This musical instrument is basically a keyboard that can display one, two or three octives at one time. Then you can quickly change octive using the up/down on your "D' pad. When set for one octive, the volume of the note changes depending on where you hit the key (top, middle, bottom). Also you can do a "slide" from one note up to another! I am quite impressed. Only improvement would be to save you last settings when you exit.

i second that thumbs up. very fun little app. not quite as fun as a real theremin, but quite a bit more mass- and energy-efficient. the lower octaves (4 or 5, i think) remind me of an old black-and-white cartoon. i wonder if they used theremins for those old soundtracks....

I would love to create an orchestra out of the instruments we have for our nokias

the theremin has impressed me greatly as has boxar and pyano.

Opps, doesn't run after the last update (not even when run from terminal).

Hi Den,

when you run theremin from terminal is there some output about the error why it is not run?

I tried this a couple of weeks ago and it is very cool. The way it freaked my cat out was also very funny ;-)

fnord

Newest version works fine for me (fresh install). Really cool app. One thing i would like to see is an unlock from the current octave. It is useful sometimes, but other times you want to jump octaves smoothly. I love how there is really no lag on this app, that is what sets it apart from the others. So smooth...

I added a checkbox to options menu, now it is possible to turn the octave locking off.
Changes are already commited to SVN and will be available in next release which is 1.3

Would it be possible to add a 'tutor' mode. There are the examples of how to play some songs on the homepage, which is great. But it would be really cool to have the keys change colour in tutor mode so you know which key to hit. Similar to keyboards/synthesizers that have lit up keys.