Benjamin gives YouTube music lessons real buttons and dials
Benjamin is a tactile control surface and iPad stand that replaces fiddly touchscreen gestures with physical controls. It helps musicians keep their focus on the instrument while they learn from tutorial videos.
Music education tech has been moving quickly. Recent examples include guitars with light-up fretboards that guide your fingers and ROLI's AI Music Coach, which tracks your hands at the piano and gives feedback in real time.
For a huge number of players, though, the teacher is simply a YouTube video, and the main obstacle is the interface. Everyone knows how many attempts it can take to successfully grab the progress bar on a touchscreen and drag it back by the correct amount, but for musicians who need to repeat the same riff over and over again, that small annoyance becomes a genuine barrier.
Benjamin: A control surface for practice
Toronto-based Benjamin Industries tackles that problem with a...
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