Interesting… ‘perspective.’ How about considering some others? Some people have neither the time nor inclination, and may be focused on other types of creation and other instruments. Some people might find a different way of working to inspire different types of results. People who have played piano and/or have a foundation in theory tend to follow the same rules and often get stuck in familiar patterns. This is just another type of technology-a variant. What if Apple decided people should just stick with texting on a numerical keypad. Or that no one needed an internet browser on a phone. What if DAW makers said “people will do anything to avoid recording to tape.” I’ll bet that if you examined your own life and workflows, you’ll find someone could make the same comment as yours about the things you now take for granted.
Easy to be dismissive. Tons of uses for this. People who have disabilities, memory problems ect. And I would imagine that it grips the s**t of gatekeepers.... 😁
@@andrewstanworth529this is a nice way to get complex tonality in a compact setup, but like, how are you going to use this effectively without a good grounding in music theory? You might as well use one of those “chord packs”
The “instrument you play” is a synth. The keyboard is simply a user interface for triggering notes. The piano keyboard is a powerful interface but it’s not the only one. Accordions have long used button grids for both notes and chords. Alternative “isometric” keyboards like the Tonnetz have been around for, in some cases, centuries; they’re no less powerful than the piano layout and have benefits such as moveable shapes for chords (like on guitar.)
An important detail is that this is a midi controller. Meaning it just sends note commands to a DAW. Cool Idea, but the sounds are from the DAW and not the controller. An important detail that I think many people getting into making music will not grasp!
Was the midi controller able to read the sound pack loaded for that particular track like how Komplete keyboards can read and load sounds from the DAW and display it on the LCD?
The way the device works and how it's laid out can potentially carry into the way you approach writing without the device, too. I like how it puts the user into a much different way of thinking and creating versus one's usual approach to composing.
@@hapaulino well, this is more like dieter rams' inspired designs. if you want to know more search his name on google or visit this website drams.framer.website/ great website to learn more and just to explore great designs as well
Of all the chord helping tools I've seen so far, this looks like the simplest, slick'est, most flexible, powerful and well thought out one so far. Nice :)
@@howardjones543 yes,it's very easy Google child plays piano, if s child can use their hands why can't you? Do you even have a real excuse for your laziness? Are you missing both hands? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is cool! The strum mode makes this unique and its own instrument. This isn’t a replacement for a piano it’s just a completely different thing. There’s no way to mimic the strum mode of this on a piano
As a righty guitar player synth nerd, I wish there was a way to use this completely flipped. I really love that strumming feature, would just prefer my left hand for that. You could turn it upside down, but then the display would be upside down. This is very cool though, none the less. Omnichord and OP1 lovechild.
They’re not a major company with a supply chain to make economies of scale happen. They’re an indie gear producer making their first product, so their goal is pretty obviously just being able to make it at all, not making a mass market product
They probably had to use at least some custom parts to achieve the look. Operating on a small scale can be pretty expensive if you're not using off the shelf products.
Amazing how lazy people are to not bother to learn, I’ve got a chord memory function on my workstation and it actually made me learn and appreciate how to play chords instead of using any old thing
Looks so nice. Is July still on as a shipping date? Can't wait to mess with it... Also wanted to know how the touchscreen functions can be utilised, it it possible to assign CC values?
@@AGI-Bingo People need to stop about the inflation thing, sure there is inflation, but the parts for this keyboard can be bought cheaply . You could run this entire thing from a Raspberr Pi Pico 2040 and they cost $5, rotary encoder $5, the touchscreen $10, PCB $10, rubber membrane for the keys $10, case $10, oh yeah and a cardboard to ship it in, $10, and someone has to solder this thing, and assemble, lets say 1 hour $20.. so we are up to $80. But this is for me, if I just buy one of each... If you have a company that buy 1000 units instead, they will get lower prices. But if there is a market that wants to pay $400 for it, sure go ahead. Nothing wrong.. but I do not think Inflation is the main thing here.
the device is very well made and designed, but it's hilarious how awful he is at jamming on his own machine... the 'ok now let's jam' portion of the video was underwhelming as hell
It looks nice but it doesn’t look intuitive to me and if I have basic piano skills it will be like walking with a crouch when you’re not disabled, if I don’t know piano I would have to learn it eventually anyway when I outgrow that little thing. If it’s battery powered, has a speaker,ability to record and below $150 then it will make sense as a chord progression machine. Now I’m using Navichord app on my phone.
