Artiphon has opened reservations for its Instrument 1 – a handcrafted instrument built around an iPhone brain.
Here’s a new demo of the Instrument 1 in action:
Here’s Artiphon’s announcement:
The INSTRUMENT 1 has been in quiet development for two years by a team of experts here in Nashville, Tennessee. We are pleased to announce that our first limited-production, hand-built batch will be available for purchase this summer. To ensure you can own one of these special first units, we are offering a reservation program in anticipation of general sales to follow. Customers who reserve will receive advance notification of the on-sale date, at which point they will have a period of time to buy before the general public has access.
When you reserve an INSTRUMENT 1 we will mail you a unique reservation certificate, letterpressed on thick bamboo paper and stamped with your reservation code. Additionally, your $10 will be credited as $20 toward your first purchase with Artiphon. Participants in the reservation program will receive an email in advance of the public sale date, granting them exclusive access to purchase one of the first units during a short private sales period. Participating in the reservation program is not an obligation to buy, but it does ensure that you will have the opportunity to buy before our first production batch is sold out.
See the Artiphon site for details.
Great, another product at Apple’s merci. If they change the form factor of the iPhone or significantly change GarageBand in a way that causes issues, you have a fancy controller you can only use as a door stop.
They don’t give any data on their site, but the iPhone is plugged into what looks like a Lightning connector, so it should be an iPhone 5 (i.e. it won’t work with older ones).
The fact that this will not be compatible with future iPhones is a given. So, you have to judge it based on the fact that buyers & the developer have still found it to be viable….
Nha.. still looks lame to me.
If the things developers cannot be bothered to make as good sounding a demo as possible, how do they expect that anyone else would want to even try?
Whenever I see demos like this, the first thing that springs to mind is: is this really the best the thing can do? Because if it doesn’t get better than that, the thing really isn’t worth having…
Ahahaha… oh god no.
Stop releasing new iPads every 14 months and we’ll talk. I have no reason to buy a tool that won’t even provide a solid 5 years of use. Computers and the related accessories are a pricey hobby. I don’t feel like tying myself to market trends I know are mainly designed to squeeze the living F#@K out of me financially. I love creating music and I’m not interested in hobbling the process. When iOS has remained stable for a few years like OS X, call me. I respect some great apps such as iMini and Sunrizer, but the platform has a ways to go.
you could never make anything with this that would cross the threshold of completely amateur production