Samsung Caxixi - g-sensor using beatbox

Clipp · #1 (**permalink**) 08-01-2009, 12:05 AM

From Samsung Caxixi website:

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Caxixi (pronounced ca-shi-shi) is an application written for Samsung Windows Mobile phones such as the Omnia. It plays the sounds of a variety of percussion instruments. The sounds are triggered by shaking the phone using a variety of gestures.

http://www.samsungcaxixi.com/

It only works on the Omnia for now. I don't own one, so let me know how it works!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBbr8qjN5p8

nitrous9200 · #2 (**permalink**) 08-01-2009, 01:32 AM

it's actually pretty neat though i imagine it would work better if you had more than one person to play different instruments. Finally a cool and unique app for the omnia!

Clipp · #3 (**permalink**) 08-01-2009, 01:40 AM

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Originally Posted by nitrous9200

it's actually pretty neat though i imagine it would work better if you had more than one person to play different instruments. Finally a cool and unique app for the omnia!

Is it responsive? In the video, it looks like he got all the programmed sounds to quickly play back to back without accidentally triggering the wrong ones.

**blazingwolf** · #4 (**permalink**) 08-01-2009, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Clipp

Is it responsive? In the video, it looks like he got all the programmed sounds to quickly play back to back without accidentally triggering the wrong ones.

Just played with this today. Very responsive and kinda fun. If your musically inclined then I would say get it. Musically inept like me, then get it anyways because it's fun.

**darren.wlsn1** · #5 (**permalink**) 08-01-2009, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by blazingwolf

Just played with this today. Very responsive and kinda fun. If your musically inclined then I would say get it. Musically inept like me, then get it anyways because it's fun.

so your input is get it? lol nice feedback.

**blazingwolf** · #6 (**permalink**) 08-01-2009, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by darren.wlsn1

so your input is get it? lol nice feedback.

Yeah. Not much of a review but I only just started playing with it. :P

I really think if you know what you are doing then the video would be easy to make. I'm just not that talented in this department.

ikediggety · #7 (**permalink**) 08-01-2009, 12:37 PM

meh. played with it a little this morning.

it tends to get confused between right and left - if you start moving the phone to the right too abruptly, it'll take that as a left trigger.

the programming function is useless because if your phone is running anything else (and if you run a custom rom, m2d or ms3, it is) caxixi doesn't have enough CPU to mix without buffer underruns.

unless i'm doing something wrong. anybody out there get the sequencer to work without terrible distortion? anybody find any latency or buffer settings?

**blazingwolf** · #8 (**permalink**) 08-01-2009, 02:00 PM

Things seem to work fine with 6.5 for me. Titanium and MS3 installed to the device.

ikediggety · #9 (**permalink**) 08-01-2009, 04:41 PM

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Originally Posted by blazingwolf

Things seem to work fine with 6.5 for me. Titanium and MS3 installed to the device.

are you using the sequencer at all, or just shaking/tapping it?

**blazingwolf** · #10 (**permalink**) 08-01-2009, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by ikediggety

are you using the sequencer at all, or just shaking/tapping it?

Are you talking about the area where you change the BPM and add different instruments to record them? Then, yes I have tried that. Sound from the recording has some distortion for some reason but other then that it works fine.