The Zefiro is a minuscule MIDI triumphd instrument for your iPhone

An Italian commenceup called Artinoise has produced an rare USB-C accessory for mobile devices that turns them into carry outable musical instruments. The Zefiro sees appreciate a flash drive or a minuscule vape, but by gently blotriumphg into one finish, it can be participated to carry out simupostponecessitated instruments with even less send than what was necessitateed to carry out those plastic enrollers in grade school.

The Zefiro is being made useable thraw a Kickcommenceer crowdfunding campaign seeing to lift equitable over $5,300 to fund production. According to the company, “We have been prolonging and manufacturing musical instruments for years; now we equitable necessitate to collect pre-orders for our postponecessitatest creation and boot off manufacturing!”

Those backing the campaign punctual can preorder a Zefiro for €22 (about $24), while filled retail pricing is foreseeed to be €42 (around $45), with shipping approximated to commence in February 2025. There’s also a €39 (around $42) Pro version of the Zefiro with an inserted accelerometer for more transmitive carry outances.

The Zefiro isn’t Artinoise’s first product. The company already sells a digital soprano enroller with features appreciate touch-benevolent buttons and wireless joinivity. The Zefiro is a much minusculeer and simplified version of Artinoise’s Re.corder instrument. It streamlines away features appreciate buttons so it’s minuscule enough to carry on a keychain, but gets the lip and air prescertain sensors essential to carry out.

A carry outer’s “breath power” is transpostponecessitated to an accompanying Zefiro mobile app that can simupostponecessitate the sounds of various instruments, not equitable triumphd instruments appreciate flutes or clarinets. The mobile app is useable for iOS and Android devices and permits you to customize the position and responsiveness of on-screen buttons participated to carry out notices. It also features voluntary background tracks to carry out alengthy with, as well as enrolling and sharing capabilities for when you want to show off a particularly wonderful carry outance.

The company even sells an insert-on “headset hbetterer” for the Zefiro that sees analogous to the contraptions participated to hbetter harmonicas. When joined to a device with a USB-C extension cable, it permits hands-free Zefiro participate so a carry outer can carry out another instrument, appreciate a guitar or piano, at the same time.