KVR Audio

Reverse Engineer · Post by **Reverse Engineer** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:26 pm

http://technabob.com/blog/2007/08/09/ch ... f-88-keys/

nuffink · Post by **nuffink** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:28 pm

That simplifies things nicely

Reverse Engineer · Post by **Reverse Engineer** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:38 pm

nuffink wrote:
That simplifies things nicely

It looks insane, yet probably has logic about it that, when understood, makes more sense then the current way things are. I could also be talking out my arse.

I'd love to try one of these things either way.

Lagrange · Post by **Lagrange** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:05 pm

Dayum! Thats a headache waiting to happen but thanks anyway..

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Liquidclear · Post by **Liquidclear** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:09 pm

It's looks like there will finally be a commercial 'Janko'-style keyboard out in '08...

http://www.daskin.com/

Reverse Engineer · Post by **Reverse Engineer** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:09 pm

I've just came across this crazy assed thing too.

ebay link

Breakaway Vocalizer 1000 info

I want both

How the heck could/did they make these sort of crazy things years ago, but nowadays pump out the same old trite synths again and again...yeah, ok, they intergrated a computer and a keyboard into one, super duper, but can i sing into the thing and sound like a drunk band? can i hell!!!

james0tucson · Post by **james0tucson** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:23 pm

Reverse Engineer wrote:
nuffink wrote:
That simplifies things nicely
It looks insane, yet probably has logic about it that, when understood, makes more sense then the current way things are. I could also be talking out my arse. I'd love to try one of these things either way.

At first glance, I was hoping it was a controller based on chromatic accordion buttons. I'd like that, and I'd also like an autoharp controller. But I'm a weird folkie in a techno world full of normal people. Let me out.

Reverse Engineer · Post by **Reverse Engineer** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:33 pm

james0tucson wrote:
Reverse Engineer wrote:
nuffink wrote:
That simplifies things nicely
It looks insane, yet probably has logic about it that, when understood, makes more sense then the current way things are. I could also be talking out my arse. I'd love to try one of these things either way.
At first glance, I was hoping it was a controller based on chromatic accordion buttons. I'd like that, and I'd also like an autoharp controller. But I'm a weird folkie in a techno world full of normal people. Let me out.

Judging by some of the things i've been coming across lately, it's probably out there somewhere.

http://www.themusicpole.com/
http://www.sonalog.com/
http://www.starrlabs.com/
http://www.suzukimusic.co.uk/omnichord/ ... ichord.htm
http://www.suzukimusic.co.uk/qchord/qchord.htm (an updated version of the above)

and the list goes on and on.

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:45 pm

GaryG · Post by **GaryG** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:03 am

As a guitarist who's never really got to grips with a standard keyboard I see the logic in this approach.

Maybe now we're not shackled by mechanics to a certain layout, more intuitive/experimental schemes can be implemented. Maybe a mini/simplified version of this layout would work well on a laptops keyboard, allowing more range and easier playing than current keyboard-to-midi apps.

krushing · Post by **krushing** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:11 am

Hasn't the chromatic keyboard been around for about 200 years by now?

The "Chordspace" Keyboard.