The waiting is over. The innovative portable Hyve Touch Synthesizer is now available exclusively on Kickstarter for everyone in different versions. A really cool new Synthesizer with a different approach of making sounds and playing them. Really looking forward to play one day with this little amazing device. Congratulation to Skot Wiedmann who is the maker of this amazing new instrument.
Hyve Touch Synth: Make the future of musical expression: A fun, expressive musical instrument you can make, hack and play. Build a beautiful analog synth that responds to touch and movement.
About this project: Hyve Touch Synthesizer is a fun, expressive musical instrument that anyone can make and play. It responds to human touch, even your slightest finger movements give you powerful control. Turning these gestures into sound allows you to play music like never before.
Expressive touch, analog synth: Slide your fingers across the surface to explore new ways to touch sound. It’s a 60-voice polyphonic analog Synthesizer that controlled by pressure, horizontal, and vertical movements of each finger on the surface. Even the smallest wiggle of your finger makes the sound comes alive, giving expression to the music you make.
Explore and harmonize: Notes on the Hyve are arranged so that you can easily explore harmonies and tone combinations with small movements of your finger.
The bottom half is arranged like a piano keyboard. Each key senses pressure, vertical position, and horizontal position. Moving vertically allows you to sweep through octaves and harmonically combine them into evolving tones. Horizontal movements push the sound right and left in stereo. Touching the bottom row causes a pressure-controlled pitch bend.
The top half uses a hexagon grid to put notes that sound good together right next to each other. Every adjacent note is harmonically related: straight up is a perfect 5th, up to the right is a major 3rd, and up to the left is a minor 3rd. This means that one finger can play a chord and slide to the next chord in the song. Each hexagon also senses pressure and horizontal position like the bottom half.
How do I play it? The Hyve was designed to be immediate and accessible. You don’t need to know anything to start touching sound.
1. Plug in power and headphones
2. Touch the surface
3. Slide and explore
Tech specs
More Informations about the different versions, you can find here: Hyve Synth Kickstarter
Tech specs
- Dimensions: 153mm x 127mm x 13mm (6″ x 5″ x 0.5″)
- 60 note polyphony
- Responds to horizontal position, vertical position and pressure for each key
- Input: 9V DC 5.5mm barrel connector (7-18V input voltage compatible)
- Output: 3.5mm stereo headphone jack
- Extremely low power, average 15mA
- 10 SOIC ICs, 24 1206 resistors, 18 1206 Capacitors, 1 1206 diode, 12 trimpots, 2 connectors
The Hyve Synth Hacker begins at only $75 USD and for non soldering people, it begins at $149 USD. There is also a special edition available with high-quality wood for $299 USD.
More Informations about the different versions, you can find here: Hyve Synth Kickstarter
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