Keyboard for Techno music

Electronic musicians will have a new device to use: Tenori-on, in Japanese means 'sound in the palm of my hand ', this 8-inch square instrument allows techno musicians in the same Hypnotize the spans and chords by knocking and tapping your finger around the touch surface - just like with finger style.

The size of the buttons on the diodes emits light on the front and back of the instrument and will light up when you touch them, so you can visualize the tone while you are writing. . You can select a music program in a variety of ways, such as a bounce that will allow you to draw a wave pattern on the surface of the instrument to produce a series of notes with a pitch equal to the width of the wave. Other tunes will allow you to assign individual sounds to each key (hold down the key to create repeating ring sounds). You use the built-in slow keys and integrated LCD to transfer music, pause audio and adjust the tempo of music.

The recording grooves are also quite complex with 16 layers of wavelength. And if you're fed up with 253 built-in sounds (including 10 octaves, with multiple tones), you can add your own tunes by hooking up your MIDI keyboard or transforming audio samples from your microphones. Calculate your usage over the use of SD memory card. If your co-star also has a Tenori-on device, you can connect the devices together so that the concerts are synchronized.

Yamaha is testing Tenori equipment in the United States, currently priced at $ 1,200 at tenori-on.co.uk. If the device sells on this site, you can get it in the US next year.

The buttons are light-emitting diodes with a size of 16x16 arranged in panels
controls and display. (Photo: Yamaha Japan Corporation)

A hand-drawn motion on the surface of the keyboard changes
movement into sound. (Photo: Yamaha Japan Corporation)

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