Media artist Toshio Iwai collaborated with Yamaha to design a totally new musical instrument for the 21st century. Tenori-on combines a MIDI controller, tone generator, sampler and stunning visual user interface . 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. 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.
Model
Tenori-O
Polyphony
32
Computer Interface
No
Rhythms/Patterns
Yes
Audio Connections
Line Output: Stereo mini phone jack x 1
Recording
Yes
Number of Keys
other
Keyboard Type
other
Tones/Patches
239 normal voices
MIDI
Yes
Metronome
No
Multitimbral
16
Speakers
Yes
Speaker Type
1 watt
Display Type
122 x 32 dot graphic LCD device (orange backlight), 20 characters x 4 lines, monochrome
Pedal Inputs
No
Other Features
Sampling: 3 voices (Raw audio with a maximum length of 0.97 sec., up to 16 samples per voice)
