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An ongoing investigation into bringing the worlds of harmony, music production and performance together

Introducing DreamGenerator! 📸✨A camera that transforms your photos into something new using the power of generative AI.Choose from 30 prompts, capture, and watch as your image morphs into a one-of-a-kind masterpiece right before your eyes! 🧵 pic.twitter.com/NJMxQ09Rna— Kyle Goodrich (@_kylegoodrich) July 18, 2023

THE MIDI ASSOCIATION, a global community of people who work, play and create with MIDI and the central repository of information about anything related to MIDI.

“I've submitted the Abacusynth to this year's MIDI Innovation awards! Vote for your top 3 here (hardware prototypes category) 👉 https://t.co/gHB3L7lrDT #abacusynth #midi #midiawards”

My new development setup:A Yoga Book 9i dual screen laptop running emacs, with a Vortex Core 40% keyboard pic.twitter.com/ptI4JP6xGx— Conrad Barski (@lisperati) June 20, 2023

Shoutout to this magical device that heats up mosquito bites really hot and denatures the proteins that make them itchy pic.twitter.com/W1IOkm9aNy— Christina Agapakis 🪵 (@thisischristina) June 19, 2023

At the 2020 NAMM Show, Lumatone launched their namesake MIDI controller, the Lumatone. Tonnetz The Lumatone features 275 illuminated, velocity-sensitive hexagonal keys. Each key has an individually programmable MIDI note and LED color, so you can use a variety of scale arrangements and MIDI mappings. They plan to produce 200 of the controllers later this year, via an IndieGoGo campaign. From Synthtopia's 2020 NAMM Show coverage: https://www.synthtopia.com/content/tag/2020-namm-show/

New ways of playing chords tonnetz

Beepberry by SQFMI x Beeper

Discover the innovative Spinn Coffee Maker, the Spinn App, and the world's largest coffee marketplace. Order now for a free home trial.

designed to clip onto common reading glasses, monocle is a pocket-sized AR wearable for 'modification and hacking'.

Free shipping. 30-day/150 brew trial. Ships in 3-5 business days. The original super automatic espresso machine.

Evening relaxation at the HP 9872C plotter. A multicolor plot from HP 8568B. pic.twitter.com/n1AeUnppO6— Bosco (@BoscoMac) May 5, 2023

Next-gen standalone expressive synthesizer. Add emotion & movement to your music with a simple touch.

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Choose your Altar.

Empowering coffee lovers to discover their preferred tastes and design their daily rituals on the Terra Kaffe super automatic espresso machine.

Take your lab wherever you go. The mobile genomics setup. Combines centrifuge, PCR, and gel visualisation. Portable and ready-to-go.

An integrated electrophoresis and visualization system by miniPCR bio, GELATO™ blends gel electrophoresis with a blue light transilluminator.

SMUSSLA Bedside table/shelf unit, white This small and affordable piece of furniture is a loyal bedside buddy which can change shape and grow with your child – from storage to bedside table and into a shelf unit by the desk. The bedside table/shelf is easy to assemble.

Arguably the most stylish foldable e-bike on the market. Powerful, smart and robust, with the ability to transition effortlessly across a range of different terrains. Experience the freedom of future-facing design with MATE.

“RGB Machine Hardware Design: @PiecalPaullen Hardware Production: Tadashi Baba (weed.s) Motion / Interaction / Surface Panel / Electrical Design: me Graphics and Concept: YOSHIROTTEN Sound Design: TAKAKAHN Technical Consultant: @tettou771”

We’ve seen a gazillion startups using OpenAI APIs to do “co-pilot for X”. What’s next?Enter *physical* co-pilot! Here’s a compelling demo: you improvise by playing a “low resolution” piano, and the co-pilot compiles it real-time to Hi-Fi music! It unleashes our inner pianist.🧵 pic.twitter.com/wQEch37mi5— Jim Fan (@DrJimFan) February 13, 2023

To celebrate the Kickstarter for Shift Happens going well, I thought I would show you 50 keyboards from my collection of really strange/esoteric/meaningful keyboards that I gathered over the years. (It might be the world’s strangest keyboard collection!) pic.twitter.com/Ama42xEqqE— Marcin Wichary (@mwichary) February 12, 2023

Monomachine SFX-60

Keycaps and keyboards designed by @maxvoltar.

I just got my hands on the new Snackbox Micro Lite, and while it’s lovely to be able to play fighting games on an actual production-quality piece of hardware compared to my potato-grade prototypes, it really hammers home for me how much my homebuilt split layout rocks pic.twitter.com/7hqnWnj4QD— emilia ✨ (parody) (@lazerwalker) February 6, 2023