Yamaha's Tenori-on goes on sale in America
By Darren Murph 
posted June 19th 2008 4:10PM
posted June 19th 2008 4:10PM
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make it cheaper, please....
a music maker for $1,200 um...
i just watched the video on youtube, couldn't someone make an app for a computer or maybe ds or iphone that could do the same thing for less?
Actually, come July, something similar is coming out for the DS; the Korg DS10. You should look it up, it's really crazy stuff.
its called a laptop.
...what a terrible web-site they have, device seems interesting...idk about the $1200 price tag though.
The sequencer is normally $300.
They tacked on the extra $900 to raise funding for a new website.
Yeah but can it play Beethoven's 7th symphony?
Yeah but can it play Beethoven's 7th symphony?
Damn you Krush imposter - posting my comments over again with my name and avatar!!
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D@mn you Krush imposter - stealing my comments and avatar eh?
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LOL at you. Double double-post.
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Just saw Daedalus play a set in LA with one of these (I think)... It was rad.
Daedelus uses a monome, not a Tenori-On. He actually helped design the monome. Tenori-On's are pretty much programmed to do a couple of things coming out of the factory, whereas monome boxes are OSC controllers. I have a monome 40h, and it can do everything that box can do, and more.
That's likely to have been a monome (256 or "Box" prototype), which he helped develop.
Looks like they ripped off the Monome, except that the Tenori-on is undoubtedly less hackable.
Doubtful. To say nothing of the fact that the devices have been developed over similar and overlapping timeframes, you might just as well accuse both of "ripping off" the MPC series, or even any old drum machine's step sequencer.
This is all quite bizarre, like trying to score points online by accusing Moog of ripping off the piano, and the piano the harpsichord.
What the %#%* is it?
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Totally rip off of the monome series, except not nearly as configurable. The monome can do ANYTHING, this thing is inherently limited in its design. Save yourself some cash, learn yourself some software and buy a monome.
Funny how you fail to realize that you are comparing two completely different products which have difference purposes.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz... this again? Even to the very superficial extent that the two devices are similar, it's not fair to accuse the Tenori-on of being a rip-off. It first appeared at Siggraph 2005, the year before the 40h went on sale (although Daedalus started testing The Box as far back as 2003). In any case, it's far more likely that Iwai was inspired by the classic MPC pad layout and/or the logical step of squaring out a traditional row of step sequencer buttons into a grid than by Crabtree's devices; and again, he took it in a totally different direction.
And how would a monome save you money? The 256, whose 16x16 grid is most closely comparable to the Tenori-on, costs $200 more, when it's actually available.
It costs just a wee... $1,200!!!!! Get a life. This thing is a child's play toy affordable only by the big rich guy that just happens to live down the street and drives a black Mercedes-Benz! PLEASE PEOPLE!
(By the way, look the TENORI-ON up and you will find out that i am not lying about the price. For Pete's sake! TENORI-ON even SOUNDS expensive.)
I think you just graduating from Captain Obvious to having a PhD.
I'll just keep on whistling, it's cheaper.
Already placed my order, can't wait to get this thing in on Monday
I love how they got road runner to write their tag line...
"Beep beep"
Be nice people, be nice. Thank you.
I saw Jonathan Coulton use one of these while playing the song "My Monkey" live in Columbus, OH. It was an amazing little device. All I could think of during the whole song was "What the hell is that thing?"
Here is a link to a Seattle show performance of the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO_lY7M608
MONOME.ORG
The Monome is basically just a controller, while the Tenori-on is a synthesiser-cum-sound generator.
They're quite different things, really, apart from the grid concept - and rubber buttons make a big difference anyway.
@Gert
Its not the same. Its a pro-level synth, controller and more.
Its not a DYI consumer controller like the monome.
Similar yes .. the same .. no.
It's put on the market by Japan. It's a shortage also in the YAMAHA own country.
The crowded note is a mysterious sense not imaginable when operating it alone.
I think including the sound source of YAMAHA in a palmar size to be very attractive.
Development advanced in 2002, and it took about five years for sales.
The impression like the shift period from the prototype to the product is received when taking it though it is still the first generation.
It is a sense of touch that looks like the keyboard though it is necessary to push LED firmly. Moreover, it is possible to play as typed.
Candid advice, usual music cannot dare to be copied. Time doesn't suffice.
The version of software is 1.0.
As I thought, SDHC card non-corresponds.
Perhaps, I think that it can do by the price of about $1000 or less if they are other electronic manufacturers though the specification of a state-of-the-art wireless technology is put.
And, there is a possibility of making it to half the price if it is analogous articles.
But, it's a keystone of this commodity the musical instrument manufacturer's guaranteeing tone quality and durability.
Anyway, it is not to guarantee the quality of the sound in other manufacturing manufacturers.