First and foremost, Lumatone is Isomorphic. To learn why Isomorphic layouts are an exciting new way to perform music, read our article "What Makes an Isomorphic Keyboard Special?"
Beyond its Isomorphic personality, Lumatone also offers up a whole new way to visualize and interact with music. There hasn’t been an instrument to this point that combined the intuitive power of customizable colour with the long key-travel of a traditional keyboard. While there are many universal controllers out there that consist of small colour-changing squares that you smack with your fingers, they don’t feel like keys. Lumatone brings you the benefits of mapping tunings and layouts with colour, while retaining that musical, expressive feeling of a keyboard key. Combining this with a large grid of smaller hexagonal keys means you can find and reach more notes than ever before, while still expressing yourself in a familiar way.
Lumatone is also infinitely programmable, and when you’ve got 280 keys, you’ve got a lot of options! For example, in a performance scenario, you can assign any region of Lumatone to control any number of virtual instruments via MIDI. So while the first 56 keys might be controlling a drum machine, the next 112 could be controlling an organ, the next 56 might be assigned to a Mellotron, and the final 56 could be routed to an analog synthesizer. All of this happens within one beautiful instrument, assignable down to any amount of individual keys. And then, through the power of colour, you can identify what is what, making performance a breeze.
On top of this, you have the ability to make any one of Lumatone’s 280 keys a continuous controller. Each key has a sensor capable of reading key position at an incredibly fast rate. This means that if you’ve set a certain key to act as a continuous controller instead of a standard note on/off key, you can use it to control any MIDI CC parameter such as volume, expression, dynamic, filter cutoff, resonance, breath control, and many more. Or, set up a custom CC parameter in your virtual instrument or synthesizer. And of course, you can identify this key with any colour you want. When combined with the now standard pitch and mod wheels, Lumatone becomes an all-in-one performance powerhouse.
Lumatone’s keys are also capable of something that is very sought after in modern keyboards: polyphonic aftertouch. Each key can send aftertouch information individually, opening up a much wider range of expressive possibilities.
Combine all of these features with the intuitiveness of Lumatone’s Isomorphic layout, and it all adds up to a brand new, inspiring way to perform and compose music.
