Gallery: This Sweet Music Maker Does Pretty Much Everything

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    Artiphon INSTRUMENT 1 Press 1

    The Artiphon Instrument 1 is a new breed of expressive digital instrument.
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    Artiphon INSTRUMENT 1 Press 3

    It looks like a digitized guitar neck, but can do way more. Depending on the accompanying app settings, it can produce music that sounds like a guitar, or a violin, or a piano, or a drum machine…or a synthesizer, or a ukulele, and so on.
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    Artiphon INSTRUMENT 1 Press 2

    Humans are believed to have created the first instruments some 42,000 years ago. Besides the synthesizer, which didn't come along until the 1960s, those instruments have remained fixed in function.
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    Artiphon INSTRUMENT 1 Press 10

    Artiphon wants to change that, by leveraging pressure-sensitive touchpads, sensors, and an array of apps.
  • Artiphon envisions the Instrument 1 offering a similar experience as the iPhone a piece of hardware than can be whatever...
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    Artiphon INSTRUMENT 1 Press 7

    Artiphon envisions the Instrument 1 offering a similar experience as the iPhone: a piece of hardware than can be whatever its user wants it to be in that moment.
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    Artiphon INSTRUMENT 1 Press 5

    Players can quickly jump between instruments, or even combine two at once, creating a brand new kind of sonic flexibility.
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