You’re never too old or too young to experience the awesome feeling of playing an instrument and creating music. Inspired by the HandPans family of acoustic instruments, the Oval design can be as simple for a beginner to start exploring music as a means of expression, or as complex as a professional musician wants to make it, as it allows you to change sounds and scales, layer samples, real time looping and go wherever the imagination takes you.
It speeds up your music learning curve by leveraging the power of technology, gaming and sharing with others. Most traditional instruments are linear, think of a guitar, a flute or a violin. The HandPan is meant to be performed in circles. The interface doesn’t have a beginning or an end, so you can join musical notes together in a fluid way. The notes have a radial position and are equidistant from the Ding, the central note that sets the tone of the scale. It allows you to both change and create sounds and it is also a tool for sharing your compositions with an on-line community of users.
Key Features Include:
- Limitless sound: Play any sound you can imagine whilst connected to your smartphone or tablet.
- Compatibility: The OVAL works via an App but you can also use any MIDI compatible software.
- Boost your creativity: designing your own sounds, scales and songs. Create your own compositions and use the App’s live-performance mode – it has been specifically designed to get the most out of your Oval.
The external case is made of Solid Surface composed by natural materials –minerals like bauxite, marble and quartz–, natural resins and acrylic.
- Carefully designed, the Oval is light, portable, durable, minimal, simple and energetically self-sufficient.
- The OVAL is ergonomically designed and can be played in many ways. Highly sensitive, intuitive, easy, durable and (children-proof) resistant!
- Multi Sensing Pad with velocity and X/Y location.
- Pressure sensitive sensors for higher expression control, more organic sound, and complex possibilities such as using multiple layers of samples.
- Illuminated PADS provide visual cues for follow along mode, metronome mode, and musical games.
- Through OVAL website and community you’ll be able to download tutorials, share your sounds and compositions and compare your progress with others.
OVAL is the first Spanish Kickstarter campaign to launch and it exceeded its funding goal in less than two days. Backers can pre-order one for €499 (future retail price €599).
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Oval – A Smart Musical Instrument for Everyone Now On Kickstarter
You’re never too old or too young to experience the awesome feeling of playing an instrument and creating music. Inspired by the HandPans family of acoustic instruments, the Oval design can be as simple for a beginner to start exploring music as a means of expression, or as complex as a professional musician wants to make it, as it allows you to change sounds and scales, layer samples, real time looping and go wherever the imagination takes you.
It speeds up your music learning curve by leveraging the power of technology, gaming and sharing with others. Most traditional instruments are linear, think of a guitar, a flute or a violin. The HandPan is meant to be performed in circles. The interface doesn’t have a beginning or an end, so you can join musical notes together in a fluid way. The notes have a radial position and are equidistant from the Ding, the central note that sets the tone of the scale. It allows you to both change and create sounds and it is also a tool for sharing your compositions with an on-line community of users.
Key Features Include:
The external case is made of Solid Surface composed by natural materials –minerals like bauxite, marble and quartz–, natural resins and acrylic.
OVAL is the first Spanish Kickstarter campaign to launch and it exceeded its funding goal in less than two days. Backers can pre-order one for €499 (future retail price €599).
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