Hyve Synthesizer Hyve Touch Synth

The bottom half is arranged like a piano keyboard. Each key senses pressure, vertical position, and horizontal position. Moving vertically allows you to sweep through octaves and harmonically combine them into evolving tones. Horizontal movements push the sound right and left in stereo. Touching the bottom row causes a pressure-controlled pitch bend.

The top half uses a hexagon grid to put notes that sound good together right next to each other. Every adjacent note is harmonically related: straight up is a perfect 5th, up to the right is a major 3rd, and up to the left is a minor 3rd. This means that one finger can play a chord and slide to the next chord in the song. Each hexagon also senses pressure and horizontal position like the bottom half.

• Dimensions: 153mm x 127mm x 13mm (6" x 5" x 0.5")
• 60 note polyphony
• Responds to horizontal position, vertical position and pressure for each key
• Input: 9V DC 5.5mm barrel connector (7-18V input voltage compatible)
• Output: 3.5mm stereo headphone jack
• Extremely low power, average 15mA
• 10 SOIC ICs, 24 1206 resistors, 18 1206 Capacitors, 1 1206 diode, 12 trimpots, 2 connectors
• 40 hour battery life
• Available in DIY Hacker, Maker and assembled Premium editions