology IDMT in Illmenau. At a colloquium about music in computer games, he met Sebastian Dittmann. Mr. Dittmann, son of two opera singers and a musician himself, understood the vast possibilities at once. Together with the software engineers Felix Hirzel and Benjamin Hudarew, the musicians developed SoundPrism, which is now available as an App for iPhone and iPad.
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Using the iPhone, iPad or iPod as a musical instrument? An App called SoundPrism makes it now possible that also musical laymen are able to create nice sounds. And it is all perfectly easy by just moving your fingers on the touchscreen. A dynamic interface and very easy usability complement the solution.
SoundPrism is not a melody instrument such as a piano but a harmony instrument. The schematic arrangement of notes in SoundPrism enables the user to play up to three chords simultaneously and also to access the broad range of tone pitches. In addition, a scroll bar is provided to the user for changing to other color sequences representing a key. The clou: With SoundPrism, everybody - even if you never played an instrument before - is very quickly able to create own harmonies. This way, complex musical concepts may be used to vamp wonderful pieces of music - everybody intuitively creates new compositions with SoundPrism. A mere touch of the screen allows all SoundPrism users to immerse in their own world of music, to express themselves and to relax. The tonal and color composition, which is a very personal and in any case harmonic creation "of one's own hands", has a very relaxing effect.
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