Yamaha Tenori On Visual Music Creation DeviceYamaha Tenori On Music Creation Device; Intuitive Music Creation with a Visible Music LED Interface!
You've never seen anything like this before! Part sequencer, part tone generator, part sampler; all controlled by a touch screen 16x16 LED matrix display! It's a whole other world of music creation that brings incredible stimulation to composing and live performance. Most importantly it’s a unique new way for anyone from cutting edge electronic artists to non-musicians to approach playing and composing music. Music instantly becomes a wall of light graffiti as you paint the sounds across its 256 LED buttons.
Yamaha Tenori On Features
- 6 Performance Modes
- Adjustable BPM (40 -240)
- Transpose Function (-7 to +8)
- Synchronized performance with two instruments
- Recording
- Tone Generator
- 32 Note Polyphony
- 253 Preset Voices (239 normal, 14 drum kit)
- 2 Effects Processors for Chorus and Reverb
- 3 Voice Sampling: 3 (16 samples per voice)
- Built in Stereo Speakers (1-watt output power)
- MIDI and Line Out/Headphone connections
- SD Memory Card compatible
- Powered by 6AA Batteries or included AC adapter
In collaboration with Media artist Toshio Iwai, Yamaha has designed the most visually intuitive musical instrument for the 21st century. Currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tenori On is both a musical instrument and a performance work of art.
Versatility
Play Tenori On live with the built in sounds or connect the MIDI output to trigger sounds from your computer or your favorite MIDI enabled sound source. Nearly anyone can pick up the Tenori On and start playing right away with little to no instruction. This unit is built for hard-core enthusiasts too, mastering this instrument can take lots of practice and patience sometimes even reading through the manual time and time again.
Modes
The Tenori On 16 x 16 LED button matrix is simultaneously a performance input controller and display. By operating and interacting with the LED buttons and the light they produce you gain access to the Tenori On's numerous performance capabilities.
The Tenori On provides six different performance and sound/light modes for broad performance versatility, and these modes can be combined and used simultaneously for rich, complex musical expression.
Layers
Tenori On layers can be thought of as
performance parts or
recording tracks. The Tenori On has a total of 16 layers. Separate notes and voices can be assigned to each layer, and all layers can be played together in synchronization.
The 16 layers are divided into six performance mode groups as shown in the illustration below. The six modes have different note entry methods and operation. Up to 16 layers created using different modes can be combined for rich, complex musical expression.
Blocks
Once complete set of 16 layers is called a
block. The Tenori On can store up to 16 programmed blocks (16-layer groups) in memory, and you can switch from block to block instantly during performance.
You could, for example, create a musical composition in one block, then copy that composition to another block and edit it to create a variation of the original composition. Or you can load a number of previously-created compositions into separate blocks from an SD Memory Card and switch between them to create variation during playback.