What is QuNeo?
QuNeo is a different species of pad controller for electronic musicians, DJs, VJs and DIY hackers. While it covers all of the functionality of other pad controllers, QuNeo adds the power of touch recognition in other dimensions.
Tactile Pads, Sliders, Rotary Sensors and Switches
Each of the 27 pads, sliders and rotary sensors are pressure, velocity, and location sensitive. Even the 17 switches respond to how hard you press.
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Progress Report Update (12-02-11) - Drum Pad and Grid Function
Grid: QuNeo will work like Monome and Novation controllers by providing 64 notes with pressure and multi-color LEDs.
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Progress Report Update (11-29-11) - QuNeo Circuit Boards
LED Light Feedback
A remarkable lumination scheme combines variably diffusive elastomers with 251 multi-color LEDs providing visual feedback that is immediately responsive and delightfully informative. Man and machine are coupled through light, feel and sound.
Trigger Pads
16 square pads provide 127 levels of Velocity response. And X-Y location. And continuous pressure. For each pad. Times sixteen.
Rotary Sensors
2 rotary sensors allow you to scrub, trigger, stretch, pinch and play phrases and sound files, manipulate continuous controllers and more . Each rotary sensor measures angle, pressure and distance from the center.
Multi-touch Sliders
9 touch sensitive sliders can be mapped to fader and effects controls. LEDs within each slider act as VU meters or remind you where you were. Multi-touch lets you select a length between two fingers to set stereo locations or filter resonances. Tapping a slider can mute or toggle any track or function.
Switches
The switches are located in smart groupings to select samples, fader banks, and transport controls. Each of the switches can scan up and down through files at speeds variable with your touch. Great for quickly locating that perfect fill or telling your looper you really meant it.
The Size of an iPad.
QuNeo is the size of an iPad and can fit in iPad accessories such as mic clips, stands and more.
Class Compliant and Open Source Development Kit
QuNeo works with USB, MIDI or OSC and will communicate with your favorite music software environments right out of the box. More advanced users and programmers can use the development kit and API to create their own code to respond to QuNeo's sensor data. Hack away to control your world in ways never before possible!
We are asking for your support on KickStarter to put QuNeo into production.
QuNeo is fully designed and prototyped and will perfectly compliment SoftStep and 12 Step, our innovative foot controllers currently on the market. We are reaching out to you on Kickstarter to raise the funds for tooling and production to make QuNeo available ASAP. As a thank you for your support, we will happily send you one of our wonderful rewards, including this limited edition sticker.
Artist Endorsements
We are already creating a buzz amongst musicians, DJs, visual artists and engineers who have seen the prototypes, check out what they had to say...
Thavius Beck: "Uh, hell yes I'm down. I can imagine all kinds of ways to play with this...I'm on board."
ill.Gates: "That thing looks awesome! I'm already a huge fan of Softstep. Count me in!"
Richard Devine: "Wow this controller looks amazing."
Vernon Reid: "This is VERY exciting to me! I'm happy to be part of the launch of what looks to be an outstanding new product....I already want one!"
Strangeloop: "This looks EXACTLY like what I'm looking for, I've been abandoning Midi controllers left and right, would Love to find something more expressive. Preferably before I go on tour with Erykah Badu :)"
Dose One: "I have always struggled to find technology that truly allows me to PLAY electronics... it is utterly exciting that Keith McMillen and company are making controllers that allow musicians to indeed PLAY their computer made music with the attention to detail that an obsessive musician can revel in."
Tim Blake-Hawkwind: "You may well have produced the so badly needed "buttons" for the Virtual Synth set up at last!"
Laura Escude, Violinist/Composer/Music Technologist for Kanye West, Cirque du Soleil: “I am so beyond freaking excited to get my hands on QuNeo. A few years back when I worked at M-Audio I lusted after the elusive Surface One which unfortunately never materialized to the masses. QuNeo looks to take this concept to the stratosphere. As a Soft Step and 12 Step user, I know that Keith McMillen’s new product will be similarly portable, aesthetically pleasing and revolutionary.”
Sincerely,
Keith McMillen, and the whole KMI team (Andrew, Jon, Tom, Rasheedah, Sarah, Diane, Conner, Barry, Carson, Matt, Dan, and Chuck).
About Keith McMillen Instruments: Keith McMillen has been a pioneer in electronic and computer music for over 30 years. His instruments and inventions have been used by artists like Laurie Anderson, Bob Weir and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, Boyd Tinsley of Dave Matthews Band, Jean Luc Ponty, John Fogerty and Kronos Quartet. Keith invented the first programmable audio mixer, the Zeta violin (the gold standard for electric stringed instruments), K-Bow, the worlds first bluetooth sensor bow, SoftStep, 12 Step, StringPort and Batt-O-Meter.
Learn more about KMI by reading this company profile written by the Bay Area News Group.
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