Seven45 Studios is the

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publishing & development division of

First Act First Act was a manufacturer of musical instruments and musical learning toys, that produced guitars, bass guitars, guitar and bass accessories, drum sets, percussion instruments, and amplifiers. Mark Izen founded the company in 1995; its onlin ...

. The company's titles fuse innovative and entertaining gameplay with the world of music. It was reported to be defunct in 2013.

History

Seven45 Studios was founded in 2007 as the video game division for First Act. Seven45 is perhaps best known as the developer and publisher of the critically panned 2010 title Power Gig: Rise of the SixString, a note-matching game that shipped with a unique guitar game controller that acts as both a standalone six-stringed guitar and game controller for this and other note-matching games. In late 2010 Seven45 Studios laid-off a large part of their staff "as a part of the natural cycle of game development and to focus on the development needs of its upcoming games projects". In 2011 Seven45 Studios changed focus to developing and producing

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apps.

Titles

Power Gig: Rise of the SixString, released in October 2010, is a

video game console A video game console is an electronic device that outputs a video signal or image to display a video game that can be played with a game controller. These may be home consoles, which are generally placed in a permanent location connected to ...

game for simulating gameplay with a real guitar. It was released simultaneously on

Xbox 360 The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft. As the successor to the original Xbox, it is the second console in the Xbox series. It competed with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generati ...

and

PlayStation 3 The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment, Sony Computer Entertainment. The successor to the PlayStation 2, it is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It was first released on Novemb ...

. The game was derided by critics due to its guitar not functioning perfectly and its padless drum kit having poor detection. BeatPop, released in April 2011, in an iOS app, designed to be played on the Apple iPhone and

iPod Touch The iPod Touch (stylized as iPod touch) is a discontinued line of iOS-based mobile devices designed and marketed by Apple Inc. with a touchscreen-controlled user interface. As with other iPod models, the iPod Touch can be used as a music pl ...

. The player pops bubbles (via tapping the touch screen) to the beat of a variety of interesting and catchy original soundtracks.

Soulo ''SoulO'' is Nick Lachey's debut album as a solo artist, after leaving the boy band 98 Degrees. The album was released in the US on November 11, 2003 on Universal Records. "Could You Love" was recorded earlier by Youngstown on their second al ...

, released in late 2011, is an iOS app for

Karaoke Karaoke (; ; , clipped compound of Japanese ''kara'' "empty" and ''ōkesutora'' "orchestra") is a type of interactive entertainment usually offered in clubs and bars, where people sing along to recorded music using a microphone. The music i ...

designed to be played on the Apple iPhone,

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, iPod Touch. The songs that can be downloaded directly to the app include a dynamic interactive display of the lyrics. These songs are all

cover versions In popular music, a cover version, cover song, remake, revival, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by a musician other than the original performer or composer of the song. Originally, it referred to a version of a song relea ...

of original songs. Soulo also enables the user to sing along with existing songs in the iTunes library. The original vocals from these songs are suppressed via vocal remover technologies. Additional voice enhancements such as

pitch correction Pitch correction is an electronic effects unit or audio software that changes the intonation (highness or lowness in pitch) of an audio signal so that all pitches will be notes from the equally tempered system (i.e., like the pitches on a piano ...

are also included in the game play. These technologies were supplied by the audio technology company

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.{{cite web, url=http://www.izotope.com/tech/izomobile/vocalfx.asp, title=Seven45 Studios' Soulo Karaoke with iZotope's Vocal Remover, Pitch Correction The app is designed to work with a line of microphones and other peripherals made by Seven45 Studios' sister company, First Act.

References

Companies based in Boston Privately held companies based in Massachusetts Video game companies of the United States