Advanced Keyboard Synths - Compared

[Jukka]

@FilipNest

Surely one day we’ll get an Osmose like keyboard controller with a huge set of MIDI 2.0 motorised encoders, a Continuum like touch strip, with a lovely screen and a built in computer that lets you run any synth you want and integrates perfectly with the controller

That would be great.

Closest that i know of for this is the still in development – Aodyo Anyma Omega Keys. It’s only about 50% of what you want but still more than the alternatives.

It’s the Fatar poly-aftertouch keybed, and only sixteen continuous encoders below a color display, but it does have the poly touch 2-D ( plus smooch pressure ) ribbon ( that they will pioneer on the Loom ), plus a four part multimbral modular synth engine sort of like the Nord G2. It will also act as a controller. MIDI 2.0 isn’t part of the initial release, but they have committed to a ‘maybe someday’. It also has other interfaces built in, like breath control, and CV.

@FilipNest

it would also be lovely if they became a Fatar like thing selling their encoder tech to everyone.

That usually gets called “OEMing”.

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May 2025

We add the Frap Tools Magnolia now with a 61 key Fatar poly-aftertouch keybed.
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