Media artist Toshio Iwai collaborated with Yamaha to design a totally new musical instrument. Tenori-on combines a MIDI controller, tone generator, sampler and stunning visual user interface. Most importantly it’s a unique new way to approach playing and composing music. Music instantly becomes a wall of light graffiti as you paint the sounds across its 256 LED buttons. The new lower priced O model is functionally exactly the same as the original W except its 256 orange LEDs are on one side of its unique hands on interface and it does not operate on batteries. The Tenori-O will appeal to producers, music production home studios and anyone who wants to start instantly making music visually.
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I really was super excited to get my Tenori-on Orange. And I was not dissapointed in what I was able to do with it and how fast i was able to figure it out. However when I realized that the Orange version which is priced more reasonably than the Tenori-on White one, was not available Battery accessible i was dissapointed and decided to return it and go for the more expensive white one.
I like the thing though and will have hours of fun on it. I think you will to.
After using software step sequencers for ... god knows how long... it's really nice to have something that is tangible to hold. The visual feedback (animation) the Tenori-on provides is fun too. I don't mean to slight an iOS version of the Tenori-on, but it's signifcantly cheaper because it is just a piece of software. sure, you can touch it and enter note events... but there's no small LED-back-lit button that you can actually feel-- just a sheet of glass.
This all being said, the Tenori-on is GREAT for thinking about your music differently. If you find yourself falling into the same keys and chords and similar melodies... This device will help you forget about notes/keys/strings/frets and finally get you to think outside of the box... again :-)
Sampling is limited on these things, but their usefulness as a sequencer/controller is unbelievable.