http://youtube.com/watch?v=_SGwDhKTrwU

uh oh guys

not really.

This one is more interesting and uh oh ish

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LPkUvfL8T1I

agreed.  now i can't wait to get my 256 so that i can program pong on it 
:)

that would be amazing! that alone would make me consider buying a 256.

pong on a 256 would look amazing!

how about a sadistic game of simon on a 256?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aE-iqW8N4Fs

have you discussed the tenori in this forum?

please elaborate on your quote...

http://forum.monome.org/topic/1329#new
for starters

they're kinda the same on a superficial level but just happened to come 
out around the same time.  the monome stuff is focused on community 
driven open source DIY software and hardware, the tenori on is made by 
yamaha, unknown if it's hackable and limited in apps and sounds with 
what yamaha provides.

my not so educated $0.02.

^ what tone said.

the 256 and tenori-on are similar if and only if you haven't done 
anywhere near enough research to justify stumping up the ¥ for either.

in fact that should be a litmus test for the oft-asked "should i buy a 
mononme?". answer - "can you tell the difference between a tenori-on and 
a monome? if not, then, no, you perhaps shouldn't get a monome". 
perhaps.

again, no doubt the tenori is very exciting. it's just totally not 
similar at all.

http://monome.org/articles/2007/08/30/towards-a-clearer-representation/

http://www.google.com/search?q=tenori+site%3Aforum.monome.org

exactly.  they're only similar in that they both have a bunch of toggle 
switches that light up.  beyond that, they're pretty different.

all in all, it's easiest to sum it up by saying that the monome can (and 
soon will, with a bit of programming effort) do everything the tenori 
can do.  however, the tenori can't do what the monome can; it can just 
do what a couple of the monome's apps can.

the monome is limited only by your imagination and programming 
skills/willingness to learn.  the tenori is limited by what yamaha says 
it is (which at the moment means general midi sounds and less-than one 
second samples...cool!).

i still want a tenori-on though. if only it didn't cost the same as my 
car. jesus. ..

They did a fairly thorough review at Sonic State.  To me it seems more 
like a toy, and not very flexible at all. In fact, the reviewer seems 
much less than impressed with it.

You can watch the video, and read some interesting dialog regarding the 
Monome/Tenori-On debate here:

http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2007/09/yamaha-tenori-on-review-on-sonic-state.html

thanks for the post, very insightful. again i must reiterate how awkward 
it is being compared to yamaha.

how soon until you guys start making $100 guitars that i can get at 
costco?

=P

fo'real come on!

;)

that sonicstate review is nice to see.  lots of info on this device. 
doesn't really come off too favorably, tho.  there's a lot of 
limitations there that'll be difficult to work with, i'd think. 
generally in a hardware device, the limitations are a good thing; they 
make you think differently and come up with unexpected results.  but 
this seems a bit too limiting to be useful for anything other than a 
sketchpad.  and that's a lot to spend on a sketchpad.