What if the keys were laid out side by side a semi tone apart, except for b and c, and e and f? That would be neat all right. And you could have the natural notes a different size to that of the sharps, oh boy that would be swell.
hmmh... looks cool but does it really help with anything? remembering the triangles ... you could as well just play the chord on the keyboard ... and it'd sound as novice as this demo. Where is the advantage?
Does it have a sequencer/looper? That would make it a great practice tool. Also, why a hardware implementation? IMHO, as an iOS app, this thing would be a no-brainer.
if there was a $200 version i would have been sold immediately, its like a modern day omnichord, $500 is way out of my price range for a midi controller.
great , but I can see myself using this upside down, also it would be nice to access the screen modes all at once.... make a bigger pro version please as this is cool like the suzuki omnichord but much better...... also a mode so we can chain them together or something, I'd use it right now maybe in pairs.... the indiegogo says new ways of playing chords, hmmm nope don't see anything new yet, you have a cool product no need for hype
Had been testing lots of chords players, none of those sounded as good as this demo. Placed the order as soon as I saw this demo, looking forward to more customisable features. Too bad the basic version does not ship to the UK, went for the one with the dangle, fingers crossed it's VAT included:)
Very cool device. Very very helpful. Congrats ! The first idea that I would like to add there is to add the ability to control chords inside the patch by setting up oscillators. that is, there is 1 oscillator, for example, this is the note C, the second is the note E, etc. So this could be used in polyphonic synthesizers. And also, within the chord, make connections to other parameters. that is, when playing notes, some parameters can also change not only in tonality but also in content. Sorry for the flood. Thnx!
This is cool and all but why would anyone pay $400+ for this when they could learn all about musical keys, chords, and basic music theory in a day or two for free? And, if someone already knows all that sorta stuff then why would they buy this? If they don't have a keyboard/midi input device they could get a remarkably good midi keyboard for under $400. Also, not to mention the fact that many DAWs have chord features that basically do the same exact thing, but its built in and can be used with any midi device. I just dont really see any world where this is a practical instrument.
Pretty sure it’s not velocity sensitive. They never mentioned that the buttons have any sort of pressure sensitivity (which would have been awesome, think EP-133 KO II).
Really like the idea of this, but the only thing putting me off is that it doesnt appear to do inversions. When I write a chord progression I like to use inversions to make the progressions flow better than jumping around too much. Is there a way to do this here?
Fr, stacking thirds just isn't that interesting in most cases, and if it can't do inversions and other voicings I don't really see the value of this product. Reminds me of that cord Midi pack from a couple years ago.
this is one of the most useless things i've seen after that glorified digital tape machine that TE released what it's good for: 1. instagram photos 2. the end
Polarizing to be sure. I think its dope. Throw it in the bag with the laptop and get the most out of all those VSTs I bought. A lot of people tend to forget that we're in this game cause we aint exactly broke anyways.
people will do anything to avoid learning to play chords
Ong
I thought the same! It seems easier just to learn the chords
Interesting… ‘perspective.’ How about considering some others? Some people have neither the time nor inclination, and may be focused on other types of creation and other instruments. Some people might find a different way of working to inspire different types of results. People who have played piano and/or have a foundation in theory tend to follow the same rules and often get stuck in familiar patterns. This is just another type of technology-a variant. What if Apple decided people should just stick with texting on a numerical keypad. Or that no one needed an internet browser on a phone. What if DAW makers said “people will do anything to avoid recording to tape.” I’ll bet that if you examined your own life and workflows, you’ll find someone could make the same comment as yours about the things you now take for granted.
@CentaurusRelax314 no timr nor inclination? Go do something else. Im sure youll find fun or duty in there.
There’s more amazing musicians that won’t take time to learn how to song write.
Electronic musicians will spend weeks learning an esoteric interface just to avoid actually learning the instrument they supposedly play
Easy to be dismissive. Tons of uses for this. People who have disabilities, memory problems ect. And I would imagine that it grips the s**t of gatekeepers.... 😁
@@andrewstanworth529this is a nice way to get complex tonality in a compact setup, but like, how are you going to use this effectively without a good grounding in music theory?
