Tenori-on

[Charles]

A new visual-music instrument by Yamaha

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[Taro Toporific]

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I've been following Toshio Iwai's Electroplankton Theremin for the 21th Century. for some time now (RRS). Even though he now has the backing of Yamaha for more than one year, production has been delayed seemingly f--o--r--e--v--e--r.....

A new visual-music instrument by Yamaha

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[Charles]

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I've been following Toshio Iwai's Electroplankton Theremin for the 21th Century. for some time now (RRS). Even though he now has the backing of Yamaha for more than one year, production has been delayed seemingly f--o--r--e--v--e--r.....

Ah, thanks for the link, I thought I saw something like this on FG before, but I couldn't find it in a quick search. According to the Yamaha site I linked to, the device is on sale now in the UK.

[Charles]

I've now gone through the Yamaha website and listened to every demo mp3 and watched every video demonstration, and there is only one thing missing: music. So far, nobody has used the device to produce anything but noise. Of course this is considered a good thing by many recording "artistes." But I wonder if anyone but the inventor will ever be able to truly play the instrument.

If you want to watch a particularly annoying demo video with a gajin mangling Japanese, I recommend this.

[unkosando]

This is great because it allows people with no talent to make music... Oh wait... I think their are already people out there doing that.

[Charles]

This is great because it allows people with no talent to make music...

Well, it allows them to make sounds, it has a long way to go before I'd consider it music.

[Charles]

The first product reviews are starting to appear online.

[Mulboyne]

Yamaha put on a PR show for the Tenori-on yesterday:



Cornelius used one for an encore in his recent show in Tokyo. Here's a fan video clip:

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They are selling for 121,000 yen.

[Mulboyne]

AFP: Yamaha says strong interest in new music machine

Yamaha says it is seeing brisk interest in a new digital musical instrument that enables users to create and play music as if they are drawing pictures. After a successful advance launch in Britain, Yamaha offered the instrument online in Japan last week at 121,000 yen (1,170 dollars) each. It has already sold a few hundred of the new instrument, against planned sales of 1,000 in Japan for the entire first year, according to the company..."You will be able to compose music in 20 minutes," Yu Nishibori, one of the developers of the TENORI-ON, told AFP...more...

[aquamarine]

Sorry Yamaha, but that price for a small little micro-computer that does nothing other than plays notes (and from what I've seen in real-life situations, has a tenancy to have buttons fail), it's simply not worth it.

20,000 yen? Sure
30,000 yen? Perhaps
121,000 yen? Eat a dick.

[Greji]

Sorry Yamaha, but that price for a small little micro-computer that does nothing other than plays notes (and from what I've seen in real-life situations, has a tenancy to have buttons fail), it's simply not worth it.

20,000 yen? Sure
30,000 yen? Perhaps
121,000 yen? Eat a dick.

Interesting menu....

[IkemenTommy]

This is great because it allows people with no talent to make music... Oh wait... I think their are already people out there doing that.

Welcome to the world of trance "music"

[Blah Pete]

This is the kind of thing that is interesting for a few days, then ends up in a box in the back of a closet.

[aquamarine]

[Charles]

Yea. Unless you use it mainly as your instrument.

For 121,000Y it better play MY organ.

[aquamarine]

Ba-dum ching!

[IkemenTommy]

Ba-dum ching!

Reminds me of that old joke back in elementary school that goes.. "how do Chinese kids get their names?"