OH SHIT REALLY THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING

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

I'm not feeling the button width. Seems like it'd be awkward to do a simple major chord.

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...

This.

ant1&2'd!

well i say cheap but it's $300

heh, for a moment i forgot that chiptunes were nothing more than songs with square waves in them / heh, for a moment i forgot that chiptunes was nothing more than cheap exploitation of video games nostalgia

hate this sooooOOOo much

I'm not sure how using hexadecimal tables to make music is relevant to his ability to play this instrument, though. I think it looks kind of awkward still, but I'd like to see a video of a skilled player have a try on this.

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.

You record some close-up demo videos of that guy playing it! I must say that the feature presentation video was kind of uninspiring, and the guy playing it live wasn't bad but it wasn't very interesting from a demo point of view.

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

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.

Well that's refreshing to hear.