Benefits
Two primary benefits are claimed by the inventors and enthusiasts of isomorphic keyboards:
- Ease of teaching, learning, and playing
- isomorphic keyboards' invariance facilitates music education and performance. This claim has not been rigorously tested, so its validity has been neither proven or disproven.
- Microtonality
- isomorphic keyboards' provision of more than the usual 12 note-controlling elements per octave facilitate the performance of music that requires more than 12 notes per octave.
A third potential benefit of isomorphic keyboards, dynamic tonality, has recently been demonstrated, but its utility is not yet been proven. Using a continuous controller, a performer can vary the tuning of all notes in real time, while retaining invariant fingering on an isomorphic keyboard. Dynamic Tonality has the potential to enable new real-time tonal effects such as polyphonic tuning bends, new chord progressions, and temperament modulations, but the musical utility of these new effects has not yet been demonstrated.
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