Licensed Musical Instrument Products (First Act)
First Act has licensing agreements with Disney and Nickelodeon in order to make instruments based on many of their franchises: Toy Story, Cars, iCarly, Phineas & Ferb, Disney Princess and others.
Development of the licensed electronic instruments at First Act involved:
- utilization of existing electronics for musical instruments, typically based on sound chips from Sonix, Nuvoton, and other similar Asian chip suppliers
- adapting the play pattern for the controls to the specific design
- recording and/or editing sounds for the product - many of the sounds would be sound files released directly fromDisney or Niclkelodeon
- Evaluating prototypes and production samples from the Asian manufacturers
- Monitoring the production line in Asia