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Filed under: Electronic Instruments, Keyboard Synthesizers, MIDI Controllers, Strange
Cool Music Instruments’ Chromaticover is slightly bizarre device that turns your synthesizer into an accordion.
The Chromaticover is a hardware chromatic keyboard, with an accordion-style mechanism for both right hand and left hand. The keyboard features magnetic MIDI sensors, with the key touch of a real accordion.
The Chromaticover sits directly on top of your existing keyboard or piano keys so you don’t loose any additional space. It has been designed to fit any keyboard: it just sits on top of the existing keys, making your instrument a fully operational chromatic keyboard.
Left hand: 120 active bass buttons
Right hand: 86 active buttons
Details at the Cool Music Instruments site.
via DeviantSynth
Bizarre Keyboard Demo
This is a demo of the H-Pi Tonal Plexus TPX6s, a keyboard designed for creating microtonal music.
“Here is a sketch using 2 main ideas. The first is a motive including the 11th and 13th harmonics, and the second is a sequence using natural 7ths. Sorry, the camera angle is not the greatest as it hides what my right hand is doing. The sound is 019 ChrchOrgn from the internal synth, with reverb setting on 07 (delay), all max values.”
For a lot of people – H-PI’s keyboard will look like a bizarre monstrosity. But for musicians interested in exploring alternate tunings, it’s one of the most advanced keyboards ever created. Read more…
