Thanks everyone for your interest and feedback on the Chromaplane ❤ To be amongst the first ones to know details about availability and pricing, you can now follow our Kickstarter project here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/komaelektronik/chromaplane-an-electromagnetic-musical-instrument

At the first glance the Chromaplane is ticking alllll the boxes.

I noticed that quite a few people in the comment stream question the musicality/design choices of this instrument. With something like this, I think the band/designers/manufacturers behind the instrument know that not everyone will get it; it's not for everybody and that's fine. To those who question the musicality of this instrument, or wonder what it might offer that a more traditional keyboard synth can't, I would encourage you to spend some time listening to the group behind this instrument, Passepartout Duo. Their performances with the chromaplane are charming, hypnotic, and very musical. I will also go out on a limb and defend the choice to use the little screwdriver for tuning the instrument. I think it works design-wise to have no knobs, but I also think it wouldn't be especially difficult or impractical to tune this way. I guess I have confidence in my ears/tuning ability, but it just doesn't seem like it would be an issue - it actually seems like it would be kind of fun.

Will there be a firmware update to add a defibrillator function?

@atomictraveller

Ай бұрын

aww, you don't know about heterodyning at the masonic lodge to make all the animal activists go insane from all the MK no one seems to mind so you can buy plastic at the store. hey free west papua buddy amd i mean free!

@AnalogueRecall

23 күн бұрын

JEez man, I nearly spit my coffee out 😂

It's giving BBC Radiophonic Workshop

@christdolphin69

26 күн бұрын

The world will be a very cool place once we’re all communicating only in black homos_xual drag queen Ebonic colloquialisms

@weareallbeingwatched4602

15 күн бұрын

Exactly what I thought- analogue is crisp and rich in overtones and resonanes

Very interesting concept. I like the tagline "An instrument for daydreaming" beautiful work

@morbidmanmusic

Ай бұрын

Don't need to spend money to daydream.

@IwatoHyena

29 күн бұрын

@@morbidmanmusicQuite true. I have always been an ardent admirer of "experimental" instruments; however, it is often challenging to discern what constitutes a mere gimmick versus genuine innovation. Nonetheless, I am certain that this will command a considerable investment.

this is thinking outside the box! Love it!

We live in such an exciting time

@Treeoftwo

29 күн бұрын

No we don‘t

Talking to Nicoletta and Chris and trying their instrument was the highlight of Superbooth for me. Congratulations for this beautiful design.

@PassepartoutDuo

29 күн бұрын

Thank you sooo much!! It was so nice to connect with so many people those days :)

Yeeeey! Had the honour to have them play this at my place a few years ago, if you see what passepartout duo do with it your jaw will drop. So proud of you two and so excited for this!!!

@PassepartoutDuo

29 күн бұрын

aw, thank you so much!! It's one of our most cherished memories from that trip! :D

I need to make some ambient with this thing

@G.Man-

25 күн бұрын

Looking forward to the video 😉

Wow!magic!!!

Sounds beautiful. Amazingly innovative.

Sounds sick! Plus you have a couple of those 90's phone taps as the pickups, awesome!

I have to say, this is both beautiful and creative. I would love to just sit down and play with one of these. It just feels like it would be such a zen experience.

A perfect instrument, perplexing, inviting, and it sounds like gorgeous. I look forward to more from this company.✨

I have NEVER wanted an instrument as badly as I want this ONE!!!

Welcome back with another crazy and awesome device!

Simply beautiful 🤩

This is 🔥

Sounds amazing!

Wow! This is actually pretty brilliant, and would be perfect for my film scoring work! I’ve got a new movie I’m going to start working on soon, would love to give this a try on it…

Smart idea.

This is awesome and certainly can be musical in a standard context. Tune each one to the usual notes and now you can glide between them. It'll just take skill like with any other instrument.

Sick!

Wow, this is like a physical Reaktor instrument! Experimental and creative.

Wild.

Would be very cool to have crossmod between the oscillators too !

amazing

what a beauty!

Otherworldly

Musically seen i love where the future is going❤

This is so goddamn cool

this is awesome !!! if yall need play testers im in ❤🙏🙃

Wow what a wonderful invention ✨🪐🎶

Love it

Mom, why is that man playing doctor with a laptop?

