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.
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
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? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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 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.
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.
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!
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:)
One thing I would like to see is a very small section of that screen real-estate to show an optional keyboard as a reference of what notes are playing. Maybe just right along the bottom edge of the screen. Toggle it to show or hide. Also it would be good to be able to store four rows of user chords to the buttons and be able to save those sets to a user library.
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?
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.
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.
I presumed it was designed to flip it's screen orientation on the right hand side, right? With flipped software, obviously... If not, that would be a huge oversight, imo. Would only need minor hardware tweaks to make this work.
@@tobytodelafontena Where you an engineer working in the phone industry? Because I was indeed working as head of R&D department of a renowned synths & gear German manufacturer.
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.
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.
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.)
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?
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.
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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...
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.
@@hapaulino Cause its not... he said reminds and if it is would be TE,it would simply says in the title.........
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
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? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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….😂
There are already many plugins and devices that do chords, but the strum feature is *very* unique!
Fancy omnichord/autoharp!
This is absolutly amazing!
I'm not a musician, but I want this machine!
Yes, the design is perfect
This is exactly why you want this machine :)
@@karastudio 😆
I like the touch screen, seems pretty useful
I feel like this could be way more than a chord machine…
2:26 - arpeggiator mode makes me wonna buy this straight away
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.
Hell yeah! Can't wait to get mine and do a v2 of my "Modular Chord Machine" video :D
can't wait for flume to get his hands on this
It has some similarity to the left hand on Piano Accordian! What a sick device!
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.
I'm picturing exactly this, with the natural notes colored white and the sharps colored black. Not sure it would catch on though.
absolutely love this concept! I wonder if this has application in music therapy
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!
I am excited by this.
I can see myself incorporating this into my workflow
All guitarists and pianists will be just using these in the future, fo sho
NIce idea. Nice design.
Wow, that's a wild device. Looks very fun.
Been a while since I saw something that appears genuinely quite inspiring. Bit like an electric autoharp.
an excellent idea. this is different
Dude, crazy machine.
I want it!
Can't wait to see my one after years of waiting :D still looks great!
super cool
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:)
One thing I would like to see is a very small section of that screen real-estate to show an optional keyboard as a reference of what notes are playing. Maybe just right along the bottom edge of the screen. Toggle it to show or hide. Also it would be good to be able to store four rows of user chords to the buttons and be able to save those sets to a user library.
2024 and finally were getting this
With adding samples,synth engine, midi, beats/drums, pattern editor and sequencer it would be nice groovebox
Intriguing instrument, and the sound is top notch!
SO nice to see small companies absolutely dog-walking the major brands! SO BAD ASS!!!
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?
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.
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.
Wow this thing is dope. I wish I knew what any of it meant.
to each their own
Dam... this will be better for me than the thy333 keyboard
That's neat! Good job.
I can play piano and keyboards just fine but this like for the strum feature & the appegiator 🖖🏼👌🏼
FINALLY SOMEONE MADE IT!!!!!!
wow accordion mode？
1:15 - 1:16 Jojo's Bizzare reference. This looks really cool
This must be the fastest I've pledged to anything.
whoa cool! just when I was telling myself - I don't need anything anymore
I'm interested what kind of unusual step sequencing you could do for drums etc. on that button set!
I like this idea
I presumed it was designed to flip it's screen orientation on the right hand side, right? With flipped software, obviously... If not, that would be a huge oversight, imo. Would only need minor hardware tweaks to make this work.
Just inspiring
Bravo superbe projet! est-il possible de hold une ou plusieurs note? Pour l'arppegio, ça serait pas mal :)
It seems to me like a very advanced version of the SP pro program in terms of hardware. Tempted but not big thing.
Damn that's cool. I am almost sold! 😃
I have no idea, what is for and why. But this thing look so nice :D I love design
the question is, will this do Dubstep?
this is great
I actually designed something 90% identical around 10 years ago… but never actually took it from idea to prototype… well done and we’ll implemented.
It happened the same to me with the iPhone.
@@tobytodelafontena Where you an engineer working in the phone industry? Because I was indeed working as head of R&D department of a renowned synths & gear German manufacturer.
@@MULTIMAN-MUSIC The problem is that I had a lot of Jobs, Steve, and I can't remember each of those.
@@tobytodelafontena I see. I guess envy makes people show their insecurities online very quickly.
I love it.
Getting strong Plaid vibes from this
Sympa. J'aime bien l’écran tactile qui permet un jeu interactif. J'aimerais bien la même chose mais pour clavier.
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.
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.
that look very fun to create with !!!
Well done!! I knew something like this must work!
Yayyy can't wait to have my hands on it !
Modern Omnichord. Neat.
Price makes me cry!
yes, i dont´expect 49 bucks for this, but 149 or 199 would be OK
That just makes chord even more difficult 😂
LOOKS FRESH AF 👅TIME TO COOK 🧑🍳
Dope AF
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?
I want it!
Chordbot walked so that this could run
amazing video
This is Fire 🔥
wow! really cool!
космическое устройство! прекрасно!
THIS IS COOL! GOOD LUCK WITH THIS MACHINE
Are the "keys" velocity sensitive?
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?
French79 in a box, gj man!
Great device as long as we aren't limited to a handful of stock sounds that come with the machine
It's not a synthesiser, it's a controller.
Yes
Next gen Omnichord
so cool. can it control regular synths via midi ?
Teknoloji bir harika
AWESOME!!!
im using Cthulhu vst with a Pulse 2 , but i love to try your Chord Machine since it's way more developed than the plugin...
Soooooo coooll!!!!
The last few bits sounded something like the II-L (check out Sputnik songs, great mastery)
Looks wonderful!
Love how the jam is bad, true to life .
Like a modern Omnichord
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?
Nice looking
wow..love this treasure! hope it gets soon to amazon and mass stores!
Great stuff! Can you record a longer theme from 4:09?