PolyChromatic Music with the Lumatone

Exploring musical possibilities with the Lumatone keyboard. The polychromatic system integrates easily with the color implementation of this new MIDI controller. The Lumatone can also be split and programmed with multiple tunings and varieties of iso/polymorphic, colorized layouts!

An analogy is a painter’s selection of palette colors to mix within a work, as well as the ease of selecting unique color palettes for each composition. The polychromatic system is an attempt to create a simple framework with flexible assignments of pitch-color, relative to any tuning method, being built upon a consistent rainbow color series from (infra/flat) red to (ultra/sharp) violet. This makes transitions to different pitch-palettes easier for musicians and dovetails well with standard music and tab notation.

The Lumatone is based on a modified Terpstra design (circa 1980’s) which is, to my eyes, a variant of the Wilson layout (circa 1970’s) with the added innovation of a cascade key design (hex keys gradually ascend in height from front to back). The Lumatone design has further implemented per hex key LED color, Note# and Channel# assignment, velocity sensitivity, and has capacity for added firmware functionality like aftertouch implementation, as its keys can also render continuous control (MIDI CC) messages in addition to note on/off.

Lumatone keyboard: http://www.lumatone.io
Universal Tuning Editor: https://hpi.zentral.zone/ute

PolyChromatic system: https://polychromaticmusic.com/

More information:
Siemen Terpstra: http://siementerpstra.com/
Erv Wilson: http://anaphoria.com/wilson.html
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