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deeper into Tenori-On
Posted June 7th 2006 under AudioVisual, Instruments
For anyone who doesn’t know what Tenori-On from Toshio Iwai is, first read about it on wmmna (then on CDM, Musicthing and Siggraph).
Then watch this video & see some photos. This is a great physical soundtoy and I am pleased that Yamaha got on board with this one.
Following the Nime conference, more details have emerged about this instrument…
Performances, layer states, modes and functions (volume, pan etc) can be saved to be reused and replayed. This is likely to be an SD memory card.
Interface:
The Instrument contains acceleration sensors. The software can calculate direction of finger movement.
It has two built in speakers, a clear button, 12 function buttons on the outside. Small LCD display. Volume control and headphone output. The 16×16 LED matrix on the rear side acts a display only (not input).
Multi-user:
Tenori-On uses the Midi protocol and can communicate with other Tenori-On, synchronizing them. Remote mode allows you to control Tenori-On from a PC or another Midi instrument.
Loop modes:
x6 modes = Score, Random Loop, Real Time Record, Bounce, Push, Solo.
To find out more, read the paper.
Comments
(June 8th 2006)
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(June 9th 2006)
[…] deeper into Tenori-On Pixelsumo post on Tenori-On (sound on your palm), a personal digital instrument for playing sound and ambient light patterns which I had the good fortune to play with at Ars Electronica 2005. (tags: music information_visualization audio) […]
(June 12th 2006)
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(July 8th 2006)
[…] (Speaking of whom…. Electroplankton is officially launched in Europe today – erm, yesterday. Almost makes me want to get a DS out of curiosity. Fortunately perhaps I’m skint. Pixelsumo also has interesting detail on the apparently-real-hardware-controller Tenori-On.) […]