Kibo is a MIDI bluetooth musical instrument made of solid maple wood, with a modular keyboard consisting of eight distinct, easy-to-recognize magnetic shapes that control different musical parameters.

Kibo is a MIDI bluetooth musical instrument made of solid maple wood, with a modular keyboard consisting of eight distinct, easy-to-recognize magnetic shapes that control different musical parameters.

The keyboard offers two types of musical interaction: inserting or extracting modules allows to combine musical loops, activating or silencing the parts of an arrangement; percussion lets you play melodies, rhythms and compose chords like a traditional musical instrument.

The keyboard offers two types of musical interaction:

inserting or extracting modules allows to combine musical loops, activating or silencing the parts of an arrangement;

percussion lets you play melodies, rhythms and compose chords like a traditional musical instrument.

The magnetic shapes can be stacked like a totem and used as a tangible score, in which the order of the figures determines the playlist of musical loops.
The “totem” is an effective solution for non-verbal communication in the context of cognitive and perceptual dysfunctions.

The magnetic shapes can be stacked like a "totem" and used as a tangible score, in which the order of the figures determines the playlist of musical loops. The “totem” is an effective solution for non-verbal communication in the context of cognitive and perceptual dysfunctions.

Kibo features an eight-voice polyphonic keyboard with dynamic response. The high-sensitivity keys perceive the lightest and most vigorous pressures, expressing all musical colors, from “pianissimo” to “fortissimo”.

Kibo features an eight-voice polyphonic keyboard with dynamic response.
The high-sensitivity keys perceive the lightest and most vigorous pressures, expressing all musical colors, from pianissimo to fortissimo.

By attributing a musical meaning to the forms, an alternative notation system is implicitly introduced, allowing to define a series of actions to be performed, freeing from music theory and facilitating the use of the instrument for users with special needs, children and people without musical skills.

By attributing a musical meaning to the forms, an alternative notation system is implicitly introduced, allowing to define a series of actions to be performed, freeing from music theory and facilitating the use of the instrument for users with special needs, children and people without musical skills.

The keyboard layout sets up two main patterns for building all fundamental chords, regardless of the scale. The example refers to the C major scale and shows some of the chords that can be obtained by translating or reversing the "L" and "V" patterns.

The keyboard layout sets up two main patterns for building all fundamental chords, regardless of the scale.
The example refers to the C major scale and shows some of the chords that can be obtained by translating or reversing the L and V patterns.

The interactions are translated into music by a dedicated App, which allows you to define the main parameters of the instrument such as tune, scale, sound, octave and establish relationships between shape, position and musical meaning..

The interactions are translated into music by a dedicated App, which allows you to define the main parameters of the instrument such as tune, scale, sound, octave and establish relationships between shape, position and musical meaning.

The App integrates innovative multiplayer features developed with our innovative technology called "R_PLAY", to facilitate the overall musical activity, allowing you to coordinate a group session with a single mobile device, locally and soon even remotely, offering for the first time the real opportunity to play together in a simple and intuitive way from anywhere in the world.

The App integrates innovative multiplayer features developed with our innovative technology called R_PLAY, to facilitate the overall musical activity, allowing you to coordinate a group session with a single mobile device, locally and soon even remotely, offering for the first time the real opportunity to play together in a simple and intuitive way from anywhere in the world.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Wooden MIDI BLE controller with removable pads
Support iOS / Android / OSX / Windows / Linux
8 voice polyphony
CPU ARM® Cortex™ 32-bit

high sensitive magnetic pads with full velocity
1 infinite rotary encoder with switch
Class compilant device (no driver)
You can use it while charging

15 meters of bluetooth range
6ms of Bluetooth latency
Li-Po 1000mah (up to 40 Hours)
Micro USB connection (MIDI OUT and power)

Supported by any digital audio workstation
App Kodaly included (iOS)
Dimension L210mm W297mm H32mm
Weight 0,7 Kg