jefftheworld wrote:

just an average musician who knows how to play flight of the bumble bee.

the average musician can't play flight of the bumblebee, that's not an average kind of  song..................

OH SHIT REALLY THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING

just an average musician who knows how to play flight of the bumble bee.

the average musician can't play flight of the bumblebee, that's not an average kind of  song..................

I like the idea of a chiptune keyboard with arps chords and stuff, but i'm not to keen on this design from a practical point of view. The again, I don't even like playing a computer keyboard musically. I much prefer piano keys. Arcade buttons for music just doesn't seem practical. Then again, perhaps a person  able to pull off a 100-hit combo would be well-equipped to to use this instrument efficiently.

The look does seem a bit gimmicky, and reeks of "didn't do the research" in terms of designing something that "forward-thinking" chiptune artists would respect, as you can see from above comments. I do find it ironic that people would see using new hardware with video-game controls as completely different from using old hardware with video game controls.

But I suppose this isn't designed for chiptuners, but for non-chiptuners who want to make nasty authentic chipped square-wave sounds without having to do it the old fashioned way.

I personally have no hate for the arcadey design. It looks fun. I'd definitely use it if I got one for free. And the midi would make it cool for hooking up to other consoles, making it more of a pre-built DiY arcade midi controller, what? Nobody hates DiY arcade button controllers, right? But I guess it's bad if it's actually made into a product...

pianocade

... for a moment i forgot that chiptunes was nothing more than cheap exploitation of video games nostalgia

hate this sooooOOOo much

This.

hate this sooooOOOo much

jefftheworld wrote:

The arcade buttons are actually surprisingly comfortable. I guess that's because I have experience with both keyboards and arcade machines.

However, for those of you who don't have experience with arcade hardware I saw a classical pianist step up to the Pianocade and he had no trouble playing Flight of the Bumblebee. This isn't someone involved in the project who'd been practicing all day long,  it was just a average musician.

just an average musician who knows how to play flight of the bumble bee

Compared to musicians who use hexadecimal tables to make music, yes.

I didn't mean average in terms of skill, I suppose the word "traditional" would have been better suited.

classical pianist

The arcade buttons are actually surprisingly comfortable. I guess that's because I have experience with both keyboards and arcade machines.

However, for those of you who don't have experience with arcade hardware I saw a classical pianist step up to the Pianocade and he had no trouble playing Flight of the Bumblebee. This isn't someone involved in the project who'd been practicing all day long,  it was just a average musician.

just an average musician who knows how to play flight of the bumble bee

thanks so much for chiming in to this thread!  we love talking to the brains

My pleasure! I'm happy to answer any questions.

To be fair, he was hardly AVERAGE: dude could play any song I called out. "Rhapsody in Blue?" "How's that go again? Oh yeah!" <plays it perfectly>. I got his contact info, I'm going to have him do a demo video as soon as our schedules line up.

The arcade buttons are actually surprisingly comfortable. I guess that's because I have experience with both keyboards and arcade machines.

However, for those of you who don't have experience with arcade hardware I saw a classical pianist step up to the Pianocade and he had no trouble playing Flight of the Bumblebee. This isn't someone involved in the project who'd been practicing all day long,  it was just a average musician.

Well that's refreshing to hear.