Some fun with the Striso

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  • Опубликовано: 18 дек 2024

Комментарии • 14

  • @Juliasblues
    @Juliasblues Год назад

    Absolutely my favourite, by far, so far. I know I Will listen over and over. Thank you for sharing.

  • @KevinPrice
    @KevinPrice 6 месяцев назад

    Very nice!

  • @ccaa7674
    @ccaa7674 Год назад +1

    It's interesting how there are more and more of these kind of synths coming out. I'm betting at some point in the future there will be a standard, kind of how the piano key layout are a standard.

    • @cgibbard
      @cgibbard  Год назад +3

      Wicki-Hayden is a brilliant layout. I feel like more people would, if not become musicians, at least engage with music on some level in their daily lives if this sort of keyboard were more commonplace. It's fun watching a non-musician's eyes light up when they touch my keyboard in Wicki-Hayden layout and realize that the random keys they hit sounded good together because they probably weren't too far apart. :)

  • @RememberGodHolyBible
    @RememberGodHolyBible 2 месяца назад

    For the best intonation you should make a video of it in Pythagorean tuning, that is true intonation.

  • @hydrogxn
    @hydrogxn Год назад +3

    how is the build quality? the wood looks perfect but will those little rubber pegs last? i heard they were made from dragon skin?

    • @cgibbard
      @cgibbard  Год назад +6

      The keys seem quite solid and durable for what they are, which is some sort of squishy rubbery material that makes them feel like jujubes. I could imagine having some sort of issue eventually, and I haven't been putting my instrument through very much daily use yet (though that's starting to change now), but after a couple of years, they haven't seemed to change all that much from when I got the thing, so it's not like they're drying out and cracking or anything.
      There had been a couple of keys where I could tell the interaction with the sensor underneath was not quite exactly the same as with the others, and I'd been getting double hits (two midi notes in rapid succession) on those when approaching them from certain directions until the newest firmware made it relatively easy to set thresholds. Adding a small bit of extra offset for key activation on those couple keys seems to have fixed it, so I'm pretty happy with it now.

  • @jessenebeker4942
    @jessenebeker4942 Год назад +3

    Is the Striso worth it? I want a cheap, portable lumatone alternative but I'm worried it wouldn't be very flexible with layouts

    • @cgibbard
      @cgibbard  Год назад +4

      I think with the newest firmware, it's getting quite good for what it is. If you don't want to play something pretty close to Wicki-Hayden, I'm not sure the square arrangement will be ideal, so might be good to think about. (But W-H is awesome imo.) It is a little narrow to really get everything that 31edo has to offer (well, obviously it's 19 notes wide), so if you were looking to do neutral stuff in 31, you might need to tweak it a bunch, but then again, you can also just bend to those notes like with a guitar.
      The new config editor lets you define tuning presets that can have an offset on every note, so it is possible to completely reprogram the entire thing, but the most straightforward way to define a layout just specifies the equivalence interval / size of the "octave" and the size of the "fifth" (which is to say, the intervals between keys that would be an octave and fifth in the usual W-H layout). That all uses MPE for tuning, which is usually pretty convenient, though I also haven't actually tried to edit the result on a piano roll.
      With the latest firmware, it's apparently also possible to set up presets that use "button" midi note mode (there's a post on the forum about this) which gives each key its own separate MIDI note number, and then you can do whatever you like in software to rearrange that MIDI. The firmware is also open source, so if you're a developer, there will be a way to make it do what you like, and Piers seems helpful on the forum when it comes to that.
      The hardware itself is pretty nice. Back when I got it initially, I had some trouble that I thought might just be the hardware, but apparently essentially all of my issues were caused by the early firmware, or at least fixed by later revisions.
      So I'm pretty happy overall, particularly now that it's working so nicely. It isn't cheap, but it is a lot cheaper than a Lumatone, and even has some advantages with the right synth.

  • @Lucius_Chiaraviglio
    @Lucius_Chiaraviglio Год назад

    Never saw this before -- lets you move your fingers sideways for expression.

  • @The_SOB_II
    @The_SOB_II Год назад

    is this supposed to be audible or

    • @The_SOB_II
      @The_SOB_II Год назад

      i fixed it with an Extsion

    • @cgibbard
      @cgibbard  Год назад +2

      It's at least audible for me. Starts a bit quiet, but by no means as soft as it could be.

  • @lovlibea85
    @lovlibea85 Год назад +2

    This is killing my bass engine