Sago Mini Sound Box
© 2013 Sago Mini
This updated edition of Sound Shaker (CTR March 2010) is designed for very young children (12 months and up) offering them a set of musical materials in a way that could only be presented on a motion sensing touch screen. Your child starts by choosing one of nine sets of sounds: chimes, car sounds, drums, barnyard sounds, a flute, a xylophone, dog, alarms, and piano. From this point, your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad screen becomes an open-ended busy box, where every tap becomes an object that can be tossed or rolled around the screen. You soon learn that the pitch varies from the left side of the screen to the right, so it is possible to make scales or chords, although there is a lot of trial-and-error involved in this process. In the previous version, pitch was associated with how long you held your finger on the screen; sadly this feature has been removed. If you touch a ball too long, it cracks open like an egg, and an animal pops out. These random elements diminish the child control than the last edition of Sound Shaker had, but very minimally. All in all the experience offers plenty to explore, in a way where motion can make music.
$2.99, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch
Teaches: causality, music
CTR Rating: 94%