Chord Machine AKT-0.1 - First Demo Video
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- ✨ Chord Machine AKT-0.1 🏭 Soon in production 🛒 Still available on Indiegogo!
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🎹 The Chord Machine AKT-0.1 is a MIDI controller designed for making chord progressions easy and fun to play!
🎶 Get inspired for hours
🎤 Write songs in minutes
✨ New ways of playing
🇨🇭 Made in Switzerland with love
🧡 by Akuto Studio
🎼 More music coming soon
⚙️ Stay tuned!
instagram: / akutostudio
Website: akutostudio.com/
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🎥 Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
00:07 Basics
Keyboard modes:
00:31 Tonnetz
01:05 Accordion
01:21 Piano
01:28 Scales
Screen modes:
01:50 Direct
01:57 Strum
02:13 Zebra
02:25 Arpeggiator
Live demo:
02:45 Jam - Hudba
This is cool! The strum mode makes this unique and its own instrument. This isn’t a replacement for a piano it’s just a completely different thing. There’s no way to mimic the strum mode of this on a piano
The way the device works and how it's laid out can potentially carry into the way you approach writing without the device, too. I like how it puts the user into a much different way of thinking and creating versus one's usual approach to composing.
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Of all the chord helping tools I've seen so far, this looks like the simplest, slick'est, most flexible, powerful and well thought out one so far. Nice :)
Or you could buy a Roland J6 and Simpler 2 for half the price
@@notmyrealname9059 but it doesn't look like a hipster "sound design" device... ):
Or learn a chord progression? Children do it easily
@@HAHb-zc2dp do they strum chords on a piano keyboard easily too?
@@howardjones543 yes,it's very easy Google child plays piano, if s child can use their hands why can't you? Do you even have a real excuse for your laziness? Are you missing both hands? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Polarizing to be sure. I think its dope. Throw it in the bag with the laptop and get the most out of all those VSTs I bought. A lot of people tend to forget that we're in this game cause we aint exactly broke anyways.
Dude, crazy machine.
I want it!
Can't wait to see my one after years of waiting :D still looks great!
Yayyy can't wait to have my hands on it !
The design is pure goodness, reminds a little of TE or the old Braun stuff.
Hell yeah! Can't wait to get mine and do a v2 of my "Modular Chord Machine" video :D
I'm not a musician, but I want this machine!
Yes, the design is perfect
This is absolutly amazing!
That's neat! Good job.
an excellent idea. this is different
Fancy omnichord/autoharp!
that look very fun to create with !!!
Chordbot walked so that this could run
Looks wonderful!
Well done!! I knew something like this must work!
THIS IS COOL! GOOD LUCK WITH THIS MACHINE
I feel like this could be way more than a chord machine…
super cool
I like this idea
I am excited by this.
NIce idea. Nice design.
Price makes me cry!
yes, i dont´expect 49 bucks for this, but 149 or 199 would be OK
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Great!!! ❤
absolutely love this concept! I wonder if this has application in music therapy
Looks so nice. Is July still on as a shipping date? Can't wait to mess with it...
Also wanted to know how the touchscreen functions can be utilised, it it possible to assign CC values?
It looks nice but it doesn’t look intuitive to me and if I have basic piano skills it will be like walking with a crouch when you’re not disabled, if I don’t know piano I would have to learn it eventually anyway when I outgrow that little thing.
If it’s battery powered, has a speaker,ability to record and below $150 then it will make sense as a chord progression machine.
Now I’m using Navichord app on my phone.
awesome
i love it
Interesting !!
Very cool
Nice!
I'm interested what kind of unusual step sequencing you could do for drums etc. on that button set!
Let's gooo 💪
Been a while since I saw something that appears genuinely quite inspiring. Bit like an electric autoharp.
nice!
As a righty guitar player synth nerd, I wish there was a way to use this completely flipped. I really love that strumming feature, would just prefer my left hand for that. You could turn it upside down, but then the display would be upside down. This is very cool though, none the less. Omnichord and OP1 lovechild.
If you go back to the original kickstarter listing, they say you can flip the unit and it will play correctly.
it's really sad how expensive this is, you could have easily reached a much much bigger audience if this was like half the price
Folks should pick up a Roland Aria J-6 if they wanna have chord fun. It doesn't quite compare to this at all but quite a value
They’re not a major company with a supply chain to make economies of scale happen. They’re an indie gear producer making their first product, so their goal is pretty obviously just being able to make it at all, not making a mass market product
They probably had to use at least some custom parts to achieve the look. Operating on a small scale can be pretty expensive if you're not using off the shelf products.
