Sound Maestro Splits Songs Into 4 Speakers You Conduct With a Baton - Yanko Design

"Sound Maestro is a speaker inspired by an orchestra conductor that consists of three core parts: the conductor's podium, the instruments, and the conductor's baton. When everything is docked together, it reads as a single object, but each of the four modular speakers can be detached and assigned a different musical part, vocals, drums, bass, and melody, each with its own LED color glowing underneath the grille."

"The system uses AI to split a track into four stems and send each to a different speaker, so one cube carries the vocal, another the drums, another the bass, and another the melody. The LEDs on each unit glow in a unique color, making it easy to see which part is where. This spatial mapping of sound means the mix becomes something you can see and point at, not just hear as a single stereo image coming from two speakers."

"The baton-shaped controller is the main interface. In Maestro Mode, you twist a dial to enter a state where the default buttons are locked, zand you control speakers by pointing and gesturing. A quick left-right wave skips tracks, a slow up-down motion adjusts volume with LED brightness as feedback, and drawing a circle pauses or resumes playback, with all LEDs turning off or on to confirm what just happened."

Sound Maestro is a modular speaker system modeled on an orchestra conductor, consisting of a podium, a baton, and four detachable speakers. Each speaker hosts one musical stem—vocals, drums, bass, or melody—and displays a distinct LED color under its grille. An AI splits tracks into four stems and routes each stem to a different unit. The spatial arrangement makes the mix visually and spatially navigable. The baton provides two interaction modes: Maestro Mode uses gestures (e.g., left-right to skip, up-down to change volume, circle to pause) with LED feedback, while Remote Control Mode uses pointing and buttons for precise control. The system emphasizes theatrical, physical engagement with music.

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