Artiphon Wants You to Test the Instrument 1

Artiphon is

for its Instrument 1 — that's the iPhone-powered, Nashville-designed and -built digital

/interface/thingy being put through the paces by company founder Mike Butera in the video above.

is that Music City will get priority when it comes to handing out the test models, so if you're an iOS type who likes to experiment with zeroes and ones, this is your chance. (Artiphon is also

; $10 will get you $20 toward the $799 purchase price.)

I wrote about Artiphon and their niche in the local tech ecosystem a while back.