# Gamelan Gender lite

> Gamelan Gender lite (iPhone/iPad app by Otmar Kramis.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gamelan-gender-lite/id965588044 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Otmar Kramis](https://appshunter.io/developer/806784046)
- Category: Music, Music, Education
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 12.0 · 17 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2015-02-19
- Data updated: 2026-05-17
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gamelan-gender-lite/id965588044/reviews.md

## What is Gamelan Gender lite?

World’s first tunable iOS implementation of Balinese Gender Wayang!

This is the free version of Gender for iOS. It's limitation is: can't save changes, fewer included songs, no support for Inter-App Audio/Audiobus.

Gender Wayang is a 10-key metallophone, coming in pairs, most be doubled from an other pair one octave higher, tuned in Slendro scale. As Gender Wayang is played with two panggul (mallets) - other than the Gangsa in Gong Kebyar - two player together play the melody (left hand) and the interlocking parts kotekan (right hand) as a complete „mini“ Gamelan.

•MIDI file player
•Animated keys for „traditional" learning
•Sound bank sampled from real instruments
•Keys assignable to midi notes (adjust to your MIDI file)
•Tune it to your real instruments
•Mathematical tuning system, only 5 keys have to be defined
•Calculated tuning can be overwritten, and each of the 40 keys frequency can be defined
•Loop parts for practicing
•Set tempo changes,  to for example accelerate each repetition...
•Change tuning to pelog scale and use it for Gong Kebyar practicing as well, create your own 10 key tunings....
•MIDI input (Core MIDI, physical and virtual)
•Two touch play modes: gamelan style (strike and damp) and piano style (touch and release)


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.2.8 — 2025-06-01

• support for latest devices/screen sizes

### 1.2.7 — 2023-11-06

• adjustments for iPhone 15 screens

### 1.2.6 — 2022-11-16

• some layout corrections.

### 1.2.5 — 2020-10-26

• fixed dark mode info text
• added layouts for iPhone 12, 12 pro max

### 1.2.4 — 2020-09-22

• Fixed iPhone 6/7/8 plus layouts
• Added variants for key naming: 
  setting Keys --> "naming", 
  - 0 for l1...l5 h1...h5, 
  - 1 for 2 3 5 6 1 2 3 5 6 Ī, 
  - 2 for O E U A I o e u a i

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## More apps by Otmar Kramis

- [Gamelan Gender](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/gamelan-gender/id806784043)

All apps by Otmar Kramis: https://appshunter.io/developer/806784046

## Related topics

[otmar kramis](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/otmar-kramis)

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