Drown Radio – Me Geek Pretty One Day

I love this twist on the traditional keyboard. The interface is like a tweaked out Stylophone. The user has contact points on his finger. When these points make contact with the board, the sound is triggered. What’s interesting is that this device is multitouch, unlike the monophonic input on the Stylophone.
Since there are no buttons, I assume there is no velocity sensors (for volume control based on how hard a key was hit for instance), but this keyboard does have something else really cool… It appears that touching the same note at different points on it’s Y axis will generate different timbres.
At the top of the board is one long touch interface. Instead of having discreet notes, the user slides continuously from one note to another. These notes line up with the keys below, so if you slid from a low C to a mid C on the slide, you could drag your finger down the X axis to land on the middle C key.
What’s really amazing about the sliding board is that is also polyphonic. I’ve never seen any sort of ribbon control or touch pad that handled multiple notes like this before.
I don’t know more about this device, but MatrixSynth has more videos and info on their site.

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