EFNOTE was founded in 2018, in the city where many renowned musical instrument companies are headquartered, Hamamatsu, Japan, nicknamed the “City Of Music”.
A small group of highly-skilled engineers set out to push further into creating musical instruments, that embraced our most free designs, with ideas that were considered insane by the norm. A norm that we viewed as boring and not creating true musical instruments.
Ever since we introduced a new concept of E-Drums with Acoustic Design called aDrums at EFNOTE’s predecessor company in 2017, we have been challenging ourselves to create instruments from a drummer’s perspective.
Many major brands have since followed our lead, and this is a testament to our innovative originality.EFNOTE is an electronic instrument brand that is truly musical, based on the key beliefs of Beauty, Quality, Originality. As founding members, we wanted to create something more detailed, consistent, and essential that we could not do while working at a large company.
Unfortunately, the above key beliefs had been sacrificed for the sake of corporate profit and efficiency, even though they are all essential elements of musical instruments. Our mission is to pursue these universal values even as our brand grows.
All of EFNOTE’s engineers are professionals who have been involved with electronic drums for a long time, which guarantees consistency in design quality. Featuring world’s-first technologies such as Tru-Motion™ Hi-Hat, STAK™, and ELISE™ Sensing Processor, we offer the world’s widest lineup of high quality electronic drums, from the cutest “EFNOTE mini” to pro-level “EFNOTE PRO”.
We have seen sites where many meetings and inside/outside opinions have caused ideas to lose their edge and produce commodity products.
This EFNOTE mini, for example, is exactly the realized shape of the ideal home electronic drums. In this industry, where people used to believe that “small = cheap”, we created the concept of “small but high quality”, or as we like to say, mini MIGHTY. This is why we keep our team small and elite.
Today, features that are not the essence of musical instruments, such as unstable wireless connections or transient subscription services, can become the product’s catchphrase. We provide the best drumsets for drummers who don’t need unnecessary features, while focusing resources on fast, accurate triggering and high-quality, consistently available sound. With players in mind, we research and develop technologies that are truly necessary for our instruments.
We record everything ourselves in Japan to get the ideal sound.
The character of our sound is warm, organic and human, the result of the utmost respect for acoustic drums, as opposed to other brands’s robotic, cold digital sounds.
The less confident the sound, the more specifications are touted, such as the number of tones and frequencies, but true players and engineers know that this is meaningless in music.
Listen, play, and experience it.
The instruments in the collection have been designed in collaboration with Karen-Renée Robb, visual and vocal artist and founder of The Music City Alliance for Sound & Music Healing and Frame Drum Wisdom. They feature [...]
