LUMATONE Isomorphic Keyboard - "Opaline" by Benton Roark
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Benton Roark performs his composition "Opaline," composed entirely on the Lumatone Isomorphic Keyboard. To get your own Lumatone during our upcoming limited production run, sign up at WWW.LUMATONE.IO and receive early-bird discounts of up to 25% when we launch in March!
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Performed, recorded, and filmed live at Postwar Studios in Toronto, Canada. Visit www.postwar.ca.
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This instrument looks amazing!! I wish there were more videos on how the notes work though cos I’m completely lost lol but I like it!
All this Lumatone content is giving me Bach vibes
That was lovely
I hope to one day be able to get one of these, I just wish I had the money to get one
I'm very interested in investing in one and I've also subscribed to the newsletter earlier to stay up to date.
I do have some questions regarding the product, if that's ok! And maybe others find the answers interesting too.
* It's velocity sensitive; to what degree? How many points?
* Is there a mod and pitch-wheel type functionality like regular midi-controllers?
* It's based on midi, so can I assume it can link to stuff like kontakt, serum and other big synths? Then, how would the link up work? If a preset I have on the lumatone is mapped in a certain way, how would it correspond to the keys on - let's say - kontakt?
* How do you program a preset? How do you map colors? And/or... is there a place online where I can learn more about that specifically?
* Do the 10 preset buttons on the lumatone have other functionalities as well?
Cheers! Loving what I'm seeing!
>It's velocity sensitive; to what degree? How many points?
Each key is actually a fully continuous controller, meaning that its location is tracked across its entire travel distance. That lets you do velocity sensitivity, but also tons more.
>Is there a mod and pitch-wheel type functionality like regular midi-controllers?
Since each key is a fully continuous controller, you can get most of that functionality by mapping individual keys midi CC messages. (So you could have the left-most column of keys mapped to mod, pitch bend, and whatever you want like filter sweeps, high pass, low pass, etc.) It's not a perfect situation since the keys reset to their fully upright position (which might not be desirable for mod wheel functionality, and makes it so that you'd need two keys if you want to pitch bend both up and down), but it's pretty powerful for what it is.
>It's based on midi, so can I assume it can link to stuff like kontakt, serum and other big synths? Then, how would the link up work? If a preset I have on the lumatone is mapped in a certain way, how would it correspond to the keys on - let's say - kontakt?
> How do you program a preset? How do you map colors? And/or... is there a place online where I can learn more about that specifically?
Each key on the Lumatone can be mapped to any midi note on any midi channel. My understanding is that it's a "class compliant" device, and so should require zero set up for standard western tuning. Microtuning is done in your synth, and you can change the mapping of the keys on the lumatone to meet whatever needs your synth has. Recently at NAMM (and probably for the videos here on UA-cam?), the keyboard was hooked up to Kontakt, and the tuning was done with Kontakt's scripting language.
I don't know too much about how they used the script, but I do know that the mapping for the keyboard was just set up linearly, so that in, say, 19-edo, you mapped notes so that C-C#-Db-D-D#-Eb etc would just be 1-2-3-4-5 in midi values, and notes with the same pitch would be mapped to the same midi note. If needed, you could also map each key on the lumatone to its own unique midi note, and then individually tune each one however you want in your synth.
Presets are generated using an open source program written by Hans Straub:
github.com/hsstraub/TerpstraSysEx.2014
There's plenty of room for quality of life improvements and more functionality, but it already does a great job.
>Do the 10 preset buttons on the lumatone have other functionalities as well?
At the moment, they just let you change between 10 presets. I don't know if there are plans to give them more functions, but it should be possible on a hardware level.
Hi there @benyamind! Thanks for your interest. Yes, it's velocity sensitive, and the velocity curve is editable in our mapping software. There's XXX points. As for mod and pitch -- EVERY single key can be set to be a continuous controller! So you could, for instance, map the top left key to be a pitch bend, the top right to be a filter sweep, and so on.
As for how to program a preset - you use our software. Mapping midi notes and colours to each key is intuitive and we also have bulk / sequential tools to make it easier as well. The 10 preset buttons are dedicated (for now) but we can upgrade functionality in software over time and would love to hear other ideas for how to use them!
And finally, yes, it's based on midi so it connects to anything that receives midi information. We love using it with Kontakt in particular because you can script things like "notes per octave." But really, you can sequence it in a traditional way that would control anything from an analog synth to a virtual instrument, OR you can get super creative and map certain blocks of keys to one instrument, and other keys to another, etc. Possibilities truly endless.
We're working to build in depth tutorials, as well as workflow ideas by the time we launch this spring, but I hope this gives you a little preview and answers some questions!
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Thank you for the info! Both responses are very helpful and give more insight into the instrument. Looking forward to learning more!
@@benyamind I was lucky enough to be working at NAMM two weeks ago where this was just first publicly exhibited. Coming into it I was skeptical about the feel of the keys, and to my pleasure it completely exceeded my expectations. I love the work that was put into making them feel natural and comfortable, both the key material and key actions themselves. Just pressing the keys alone is enough to tell you that a lot of care went into designing it. I'm not sure I could be even more eager to own one :D
@@JLMoriart I'd just like to say thanks for linking to TerpstraSysEx.2014 -- it took a small bit of fiddling around, figuring out how JUCE works, etc., but I managed to get it building and running seemingly-fine on Linux. Here's a victory screenshot:
i.imgur.com/XPTvyar.png
It's really nice to know ahead of time that I can do this, even though I'll probably end up setting up a hackintosh as a music machine soon enough. Also, the fact that it's open source means that if I ever get inspired to build my own version, I can figure out how to generate all the SysEx commands I'll need :D
It'll be interesting to figure out how to get the microtonal stuff set up -- might need to use a much stranger mapping. One of the things I'm most looking forward to setting up and trying is an isomorphic layout with just intonation perfect fifths on one axis and just intonation major thirds on another. Of course, that means perfect octaves don't exist, which complicates things a little.
Is it lacking in tonal dynamics? How do you set that?
Like if you press it harder or softer will it express the sound accordingly yet?
Also why are the keys soo small? Will you ever make one with bigger keys?
Laslty can I shut the lights off if I want to?
Lumatone helps you to escape from a 12Tone-Cage... I compose & Programm Music only Abstract(No Midi). How can i use polychromatics?
I’m guessing you need to know music theory really well to play this any good
While music theory is always helpful in understanding the relationship between notes in certain mappings on Lumatone, as well as in creating mappings... you'd be surprised how intuitive many of these layouts are. The layout used in the mapping in this video is based on the Bosanquet-Wilson layout and has been hailed as so intuitive that it's easier for those without much musical knowledge to understand the relationship between notes than on a traditional keyboard, because all chords and scales have the same shape no matter where they're played on the keyboard and in what key.
What a boring piece.
Have to start somewhere . . . .