Making MIDI Music with the Yamaha TENORI-ON

http://live.pirillo.com - I have no musical ability or talent at all. It's not for lack of trying, I assure you. I love music, and I love creating music. Thanks to the person from the community who recommended this great new toy, I can do this easily! And... special thanks to Ponzi for getting me this for Christmas!

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[themattrobot]

HOLY SHIT ITS EXPENSIVE AS SHIT!

[SophomoricHumor]

its a little like matt bellamys kaoss pad, or a kaossilator. just wait till indie seattle bands get there their hands on this

[lpio27]

there is a game on xbox live its a indie game for like 80 microsoft points i think and its the same thing so yeah =]

[dougiepoolable]

"i have no musical talet or ability" what he lacks in that he makes up in talent with the laaaaadies awww yeah

[JacobCain86]

Jew music. jews got tired of cashing in on others. lol jk.

[supakiwibaby]

pretty nice tunes :)

[iUDods]

Damn! If I actually become a programmer or computer-specialist I'm gonna look just like that.

[elmaspison]

he made loops but nothing that sounds lika uuuuuuuuh aaaaaaaaahh. a monkey can do what he did. its nice to see people try to make music but very few will make a proper song with this controller. jusst because you learned to play the guitar it doesnt mean your good. you just know how to play the guitar.

[mech289]

Wow, you have to be the number one Jackass I seen on here all day.

[Dracopol]

I suggest you have a look at the Kaossilator and the Kaossilator Pro. You have to keep the beat yourself, but you can improvise and break the beat on a Kaossilator in a way you can't do with the time-locked Tenori-On. I've made a few vdeos with the small Kaossilator; see especially #5.

[Dracopol]

@LEG0B0Y MIDI is not a program, but a standard, a system of data notation for recording musical patterns. Music editors set down music and can store it in MIDI format. It is not actual notes, but the INSTRUCTIONS to make the notes. As a result, if you play a MIDI file on different instruments, they will sound different. Your computer can handle MIDI (but sounds on your computer's sound-card may be limited); there are instructions to "make a horn-like sound" but the computer horn might be bad.

[mokkshaa]

@constantyoutoober "One does not truly create music with this gadget"? Hmm, then what was that sequence of noises we heard in the video? Did Mozart "not truly create music" every time he stopped playing his piano for a second to write down the notes on a piece of paper? Just because the music is created non-traditionally - in real time and looped - it doesn't mean that music is not being created.

I've seen videos of people making BAD music on the Tenori-On, so the user is still important.