trillo | All-in-One Tiny Digital Flute

What is trillo?

Meet trillo, the new digital flute by ARTinoise.

Small enough to fit in your pocket and powerful enough to become your everyday instrument, trillo brings together the familiarity of a recorder-style wind instrument and the creative freedom of digital technology. 

Whether you are a beginner, a student, a teacher, or a professional musician, trillo is designed to make playing more immediate, expressive, and accessible, wherever you are.

Why trillo?

We created trillo after years of dialogue with musicians, teachers, and players from the ARTinoise re.corder community.

Their feedback led us to imagine a new kind of instrument: one that is more portable, more expressive, easier to customise, and ready for both music education and professional workflows. 

The result is trillo: a new generation digital flute that feels immediate and familiar, yet opens the door to entirely new musical possibilities.

Speaking about feedback:
During this campaign we are showing two versions of trillo. 
We will be listening to what the people ask/want and do our best to satisfy the requests!
The hue of the colored version will be decided together with the backers on a dedicated survey.

small size, BIG possibilities

At only 22 cm long, trillo is designed to go everywhere with you.

Slip it into a jacket pocket, backpack, or handbag, plug in your headphones or connect it to a speaker, and you are ready to play. 

While extremely portable, trillo retains 95% of the hole spacing of a traditional soprano recorder.

Unlike many digital wind instruments, trillo is not just a controller. 
It is a complete musical instrument with its own sound engine, expressive controls, and built-in performance features.

What makes trillo special

• Portable by design: Ultra-compact and lightweight, trillo is made for daily practice, travel, classroom use, and music-making on the go. 
• Built-in sounds: Play instantly with a rich library of internal sounds, without needing a computer or external gear.
• On-board backing tracks: Practice, improvise, and perform with backing tracks in different styles, directly from the instrument.  Backing tracks can be created using the  free to download companion app. 
• Premium sound slots: Expand your instrument with premium sound packs that can be installed directly from the companion app. 

• Expressive sensor system: Breath control and motion sensing work together to capture the human side of performance, shaping volume, timbre, and musical expression in real time. trillo, as a great addition to the re.corder playability, includes a PitchBend button enabled by your right thumb.

• Audio out: Connect headphones, speakers, or recording systems and play anywhere with zero latency.

• USB and Bluetooth MIDI: Use trillo as an advanced MIDI wind controller for DAWs, virtual instruments, and mobile music setups. 
• Simple interface: A musician-friendly interface based on the playing keys and multi-colored LEDs keeps everything immediate and intuitive.

Play it your way

trillo adapts to different players, needs, and musical contexts.
You can play it using standard recorder-style fingering or choose alternative fingerings that better match your background and preferences. You can also customise fingering systems, save configurations, and build a setup that feels natural for the way you play. 

Additional performance modes make trillo even more versatile: 

• Lip Sensor mode for breath-free playing, especially useful for young children or players with limited breath control.
• Keyboard mode for beat-making and triggering notes or sound effects.
• MagicWand mode for motion-based performance with accelerometers, designed to stay musical and intuitive.
• Thumb control for expressive functions such as pitch-bend, portamento, drones, and other performance gestures

This flexibility makes trillo more than a digital flute. It becomes a creative platform for many kinds of musicians. 

Expressivity captured

At the heart of trillo is a set of high-tech sensors designed to turn physical gestures into musical expression.

High-precision breath sensor
Detects even subtle changes in air pressure for nuanced control over dynamics and tone.
Motion control via built-in sensor
Move trillo in space to influence sound, shape expression, and unlock new performance possibilities. 

This means your sound does not just start and stop. 
It responds to how you breathe, move, and play. 

Standalone or Fully connected

trillo is designed to work in two ways:

Standalone instrument: Play with built-in sounds and connect directly through its audio output. 

Connected controller Use low-latency MIDI via USB-C or Bluetooth to control DAWs, synths, and virtual instruments. 
From home practice to live performance to studio production, trillo fits naturally into your setup. 

Preliminary Sound Demos:

The trillo companion app

The trillo Companion App is where the instrument becomes even more personal and powerful.

Learn faster: A guided, intuitive learning path helps you discover the instrument with interactive support and real-time visual feedback. 
Create and manage backing tracks: Import MIDI files, organise pre-made loops, and prepare accompaniments to play along with. 
Expand your sound palette: Browse, configure, and install premium sounds directly onto the device. 
Customize your instrument: Adjust sensor sensitivity, create fingering systems, and save your favorite configurations.

The app is designed to make trillo your own instrument and to adapt it to your style when used standalone!

Designed for Education, Performance & Accessibility

trillo was created to serve very different kinds of musicians. 

For students, it offers an immediate and engaging way to begin making music. 
For teachers, it opens new classroom possibilities with a compact, flexible digital instrument. 
For performers and producers, it delivers a portable wind controller with expressive depth and professional connectivity. 
For accessible music-making, its alternative control modes and customizable fingerings create new ways to interact with sound.  ARTinoise trillo can be adapted to suit the needs of people with health conditions and physical disabilities.

Why trillo is different

Most digital wind instruments are designed around a compromise.
Some focus on portability and ease of use. Others offer deeper control, broader connectivity, or more advanced sound options. Very few bring all of these qualities together in a truly compact instrument.

trillo is designed to do exactly that.

Built on what we learned from ARTinoise re.corder and shaped by the needs of today’s musicians, trillo combines true portability with onboard sounds, backing tracks, expressive sensors, app-based customization, and USB/Bluetooth MIDI connectivity.

The result is an instrument that feels immediate for beginners, flexible for teachers, and powerful enough for performers, producers, and creators on the move.

trillo is not simply a smaller digital wind instrument, it is a more complete one for the way music is made today.

About ARTinoise

ARTinoise: Reimagining Music.

We are a team of Italian engineers, designers, and musicians united by one goal: making music creation more accessible, expressive, and inspiring. 
With re.corder and zefiro, we have already shown how traditional musical ideas can evolve through thoughtful design and technology. With trillo, we are taking the next step. 

From patents to industrial design, from hardware to software, everything is developed with the same vision: creating real musical instruments, not just gadgets.

Shipping and Risks

We are working carefully to bring trillo to life with the quality and reliability that musicians expect. At the same time, given the current global situation, production and shipping timelines may be subject to some uncertainty. We will communicate transparently with our backers throughout the process and keep the community updated at every major step. The whole process of will be managed through the Kickstarter's internal Pledge Manager. 

The table below is an estimation of pricing based on April '26 express couriers price lists. We will work to optimize this as much as we can.