Very cool device. Very very helpful. Congrats !
The first idea that I would like to add there is to add the ability to control chords inside the patch by setting up oscillators. that is, there is 1 oscillator, for example, this is the note C, the second is the note E, etc. So this could be used in polyphonic synthesizers. And also, within the chord, make connections to other parameters. that is, when playing notes, some parameters can also change not only in tonality but also in content.
Sorry for the flood.
Thnx!
so cool. can it control regular synths via midi ?
Where are tge sounds coming from? What is this hooked up to?
French79 in a box, gj man!
Really like the idea of this, but the only thing putting me off is that it doesnt appear to do inversions. When I write a chord progression I like to use inversions to make the progressions flow better than jumping around too much. Is there a way to do this here?
Dam... this will be better for me than the thy333 keyboard
Velocity sensitive?
Pretty sure it’s not velocity sensitive. They never mentioned that the buttons have any sort of pressure sensitivity (which would have been awesome, think EP-133 KO II).
Clearly not
Nice looking
whoa cool! just when I was telling myself - I don't need anything anymore
in what world is this worth 400
A world with high inflation...
2024 and finally were getting this
Since I'm a guitar player, I want to flip this device. I want to play chords with my left hand, and strum with my right hand. Will it work that way?
people will do anything to avoid learning to play chords
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I thought the same! It seems easier just to learn the chords
Interesting… ‘perspective.’ How about considering some others? Some people have neither the time nor inclination, and may be focused on other types of creation and other instruments. Some people might find a different way of working to inspire different types of results. People who have played piano and/or have a foundation in theory tend to follow the same rules and often get stuck in familiar patterns. This is just another type of technology-a variant. What if Apple decided people should just stick with texting on a numerical keypad. Or that no one needed an internet browser on a phone. What if DAW makers said “people will do anything to avoid recording to tape.” I’ll bet that if you examined your own life and workflows, you’ll find someone could make the same comment as yours about the things you now take for granted.
@CentaurusRelax314 no timr nor inclination? Go do something else. Im sure youll find fun or duty in there.
There’s more amazing musicians that won’t take time to learn how to song write.
An important detail is that this is a midi controller. Meaning it just sends note commands to a DAW. Cool Idea, but the sounds are from the DAW and not the controller. An important detail that I think many people getting into making music will not grasp!
Yes
Does it have a sequencer/looper? That would make it a great practice tool. Also, why a hardware implementation? IMHO, as an iOS app, this thing would be a no-brainer.
LOOKS FRESH AF 👅TIME TO COOK 🧑🍳
can you get your own samples onto this fairly easily as well?
Great device as long as we aren't limited to a handful of stock sounds that come with the machine
It's not a synthesiser, it's a controller.
Genius Machine! I want it !!... Oops! 400$?... Well, I'll call you back.
Is it possible to make modal or chord interchanges with different tonalities? Is the only feature that will make me buy this straight away
Also I would like to know if it's possible to make some way of voice leading option, the problem with most of this machines is that they only play chords in a tonality, with difficult way to change the mode or borrow chords from other tonalities, and the voicings of the chords are always the same, Wich makes complicated to make them sound natural and realistic, and it's very important in many genres to be able to lead the voices to make the progression sound fluidly... I think it's possible with some programming. If you add this features (maybe in a future firmware update) I buy this chord generator instead of any other
it says "built in 3.5 TRRS" but I don't see any mention of what that is.
Is that midi out? Please tell me that's midi out.
Yes it is indeed a MIDI out. (thanks to our Kickstarter backers)
We will btw soon share some demos where we use it!
@@akutostudio Okay, NOW you have my attention!
@akutostudio thanks to your supporters? You mean you really planned to build a midi controller without an midi out originally 😳
@@distorsonI guess it had only MIDI over USB, which is indeed pretty normal. All KMI devices used to have only micro usb.
the question is, will this do Dubstep?
I actually designed something 90% identical around 10 years ago… but never actually took it from idea to prototype… well done and we’ll implemented.
It happened the same to me with the iPhone.
@@tobytodelafontena Where you an engineer working in the phone industry? Because I was indeed working as head of R&D department of a renowned synths & gear German manufacturer.