@atomictraveller

Ай бұрын

doctors are fancy peepull

The second synthesizer, besides Vlad Kreimer's work, that arouses my interest and works with magnetic fields. Very nice.

That three-note maneuver after "polyphonic" at 0:40 is niiiice.

that's really cool

I think the idea of electro magnetic interference and magnetic field projection would be where the really cool things are found but…. These are just guesses

Crazy Insane greatness!!!!

tres cool !

I can't wait to see what kind of mods people come up with.

Cool as f... wish list!

looks Ike my MacBook Pro but sounds better !

I need that

Whoa.

Yep, 21st century instruments are getting really evolved. Novel interfaces are blooming. It's going to be a really interesting decade...

@d3tuned378

Ай бұрын

TBH this stuff was possible in the 40's, there was just no drive to make it. music instrument innovation has been stale for a long time until electronics got involved

@longline

Ай бұрын

@@d3tuned378 You are 100% correct. Products, instruments as products are refining a lot of obvious things into packages at the moment. And there seems to be a market pushing product manufacturers to play with the available parameters more. Which I think is nice....

@atomictraveller

Ай бұрын

if it's visible, it's a lodge member for sure. sincerely, xoxos. that genius vst developer you're not allowed to hear about.

@ChannelOfElveman

29 күн бұрын

This is basically a variation of 1920s' theremin

@ennayanne

28 күн бұрын

it's a bunch of theramins in a box

Didn't even get to the Chromaplane main event as a 3min 20sec advert of some bloke showing off his physique was too much to bear. 3 minutes and 20 seconds for an advert?!?! Holy smoke. Adblocker failing. I'll try again later....

I'd love a device that gets modulated by the amount of alcohol one exhales on it. There could be another track for how much THC crystals are on the fingers, how long till last time one brushed their teeth, etc.

WHEN HOW MUCH !!!! !!!! !!!!!

Very excited for this! When does the kickstarter launch?

@PassepartoutDuo

28 күн бұрын

Soon to be announced!

Really cool. Not for me but glad it exists. It's giving star trek type beats.

Are those dots visible on a dark stage?

@TylerInTraining

29 күн бұрын

Good point, I assume there’s some kind of paint or sticker that could be put on it for a frame of reference. Guitar pickups can be painted after all.

@riccardoborretti6985

26 күн бұрын

External Input will have a red LED when something is plugged, maybe we can work on somthing for it :))

I want one right away! Approximate cost? ❤

I'll own this one day. Hopefully it will be available in the U.S. sooner than later.

wowwwwww never seen omethin like this

@gabrielreinert8458

Ай бұрын

Actually, Soma is the specialist in these kind of synths. Just now, they released a synth far more expressive, powerful, beautiful and ... wireless pickup-coils

@atomictraveller

Ай бұрын

are you from west papua? because thank god someone is actually good at music eh despite all the genocide eh.

Love the concept, my only concern is, how large does the field go and can it affect other devices like a PC's SSD?

@jimbotron70

28 күн бұрын

SSDs are unaffected by magnetism.

Haha. Fun!

Price?

@dengyun846

Ай бұрын

I hope they don't go too low, and allow room in the budget for build quality improvements to keep the thing from looking used after six years of use. Definitely a balance though.

Wonderful tactile evolution...but the screwdriver bit was a headscratcher as it limits live performance use

@adeniranbalthazar5700

Ай бұрын

yeah, I was thinking to myself "why not use knobs, potenciometers or something like it?"

Finally, LIRA-9

It should come with glove you wear

@DiegoSynth

Ай бұрын

And no screws to tune, but knobs. And notes printed on the top plate. And...

@Gluttonite

Ай бұрын

@@DiegoSynthYes... Yes

@lovedeathdisco

Ай бұрын

start soldering!

@adeniranbalthazar5700

Ай бұрын

@@DiegoSynth Exactly. I hope this is still just a prototype and that they're paying attention to the comments here, because they sure could leverage some standard interface practices that would only make the experience better

Yo this is super cool, and I'd like to get the v2 you will inevitably be forced to make with knobs instead of adjustment screws. You can't possibly expect us to keep a screwdriver on our desks to tune this thing, can you? Who's bright idea was that?

