Yes, it can do so many magical things that we've neglected to highlight this, but it's what a lot of folks use it for exclusively! Totally mind-blowing workflow.
Most excellent! Rather than drum loops, another thing you can do with the “leftover” keys is continuous controllers to control nuances of the violin-family instruments (of which there are myriads!).
We want you to have one! And heads up: if you haven't ordered already, there's a Black Friday sale on right now -- which we don't normally do -- we've dropped $300 off for the next few units sold. This price won't be something we can pull off again...
Very, very cool. For one of my gigs, I play second keys (“colors”), and try to do a bit of this patch building with a Yamaha MODX8. It’s been a great learning experience, and it’s a quite capable instrument, but for my own stuff I often want to stitch together combinations of instruments which use up the available keys and then some. This seems like a much more natural way to divvy up control of instrumental patches, rather than remembering where I put all the keyboard splits (which works fine until you come back to a multi-instrument patch you haven’t used for a while…).
This electro-mechanical version looks and functions great, but I hope Lumatone is taking the next step to create a touchscreen version to entirely do away with the mechanical keys. Then I’ll be more inclined to buy one.
What's the advantage of a touchscreen over physical buttons? I can't imagine trying to play piano on a touchscreen, the lack of physical feedback would be incredibly frustrating for me
