Tenori-On

Another hobby of mine is music and here's an interesting new product from Yamaha Japan that will be available soon in the US: Tenori-On.


Being billed as a composition and performance device, it is a 256 voice synthesizer with a 16x16 array of LED buttons used to compose and alter a live performance. A variety of layers and modes change the LED functions, from composing notes like a piano scroll to painting musical textures by sweeping a finger across the buttons. The inventor, Toshio Iwai, also developed the music game Electroplankton for the Nintendo DS.

US west coast debut event in San Francisco on the 18th of April. Want? I do!