[sdiy] Great idea for UI

[Dave Magnuson]

How about "AudioPad"?   Seems like the best UI I've ever seen.

http://www.jamespatten.com/audiopad/index.php

The guy built it as a graduate school project... so I suppose you could 
build one yourself if you're extremely ambitious.

Dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <david at therogoffs.com>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 12:26 PM
Subject: [sdiy] Great idea for UI


> Hi all!
>
> I just saw this review for a gaming interface that lets you move physical 
> buttons whereever you want:
>
> http://www.tomshardware.com/game/20050308/index.html
>
> I'd love to see something like this for a synthesizer.  That's been the 
> advantage of softsynths or the GUI for the Nord Modular - your can have 
> just the controls you want, where you want them.  The downside, of course, 
> is no physical buttons.  Now, if someone could modify/extend the DX1 to 
> have knobs, sliders, and rotory encoders, and to output MIDI and/or CV, it 
> would be an amazing front end to analog or softsynths!  While we're at it, 
> add LEDs/displays that can be placed anywhere and addressed.
>
> Any thoughts?  Anyone working on something like this?
>
> David