I love the Lumatone's programmable isomorphic keyboard. Hexagons are the bestagons!

Something I'd like to recommend everyone try is the Wicki-Hayden layout, which has whole tones going across on the shallow diagonals like Bosanquet, but has perfect fifths on the / diagonals like the Harmonic Table layout. This means that the \ axis has perfect fourths, and it turns each key signature into a solid block of the keyboard. It's super intuitive to learn, and makes a really nice compromise between harmony and melody. I haven't yet had the chance to have too many people over to see my Lumatone, but it's always fun to see the look on someone's face when they're not a musician and touch the keyboard in that layout, since they're almost bound to play something that sounds nice -- you have to stretch a little to get out of key. Since the octave is pretty much vertical, it makes arpeggios even easier than the Harmonic Table. It also generalizes to larger EDOs like Bosanquet does (where the Harmonic Table tends to make the octaves get spread out quite far) -- it works especially well with anything meantone, like 19, 31, or 43edo. Chromaticism is a little bit less obvious than Bosanquet, but with a little bit of practice, it's no problem either.

"INSTANT MEDIOCRE JAZZ" I'm dead 😂😂😂😂😂

I was extremely fortunate to have met Herbie Hancock a few years ago when he visited my place of work during a tour (I served him coffee too!!!). He unexpectedly steered the conversation to virtual reality musical interfaces and ambisonic synthesizers, so I can imagine almost without a doubt he'd be into the Lumatone!

Great introduction… looking forward to more!

"instant mediocre jazz". lol. that works for me ! : )

Now that I understand the principle of an isomorphic layout, and that every chord shape or interval pattern is always the same....this is the cheat code! I can learn the common chord shapes (major, minor, 7th, diminished, augmented, etc) in a SINGLE good lesson on the Lumatone keyboard, while learning all those shapes in every key on a conventional keyboard is MONTHS of lessons and practice! Now if only it didn't cost 3 grand to get one....

Great idea! Loved the vid, and looking forward to more!

Just purchased a Lumatone! Can't wait for it to arrive. Thank you for all the guidance and inspiration. I'm going to go back and re-watch all these videos.

i gotta see a Lumatone Keytar soon

definitely next level- I kind of think that possibly the diagonal aspect is confusing would prefer horizontal + vertical playing I think- more like the Janko

Been waiting for a series that taught how to use this ~ I own a Roli Seaboard, the size under the grand that came with a hard case, and well, it sits in its beautiful case because... I don't know how to really use it. I wasn't going to make that same mistake again with Lumatone, albeit it is an entirely different concept, totally different. So... I am subscribed. Loved the overview and waiting to learn more.Teach on...

I usually really don’t like controllers like this but…. …. I really want to try this. It’s like a rainbow, lite brite, Commodore 64 mind blower

So excited to see more!!!

That first setup reminds me of a button accordion a lot.

Finally, an instrument that makes the piano look cool

I hope Thom Yorke has gotten his hands on one of these. I can’t even imagine what he’d come up with.

This video was amazing 😂

amazing!

70s prog rock bands would do wonders with this stuff.

Ohhhh, the possibilities... Primal urge to retake up piano emerging

I didn´t know that Asmongold also makes music. Multi talent. But where did he get those hair?

Really friendly guy and a great presenter

Hi ! Can you program it as you want to do some Just intonation or are you stucked with equal temperaments ?

Where can I find David James’ music?

Bro he seemed high by the end of the video when he mentioned super majors, it's just that crazy to think about the possibilities 😂 totally understand hahah

Hi! ValkyRiver here! I have been learning this by myself using A-based Bosanquet layouts for several equal temperaments.

That’s so much better than classic piano keyboard to learn music.

Looks great, but I am blind color so this is going to be very challenging for me.

recently? wow. you seem to've familiarised yourself pretty well within a year

Martin Molin needs one of these

Every episode I can’t tell if this guy is real or playing an SNL character.

Does this have anything to offer a classical or jazz trained musician with a grasp of music theory and a virtuoso technique? I have seen the upside of learning the Roli Seaboard for the individual pitch bending and filters weeping and

Jacob Collier needs to get his grubbly lil mits on this bad boy.

@02:34 -- "Instant mediocre jazz!" -- win.

incredible host.

That wig is sooooo obvious!!!!

I’m already sold. Too bad it’s 4000 dollars lol. May be quite a while till I can afford it.

what if you don't have any music theory and don't play any instruments yet with actual skill or theory knowledge?

when he showed those 5 steps from C to D, i felt like something broke really bad inside my head.

I play harmonic flute. No holes or keys. In touch with tuning not the equal distempered 12, 31, or any messy math divisions. This keyboard should be able to do meantone with real sevenths in all keys. Hard to see at end-view the "show it once very clearly slowly" shot that should be timed with the narration for each scale. It's a big field of lights but the multi-camera editing should cut to close-up at each fingering.

alienware

The sub count is the price

instant mediocre jazz get me going

Pew this background music tight around the played snippets is anoying

"on top of that it has polyphonic aftertouch" hajdhbdhzjgshsgdvduhdhdududucbisksbdudbsiokanwbsifbdj that's what poly aftertouch is!!!

"Instant mediocre jazz..." ha ha ha ha

Is the guy in the video wearing a wig or is it just me?

I see someone couldn't get their hands on a lippens or janko and needed midi capabilities. I have felt your pain haha.

but, will this run DOOM?

Oof, $4,000? Does Casio make a poor man's version 😂?

damn, i really need the crypto gods to pump these markets so i can get myself one of these and jam a little. Also i die a little inside every time i get slammed with the numbers and octaves and letters. like wouldn't it be just easier if we checked out what sound each key does and then riff until something sounds cool?

Jesus Loves You Sir! i just found this radomly on youtube 🙏 very cool indeed!

cocktail lounge dribble chords for numpties. BUT no real music. Non of the expensive gimmicks ($4000) is actually used by real musicians to produce rhythmic melodies - notice that?

Please take out the background music. It ruins your work here.

Your wig is distracting :/

I hate it.

Is that a wig? @09:15 OK, l guess not.

Terrible background music, totally annoying.

WTF is up with that wig Dave?

This is obviously a joke

Easy mediocre Debussy music XD