This video has a description of Kuensa and a demonstration of some of the current capabilities:
The main idea with Kuensa is to have a convenient tool for portable music making and practising. Part of the plan was to make the device as distraction free as possible, thus allowing someone to concentrate on the playing rather rather have hundreds of features intruding into the mental image.
I get caught into trying to squeeze as much out of the text display and tactile buttons, but so far, it's decently usable. I really enjoy the idea of just turning on and jamming away, rather than boot up a computer, load software and suffer from all the other computer things without much musical productivity.
Features which are available so far:
- Play, Stop and Record on multiple tracks (but record only one track at a time)
- Load, Save songs
- Metronome with tempo adjustment
- Mute tracks
- Configure track instruments (so far this is in a config file)
- Beat counter on the display
- MIDI monitor via LED
- MIDI serial I/O for connecting to other sound devices
Other sequencer features are also under consideration, but I would not want to veer too far from the current simplicity and fun factor.
Juan Flores
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