this gives me serious art-lebedev keyboard vibes. anyone here remember those ?
Terpstra Keyboard
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Re: Terpstra Keyboard
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does it have to do with "Capitalism" per se? If you have a well made, but very niche product that sells in very small volumes it will be expensive. If any of the labour & assembly happens in US that turns it into unavoidable inevitability. If it was cheaper, it would be a loss making hobby. A country without "capitalism" wouldn't make such product for sale to begin with.
maybe a society which has laws and regulations voted by citizens (anarchy for example) commercial products shouldn't profit over 700% or some absurdity which caps the 5000 usd number... it's not like velocity sensible keys are expensive or overly complex to produce micro-tonal instruments are prevalent in various cultures which weren't flooded by Europe and then North America by hundreds, if not thousands of years ag…
> maybe a society which has laws and regulations voted by citizens (anarchy for example) commercial products shouldn't profit over 700% or some absurdity which caps the 5000 usd number
No problemo. The consequence of that law is you'll simply not get those products on the market because there's not enough profit to justify someone spending the time to make them.
See also: Rent control, minimum wage, price control (e.g. maximum price of gasoline during a shortage).
Re: Terpstra Keyboard
#63I play the lumatone ( https://www.lumatone.io/ ) which is very similar. I personally love it, especially as I like to do a lot of improv in various tunings, and the layout makes transposing and thinking about structure so much easier than a traditional keyboard. The terpstra seems similar, not sure what their selling point is over the lumatone. Edit: oh, it seems that the lumatone is the commercialized version essent…
have you ever tried a midi fighter? https://www.midifighter.com/
if so how do they compare?
I would expect the midi fighter with less keys would be somehow easier to control and get better results from.
Re: Terpstra Keyboard
#64I play the lumatone ( https://www.lumatone.io/ ) which is very similar. I personally love it, especially as I like to do a lot of improv in various tunings, and the layout makes transposing and thinking about structure so much easier than a traditional keyboard. The terpstra seems similar, not sure what their selling point is over the lumatone. Edit: oh, it seems that the lumatone is the commercialized version essent…
> oh, it seems that the lumatone is the commercialized version essentially
From the same makers or others?
On the website I can find no info whether this project is concluded or not.
Re: Terpstra Keyboard
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does it have to do with "Capitalism" per se? If you have a well made, but very niche product that sells in very small volumes it will be expensive. If any of the labour & assembly happens in US that turns it into unavoidable inevitability. If it was cheaper, it would be a loss making hobby. A country without "capitalism" wouldn't make such product for sale to begin with.
maybe a society which has laws and regulations voted by citizens (anarchy for example) commercial products shouldn't profit over 700% or some absurdity which caps the 5000 usd number... it's not like velocity sensible keys are expensive or overly complex to produce micro-tonal instruments are prevalent in various cultures which weren't flooded by Europe and then North America by hundreds, if not thousands of years ag…
> micro-tonal instruments are prevalent in various cultures which weren't flooded by Europe and then North America by hundreds,
They're probably most prevalent in Europe, though. That's where most microtonal instruments come from.
Re: Terpstra Keyboard
#66For folks wondering wtf is going on with the key layout, this is what's called an isomorphic ("same shape") layout. The idea is you can learn how to play a certain grouping of notes relative to each other, and then you can play that same grouping anywhere on the keyboard relative to some other note. So for example a C major triad is the notes C-E-G played together. And a D major triad is the notes D-F#-A played toget…
Not only the bass buttons, there is a type of chromatic button accordion, popular in eastern europe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Z4iPyFmAE
I can't find it now but a while back on R*dd*t /r/synthesizers there was a diatonic Korg Triton that someone had clearly had custom made - possibly from the guts of a diatonic MIDI accordion, not sure.
It looked pretty slick, not the usual homebrewed raggy-edge crap. Someone had clearly spent quite a lot of money on getting *exactly* what they wanted.
Re: Terpstra Keyboard
#67Seems like a Novation Launchpad (or similar) checks a lot of the same boxes, for a fraction of the cost and desk space.
Re: Terpstra Keyboard
#68For folks wondering wtf is going on with the key layout, this is what's called an isomorphic ("same shape") layout. The idea is you can learn how to play a certain grouping of notes relative to each other, and then you can play that same grouping anywhere on the keyboard relative to some other note. So for example a C major triad is the notes C-E-G played together. And a D major triad is the notes D-F#-A played toget…
Now piano players will be able to join guitar players as not needing to read music or know theory!
What kind of guitar players are these? Are you talking about pop music?
Re: Terpstra Keyboard
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Now piano players will be able to join guitar players as not needing to read music or know theory!
What kind of guitar players are these? Are you talking about pop music?
I think they're just making a guitar player stereotype joke. As a guitar player myself, I thought it was funny.