In our minds, including "sounds" with Lumatone would be a limitation. Sound is a very subjective thing. There are thousands of options on the market, each one as unique as the artists who seek them out.

Lumatone is a MIDI controller in a first-of-its-kind form factor. We made a very conscious decision to keep the Lumatone about how you play, and not how you sound. There are so many incredible sound-generating instruments and devices out there in the form of analog and digital synthesizers, virtual instruments, and more. By focusing on making Lumatone a controller capable of playing anything controllable by MIDI, it makes Lumatone a universally creative, playable, expressive instrument to control all of your sounds. It leaves the sounds you make with it up to you.

From our surveying, most of you seem to agree with us, as we’ve found that most Lumatone buyers would prefer the freedom to use it to control any sound-generator under the sun, rather than make it about an instrument that sounds like something. We'll always keep our minds open, but for now we're focused on creating the most unique, creative music controller around.