So cool! .. Was kind of hoping to see how it sounded if you ran a hairdrier or power tools close to it ;)

@jbachman01

Ай бұрын

Cell phone interference

If only pink floyd had gotten this in the 70s

@spiralmoment

27 күн бұрын

They had a vcs3, which is so much cooler than this.

@rg.drenas16

27 күн бұрын

@@spiralmoment true but I can rlly imagine what Richard would do with this

Take up the stethoscope and walk.

Basically, a portable theremin. Nothing new but still really cool

@Ratimus_

28 күн бұрын

In what way is this like a theremin?

@harrysmith5340

4 сағат бұрын

Nothing like a theramin at all

Ah so this is how I fix the wife's macbook!

Might be cool in a guitar form. Looked at some stingless guitars and they don't seem too good, idk instruments very well though.

Looks terrific. For peak esoteric desire, wedge it inside a tree trunk and license it to soma. The tuna (sic) is lovely too!

🧲🧲🧲

Can I cook pancakes on it?

@PassepartoutDuo

Ай бұрын

only one time...

Недоделка, если бы на этом синтезе были бы нарисованы ноты, октавы, а так на ощупь играть .

Price? Kind of an important detail. At least ballpark it.

@AdamsOlympia

Ай бұрын

$999 just a wild guess. though it'd be more tempting if it was closer to 666

You should put a visual interface and reference points over it.

Just take my money already… maybe

yeah,but what about the screwdriver?do you include the screwdriver as well?

Nice concept, interesting realization, I'm a bit afraid of the "one trick pony syndrome". Since I suppose tuning are not recallable maybe limited for live situations ?

It’s unique but I probably won’t buy something where I need a screw driver handy for tuning. Just make it a knob.

@MrMattmoffett

29 күн бұрын

So much this. Would be amazing, if those weren't screws. How they thought people would just want to set and forget the oscillator tuning is beyond me.

2024: Tuning with screwdriver??? ... perhaps you're trying to beat the fastest dealbreaker world record while prototyping an interesting and innovative device? ... make the plate smaller and add a tiny lowered strip with 9 trimmers or something digital with touch contact

Interesting but I suspect the price to be too high for what it offers in functionality. Especially that hand tuning stuff is too archaic to be true. Nothing wrong with fashionable boutique minimalism but in the real world every instrument offering poly aftertouch runs circles around it. An A for sympathetic quirkiness though. 😁

Lol, suction cup Radio Shack contact mic phone recorders live again!

@sambac2053 0 seconds ago One won’t be able to reliably see those dots under stage conditionds

Or you could just play a synth/keyboard which is infinitely more useful for writing music.

You look like you're wiping your waxy earbuds all over your laptop.

screws =| huh. that doesn''t sound.. practical?

Now if only we could make some keys that you can see, there could be 88 of them and maybe even be white and black so we know where the sharp notes are. That way we could make like music or something??? Idk...

Behringer's rip off will be rubbish

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I guess, if your definition of instrument is "Haaae kids, did you know ANYTHING can be an instrument??", then it's an instrument. Otherwise, it's just equipment. This is an instrument, the way that an arpeggiator is an instrument. Do what you want to do; it's fine. But don't If you can't produce the full range of notes, and do so intentionally, you're not playing an instrument, you're just playing with equipment.

2 RadioShack handset phone recorders........

i get repetitive motion injuries just by looking at it...and only 2 pickups what a reduction no more triadic drones I am sorry but this kind of poverty is not desirable

@Nobddy

Ай бұрын

3:30 shows her using more than 2

@VladyYakovenko

Ай бұрын

I have RSI already moving hands in the air looks easier than pushing buttons. Very interested in this instruments

@rycrump

Ай бұрын

Aren’t there tons of monophonic and duophonic synths?

A gimmick for the man bun brigade.

I don't know i like Koma a lot but this is so uninspiring

Well, at least it isn't a few hundred dollars. Still too much for what it is, but cheap enough for fun. This ad actually un-sells it through the narration text. Bad sales.