Unlike a traditional black-and-white keyboard, an Isomorphic keyboard puts the intervals between notes along a consistent axis that makes playing music far more intuitive. How does it do this? Any given chord shape, scale, or musical sequence has the "same shape" on the keyboard wherever it occurs – within a key, across keys, across octaves, and even across tunings.

While you can map Lumatone’s keys to any tuning in an infinite number of ways, the image to the right shows the most popular way to map a traditional 12-notes-per-octave tuning system (also known as 12-tet) on an isomorphic keyboard. You’ll notice that each note is repeated in a patterned way along multiple axises. This allows you to reach notes and make note combinations not usually possible on traditional keyboards, as well as play with more intuition, without overthinking what key you’re in or what shape makes your next chord.

The Isomorphic layout of the Lumatone is especially powerful for people who want to move beyond 12-notes-per-octave into microtonality and polychromatic music.

As powerful as this approach is for advanced and professional musicians and composers, it’s also just as powerful for people learning music. Because chord and scale shapes never change, newcomers to music will find themselves playing more intuitively, moving their fingers with what they hear in their head, without needing to know all that much about music theory.