You might as well use one of those “chord packs”
Who hurt you
The “instrument you play” is a synth. The keyboard is simply a user interface for triggering notes. The piano keyboard is a powerful interface but it’s not the only one. Accordions have long used button grids for both notes and chords. Alternative “isometric” keyboards like the Tonnetz have been around for, in some cases, centuries; they’re no less powerful than the piano layout and have benefits such as moveable shapes for chords (like on guitar.)
Gatekeep much?
An important detail is that this is a midi controller. Meaning it just sends note commands to a DAW. Cool Idea, but the sounds are from the DAW and not the controller. An important detail that I think many people getting into making music will not grasp!
Was the midi controller able to read the sound pack loaded for that particular track like how Komplete keyboards can read and load sounds from the DAW and display it on the LCD?
The way the device works and how it's laid out can potentially carry into the way you approach writing without the device, too. I like how it puts the user into a much different way of thinking and creating versus one's usual approach to composing.
True
Toy
The design is pure goodness, reminds a little of TE or the old Braun stuff.
Ngl I opened the video cause it felt like something designed by Teenage Engineering.
Don't see any mention on their website tho...
@@hapaulino well, this is more like dieter rams' inspired designs. if you want to know more search his name on google or visit this website drams.framer.website/ great website to learn more and just to explore great designs as well
its bauhaus
I feel like the name AKT-0.1 is likely a TE reference.
it's boring and repetitive I wish for a keyboard that looks like a guitar pedal instead of this cheap industrial design stuff.
Of all the chord helping tools I've seen so far, this looks like the simplest, slick'est, most flexible, powerful and well thought out one so far. Nice :)
Or you could buy a Roland J6 and Simpler 2 for half the price
@@notmyrealname9059 but it doesn't look like a hipster "sound design" device... ):
Or learn a chord progression? Children do it easily
@@HAHb-zc2dp do they strum chords on a piano keyboard easily too?
@@howardjones543 yes,it's very easy Google child plays piano, if s child can use their hands why can't you? Do you even have a real excuse for your laziness? Are you missing both hands? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is cool! The strum mode makes this unique and its own instrument. This isn’t a replacement for a piano it’s just a completely different thing. There’s no way to mimic the strum mode of this on a piano
Not unique. Chordbot does that as well.
@@millenniummastering and omnichord
As a righty guitar player synth nerd, I wish there was a way to use this completely flipped. I really love that strumming feature, would just prefer my left hand for that. You could turn it upside down, but then the display would be upside down. This is very cool though, none the less. Omnichord and OP1 lovechild.
If you go back to the original kickstarter listing, they say you can flip the unit and it will play correctly.
Well, I‘m a lefty. I think it’s perfect….😂
Wow. The ultimate noob trap. At least you put in more effort than unison.
Fancy omnichord/autoharp!
I feel like this could be way more than a chord machine…
electronic musicians will do everything but learn music theory
Yeah, you right. Best chord machine is still a simple piano
Hell yeah! Can't wait to get mine and do a v2 of my "Modular Chord Machine" video :D
wow accordion mode？
it's really sad how expensive this is, you could have easily reached a much much bigger audience if this was like half the price
Folks should pick up a Roland Aria J-6 if they wanna have chord fun. It doesn't quite compare to this at all but quite a value
They’re not a major company with a supply chain to make economies of scale happen. They’re an indie gear producer making their first product, so their goal is pretty obviously just being able to make it at all, not making a mass market product
They probably had to use at least some custom parts to achieve the look. Operating on a small scale can be pretty expensive if you're not using off the shelf products.
Amazing how lazy people are to not bother to learn, I’ve got a chord memory function on my workstation and it actually made me learn and appreciate how to play chords instead of using any old thing
@@TayWoode we all really care what you do and what your priorities are
This is absolutly amazing!
Looks so nice. Is July still on as a shipping date? Can't wait to mess with it...
Also wanted to know how the touchscreen functions can be utilised, it it possible to assign CC values?
in what world is this worth 400
A world with high inflation...
