i would try to have fun with this. i would probably fail. but i like the challenge

MrBlahBlah

I can't wait to try this thing out sometime soon seems epic.

Yekrut

If you're going to make a video advertising a sequencer or what have you, for the love of our sweet, gentle Christ can you please do so with a sense of timing? I spent the whole video agonizing over how off-time it was.

That said, and the negative part out of the way, it does look pretty much like a lot of fun. I know I'd kill time waiting for a bus playing this thing.

Leningrad

Tenori-On Hero

BiZarRroBALlmeR

@bosskev: Based on your statement, it appears that we can safely equate the application to be the aural equivalent of "greater-than 1" monkey all the way to infinity-monkeys. Since the known volume that a barrel can hold is within this range, it follows that this application is equivalent to at least one barrel of monkeys, which is good enough for me.

chonnes

@kaneshadow: True. That's why the thrill of illegally downloading fancy music software wears off pretty quickly too, because then you're sitting there, face to face with the fact that you've got no skills and no excuses. The other side of the coin is, I once saw a great musician make compelling music with a freaking piece of paper.

itchytooth

Hmm. Sounds like there's a little inconsistent latency in the note/sample playback. Hope that gets solved, it messes up the rythm now and then.

RigorMortis

Damn, I'm cranky in the morning.

bosskev

@banmojo: Ten minutes? Seems generous, maybe two minutes for me.

And, as kaneshadow suggests, the universally missing feature of apps like this is talent. To me, the demo in this video seems a wee bit too much like the aural equivalent of what you might get from infinite monkeys on typewriters--only in this case it's only the one monkey.

bosskev

How much will this cost? It would have to be free for me to download it.

cartman005

I must have this.
Hours of fun
no eat
no sleep

Carmen turns 19 in 3 days!!!

looks semi interesting - something I'd play with for 10 minutes then hardly ever again. Maybe musicians would have more fun with it but I'd guess musicians would have more tangible, robust instruments to play with.

banmojo

@dead_red_eyes: cool

jkr2

Do you have to be completely tone deaf to be able to enjoy this? That was... irritating.

BoinK

@jkr2:

I think that it would be pretty hard for Yamaha to press legal action as there are many step sequencers out there today that have that look, like the Monome for one.

dead_red_eyes

Wow, this is really great!!! Now all it needs is a proper BPM setting and it's good to go!

dead_red_eyes

Do want! Can't wait!

PC+Mac Coexist

waiting for the copyright smackdown to come.

jkr2

Actually the video proves my point quite well

kaneshadow

As both a gadget whore and a fan of electronic music, this stuff always gets me really excited, but what they don't write on the box is "some talent required- individual results may vary"

kaneshadow

wow i do want. that was awesome.

graphx

And how quick will it kill your battery?

I have trouble making it 18 hours without running apps like this which must be hell on the processor.

God made the pretty girls pretty because he likes them more

does anyone know where you can get non touch based apps like this for the PC...?

romado12187

Nice....So when that UFO visits my bedroom window, I can use my iPhone and this program to communicate with it. Tell those sluts to stop abducting me and anal probing me.

TheSonOfKrypton

@RigorMortis:

I agree. How can a 16-beat loop sound SO out-of-whack? It's not like those plinkity-plink sounds aren't irritating enough...

askii

My God - take some freaking MUSIC lessons.

sharkync

Or a Korg KOSS................................

+ Watch video

macbob1

It's a freaking toy for creative folks. For all you "serious and talented musicians" buy the Tenori-ON and STFU!

macbob1

this would be fun for the bus to/from work with some headphones, but i went to a show where one of the opening acts was a guy with the original sequencer above and it really pissed me off...not so much the music, but the 'dj' if that's what you call people who use this thing. it's like the advent of blogs, but for music. before, you had to know at least a little bit to have a website to voice your opinion on the net, but now every asshole's got a blog. with this, every asshole's got a record deal with little-to-no real skill.

MobileMilitia

I've been fiddling with the BeatMaker iPhone app from Intua, which features a sequencer that you can manipulate by touch: [www.intua.net]

It's actually a lot of fun! You can check out the complete capabilities in the online user manual: [www.intua.net]

enoent

The song toward the end sounded like ass....

This will be free right? Otherwise...I'll pass.

JEmlay