I built a hardware chord + harmony performance instrument, looking for feedback

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I’ve been building a hardware MIDI performance instrument called Octant focused on real-time harmonic control rather than traditional note entry or pad/keyboard workflows.
It’s designed around harmony, where chords, voicings, and extensions can be performed, modified, and “played” live rather than programmed.

You choose a rote note + mode. You then choose chords from a 3x8 matrix, with real-time modifiers for chord quality, extensions, voicing, and strumming/arp behavior. A separate note grid provides scale/chord-aware melodic control, and chords + notes are split across MIDI channels for routing flexibility.

What I’m trying to figure out is whether this kind of harmonic-first workflow actually fits into real production or live setups outside of my own use case.

Here's a demo it playing chords with doubled 3rd voicing, borrowing chords, accessing the 6th extension: