In pursuit of Otama's tone (2017)

Tip: scroll to the bottom of the article and click play on the embedded video so you can listen to the song composed with the synthesized Otama while reading the article.

Also, for those wondering what the heck an Otama is, it's a toy music synthesizer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otamatone

(It's called an "Otamatone")

A youtuber I follow does an amazing job recreating video game songs by overdubbing otamatones together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q02ADmCKH7w

If you want to hear more of what this thing sounds like, "TheRealSullyG" on YouTube has produced some pretty great covers of songs using multi-tracked Otamatones: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk-PPUZtKgj-GuyVaXSrhVQ/vid...

Who else came here looking for Obama's tone, thinking they had turned Obama's inflection into a virtual instrument?

My eyes saw "Obama's Phone", and thought it might be a reminiscence about his Blackberry.

This article is extremely high in the (interestingness):(usefulness to me) ratio

Infinite, in fact!

Came for the 'what the hell is Otama's tone', stayed for the cool frequency analysis stuff. Unexpectedly cool!

Looks like a Japanese fidget-spinner-like thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hIHLEuUg8k

I read this as Obama's tone, lol.