L’Incompreso
Roty è uno strumento musicale elettronico ideato e realizzato da Andrea Sartori: una DRUM MACHINE ed un SINTETIZZATORE combinati. Ciò che lo rende unico è il motore di sintesi, inteso nel vero senso della parola: un MOTORE. Il cubo motorizzato è controllabile via MIDI, ed è quindi in grado di eseguire sequenze determinate da qualsiasi dispositivo collegato alla sua interfaccia input.
FabLab Team
Andrea Sartori
Descrizione
ROTY is an extraordinary simple, cheap motion tool. Just a motor? Yes…But… It’s a digital controlled motor easy to program and combine to a set of optional Add-ons. It’s designed for musicians that expect to control real instruments and sounding objects using digital devices,(like MIDI). At the same time it doesn’t cage creativity, because it’ s always possible to modify its behaviour directly, touching it by hands. An Example: think about maracas. ROTY can play them for you, in sync. If it sounds steady you can filter the sound with your hands, add friction, or slap it! An optional microphone can be plugged in and record the sounds.
ROTY is also able to play tuned sounds, taking advance of motor noise. Indeed stepper motor used for 3D printers make some melodies some- times! ROTY can tune the noise and control it as a monophonic MIDI Synth . It’s possible to connect many ROTYs and obtain Polyphony and Rhythm together. It‘s also possible to plug special optional tools in the shaft and obtain heuristic sound modulation, or sound acoustic amplification.
Features
Optional Tools
ROTY system is basically composed by the ROTY cube, with limited functions. An interesting eco-system can grow around ROTY, adding optional tools. An universal hub for motor shaft, (under developement), will be able to clasp an infinity of compatible and incompatible objects dedicated to make music and make everything needing a basic controlled automation. Just like LEGO. Example of music tools: brushes, armonic resonators, microphones, percussive mal- lets, tuned string arrays, tambourines, drumsticks and so on…. Example of general porpouse tools: gear reductor modules, pulley modules, flat rotation plate module, and so on…Add-ons: ROTY battery pack + MIDI wireless cube, ROTY MIDI keyboard CUBE, ROTY pedal control, ROTY Microphone, ROTY Mixer ecc.