@@AGI-Bingo People need to stop about the inflation thing, sure there is inflation, but the parts for this keyboard can be bought cheaply . You could run this entire thing from a Raspberr Pi Pico 2040 and they cost $5, rotary encoder $5, the touchscreen $10, PCB $10, rubber membrane for the keys $10, case $10, oh yeah and a cardboard to ship it in, $10, and someone has to solder this thing, and assemble, lets say 1 hour $20.. so we are up to $80. But this is for me, if I just buy one of each... If you have a company that buy 1000 units instead, they will get lower prices. But if there is a market that wants to pay $400 for it, sure go ahead. Nothing wrong.. but I do not think Inflation is the main thing here.
I'm not a musician, but I want this machine!
Yes, the design is perfect
This is exactly why you want this machine :)
@@karastudio 😆
absolutely love this concept! I wonder if this has application in music therapy
the device is very well made and designed, but it's hilarious how awful he is at jamming on his own machine... the 'ok now let's jam' portion of the video was underwhelming as hell
Make it 8000 dollars
it says "built in 3.5 TRRS" but I don't see any mention of what that is.
Is that midi out? Please tell me that's midi out.
Yes it is indeed a MIDI out. (thanks to our Kickstarter backers)
We will btw soon share some demos where we use it!
@@akutostudio Okay, NOW you have my attention!
@akutostudio thanks to your supporters? You mean you really planned to build a midi controller without an midi out originally 😳
@@distorsonI guess it had only MIDI over USB, which is indeed pretty normal. All KMI devices used to have only micro usb.
@@distorson many low-end MIDI controllers have no MIDI out, they just have a USB port. Pretty limiting for those of us with DAWless rigs.
It looks nice but it doesn’t look intuitive to me and if I have basic piano skills it will be like walking with a crouch when you’re not disabled, if I don’t know piano I would have to learn it eventually anyway when I outgrow that little thing.
If it’s battery powered, has a speaker,ability to record and below $150 then it will make sense as a chord progression machine.
Now I’m using Navichord app on my phone.
can't wait for flume to get his hands on this
the question is, will this do Dubstep?
Too bad this midi controller has such steap price.
NIce idea. Nice design.
I like the touch screen, seems pretty useful
What if the keys were laid out side by side a semi tone apart, except for b and c, and e and f? That would be neat all right. And you could have the natural notes a different size to that of the sharps, oh boy that would be swell.
hmmh... looks cool but does it really help with anything? remembering the triangles ... you could as well just play the chord on the keyboard ... and it'd sound as novice as this demo. Where is the advantage?
1:15 - 1:16 Jojo's Bizzare reference. This looks really cool
It's cheating, and I love it. Music playing should be easy
Please tell me this has Bluetooth and is battery powered.
Can't wait to see my one after years of waiting :D still looks great!
Dam... this will be better for me than the thy333 keyboard
That's neat! Good job.
can I have this please
Does it have a sequencer/looper? That would make it a great practice tool. Also, why a hardware implementation? IMHO, as an iOS app, this thing would be a no-brainer.
AWESOME!!!
ah, a digital accordeon
Dude, crazy machine.
I want it!
I am excited by this.
Are the "keys" velocity sensitive?
Bravo superbe projet! est-il possible de hold une ou plusieurs note? Pour l'arppegio, ça serait pas mal :)
A midi controller that has no midi connection 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
With adding samples,synth engine, midi, beats/drums, pattern editor and sequencer it would be nice groovebox
if there was a $200 version i would have been sold immediately, its like a modern day omnichord, $500 is way out of my price range for a midi controller.
2024 and finally were getting this
so cool. can it control regular synths via midi ?
I dig it but I kinda miss a build in sequencer... Love the design though.
SO nice to see small companies absolutely dog-walking the major brands! SO BAD ASS!!!
I'm interested what kind of unusual step sequencing you could do for drums etc. on that button set!
Since I'm a guitar player, I want to flip this device. I want to play chords with my left hand, and strum with my right hand. Will it work that way?
great , but I can see myself using this upside down, also it would be nice to access the screen modes all at once.... make a bigger pro version please as this is cool like the suzuki omnichord but much better...... also a mode so we can chain them together or something, I'd use it right now maybe in pairs.... the indiegogo says new ways of playing chords, hmmm nope don't see anything new yet, you have a cool product no need for hype
Like a modern Omnichord
I wonder if it is touch sensitive, or at least, if you can manipulate velocity while strumming via the touch screen in some way ?
Had been testing lots of chords players, none of those sounded as good as this demo. Placed the order as soon as I saw this demo, looking forward to more customisable features. Too bad the basic version does not ship to the UK, went for the one with the dangle, fingers crossed it's VAT included:)
Don’t basically all midi keyboards have chord mode now?
Amazing stuff!!
What is the name of the music genre at 4:09?
Very cool device. Very very helpful. Congrats !
The first idea that I would like to add there is to add the ability to control chords inside the patch by setting up oscillators. that is, there is 1 oscillator, for example, this is the note C, the second is the note E, etc. So this could be used in polyphonic synthesizers. And also, within the chord, make connections to other parameters. that is, when playing notes, some parameters can also change not only in tonality but also in content.
Sorry for the flood.
Thnx!
Take my money
So, from the video it appears that the screen and the keys can be assigned to play different insruments? Is this correct?
The description says it ships to the UK, but the checkout doesn't let me confirm with a UK address!
Great stuff! Can you record a longer theme from 4:09?
please just spend the three hours it takes to learn music theory and practice on a real keyboard. it will pay off huge for your music.
Nice video until you see the jam part, incredibly bad 😂. I can do the same with garage band and live since I know chords.
This is cool and all but why would anyone pay $400+ for this when they could learn all about musical keys, chords, and basic music theory in a day or two for free? And, if someone already knows all that sorta stuff then why would they buy this? If they don't have a keyboard/midi input device they could get a remarkably good midi keyboard for under $400. Also, not to mention the fact that many DAWs have chord features that basically do the same exact thing, but its built in and can be used with any midi device. I just dont really see any world where this is a practical instrument.
LOOKS FRESH AF 👅TIME TO COOK 🧑🍳
Velocity sensitive?
Pretty sure it’s not velocity sensitive. They never mentioned that the buttons have any sort of pressure sensitivity (which would have been awesome, think EP-133 KO II).
Clearly not
Really like the idea of this, but the only thing putting me off is that it doesnt appear to do inversions. When I write a chord progression I like to use inversions to make the progressions flow better than jumping around too much. Is there a way to do this here?
Fr, stacking thirds just isn't that interesting in most cases, and if it can't do inversions and other voicings I don't really see the value of this product. Reminds me of that cord Midi pack from a couple years ago.
It sounds kinda like French 79 (btw they produce great electronic music!)
Make a black version before people scream teenage engineering at you 👍
The last few bits sounded something like the II-L (check out Sputnik songs, great mastery)
Very clumsy presentation and device...., rather invest your money in learning chords!
this is one of the most useless things i've seen after that glorified digital tape machine that TE released
what it's good for:
1. instagram photos
2. the end
I dont understand anything but good - its amaizing! WTF!? How do you know what to press and when xD
It seems to me like a very advanced version of the SP pro program in terms of hardware. Tempted but not big thing.
Learning actual harmony will bring you what you want. This is just another distraction from what you really need to do
Hello. I think this chord machine is just outstanding. I would like to promote and sell it in my country
Polarizing to be sure. I think its dope. Throw it in the bag with the laptop and get the most out of all those VSTs I bought. A lot of people tend to forget that we're in this game cause we aint exactly broke anyways.
Chordbot walked so that this could run
I can see myself incorporating this into my workflow
There was a delay between the pressing of the button and the drums triggering
Hope you fix that
Looks like a cool machine, but why literally copy teenage engineering's entire aesthetic?
you can charge double the price that way
That just makes chord even more difficult 😂
I feel like this would be harder to use that a keyboard (my music theory knowledge is baby level)
Send one to Marti Fischer! -> ua-cam.com/users/MartiFischer
It has some similarity to the left hand on Piano Accordian! What a sick device!
2:26 - arpeggiator mode makes me wonna buy this straight away
these types of hardwares are such a hack
I HEARD JOJO
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE
is this purely a midi controller or does it work standalone also?
Does this device come with the needed skill set ?? beautiful design btw
Been a while since I saw something that appears genuinely quite inspiring. Bit like an electric autoharp.
very much teenage engineering? still looks good though
an excellent idea. this is different
Wow this thing is dope. I wish I knew what any of it meant.
Could this be used to play bass lines in key? if so I am getting one.
Not the Am-Amb5!
Is that a JoJo reference? :D