@@MULTIMAN-MUSIC The problem is that I had a lot of Jobs, Steve, and I can't remember each of those.
@@tobytodelafontena I see. I guess envy makes people show their insecurities online very quickly.
Show the acompagning App for iOS as well?
does it have velocity?
Does it have voice leading?
400 for a midi controller???? That does something daws have built into them? Insane.
Price? I cant find it. Thanks.
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Looks nice but I'd like it more if it were open source hardware. With no warranty on the hardware, a breakage means you could be in trouble.
How does this not ship to the UK…
great , but I can see myself using this upside down, also it would be nice to access the screen modes all at once.... make a bigger pro version please as this is cool like the suzuki omnichord but much better...... also a mode so we can chain them together or something, I'd use it right now maybe in pairs.... the indiegogo says new ways of playing chords, hmmm nope don't see anything new yet, you have a cool product no need for hype
Rick Beato should see this
It's cheating, and I love it. Music playing should be easy
cool but what is the advantage of this over a regular midi keyboard+daw?
as a beginner, you can find chords which go well together without extensive theory knowwage .As a professional, after you learn the matchine it will save you lots of time programming chords by hand. Even professionals don't have clear vision sometimes so i think that's where it will shine. Sorry for the terrible english
@@mom0musicgreat explanation, thank you!
@@mom0music I think it's a cool instrument but sincerely a regular keyboard is a beautiful configuration that is very difficult to improve upon. I highly recommend everyone dive into learning a keyboard, it will probably help you play with this thing too.
@@TommyLikeTom never said it would replace the conventional keyboard,just that it saves time to both people who know how to play and writr music as well as those who don't.
@@mom0music But can it do inversions? If not, it is kind of useless?
a piano is a chord machine
c'est cool les gars, vous êtes d'ou ??
can I have this please
so cool and so complex, but i think im just gonna buy an ipad, its more simple lol
The idea is interesting but still no. What if I want to play chord progression of, let's say this:
Cm - G wide second inversion - Cm wide first inversion OVER A# in the bass note - C#maj7? On fly? With voice leading according to the harmony rules? There simply will be not enough key variations for that.
interesting but why make a device when this could just be an app on an ipad? the touchscreen side looks like garageband strumming instruments in some ways
Wonderful keyboard. Too pricey.
Keyboard replacement attempt, number 57755.
hmmh... looks cool but does it really help with anything? remembering the triangles ... you could as well just play the chord on the keyboard ... and it'd sound as novice as this demo. Where is the advantage?
1:15 Giorno's Theme
Nice catch lmao
Что только не создадут в "пекельных мирах", и не привезут сюда под видом машин, созданных земными инженерами, где то за океаном!!))
Bet you could Change it up a bit and Sell kits that evolve
1:15 - 1:16 Jojo's Bizzare reference. This looks really cool
wow..love this treasure! hope it gets soon to amazon and mass stores!
Chord ion is still my go to on the ipad
was interested until i saw the price
Too bad this midi controller has such steap price.
So, it's a MIDI controller? No sound engine built in? Would be good to mention that I guess????
Make a black version before people scream teenage engineering at you 👍
Why is the dial on the right not centered? Why do you hate OCD people so much?
It corresponds to the root note selector on the screen
its centered, but pretty high, so it appears to be more on the right.
Electronic musicians will spend weeks learning an esoteric interface just to avoid actually learning the instrument they supposedly play
Easy to be dismissive. Tons of uses for this. People who have disabilities, memory problems ect. And I would imagine that it grips the s**t of gatekeepers.... 😁
@@andrewstanworth529this is a nice way to get complex tonality in a compact setup, but like, how are you going to use this effectively without a good grounding in music theory?
You might as well use one of those “chord packs”
Who hurt you
The “instrument you play” is a synth. The keyboard is simply a user interface for triggering notes. The piano keyboard is a powerful interface but it’s not the only one. Accordions have long used button grids for both notes and chords. Alternative “isometric” keyboards like the Tonnetz have been around for, in some cases, centuries; they’re no less powerful than the piano layout and have benefits such as moveable shapes for chords (like on guitar.)
Gatekeep much?
aaaaand probably $1000? or more?
You could (should) have clicked on their link to see the price is €386.
@@nicovandenberg_ Oh great! This is an Indigogo/Kickstarter, so it’ll never be released, and if it is, it’ll suck.
just needs a built-in loop pedal and it’d be perfect