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jamesash | 2 years ago

A childhood friend of mine invented the Lumitone, a microtonal keyboard with colored backlit hexagonal keys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfNIxTiApig

About 10 years ago I visited him in his studio where he had all mocked up in paper and cardboard, putting all the pieces together. Fun to see it finally out and in people's hands.

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Taikonerd|2 years ago

Isomorphic keyboards are so cool! I hope the Lumitone comes down in price and becomes more of a "regular instrument"... AFAIK it's just as suited for regular tonal music as microtonal.

kian|2 years ago

I've been dying to get my hands on one of these :) I think there's a pretty large and unexplored possibility space in using these MPE controllers for controlling things other music, as well...

otikik|2 years ago

/Lumitone/Lumatone/

It is a very fun-looking instrument. Isomorphic keyboards are an internet black hole to me.

What kind of velocity-sensitive input sensors do these things use? Definitely not regular computer keyboard ones.