[sdiy] Radio Shack catalogs

[Richard Wentk]

You may have missed the OS 4 announcement with support for multitasking. 

It should be *obvious* by now that this is how synthesis is going to go.

Short of a direct neural link, there is no way to beat a software-configurable context aware dynamic multitouch interface. And the technology can only get bigger and cheaper. 

You can already buy monitor- and HD TV-sized multitouch panels.

I'm not sure why anyone would want actual knobs or [snicker] patchcords. 

Richard

On 13 May 2010, at 21:15, Paul Burns wrote:

> I could never run a machine in this day and age that only does one "app" at
> a time... 
> 
> But at least it blends
> 
> http://www.blendtec.com/willitblend/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=ipad
> 
> 
> Paul
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Paul Cunningham
> Sent: 13 May 2010 20:32
> To: synth diy
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Radio Shack catalogs
> 
> I'm not sure how this thread turned to synth software interfaces, but I
> can definitely tell you that the iPad makes a lot of those novelty  
> iPhone
> instruments immediately a lot more accessible. Apps such as the argon  
> and
> ellatron are suddenly real instruments to me and worthy of  
> consideration.
> Before it was just kinda fun to play mellotron strings on my phone  
> but now
> I can actually play them as an instrument. Choose your interface whether
> it is a touch screen or knobs and banana plugs. If you can connect to it
> in a meaningful way who cares?
> 
> Anyone care to comment on the mopho keyboard and the complexity that  
> lies
> beneath the knobs? I just got one yesterday and feel I have a pretty  
> good
> grasp of how to work it, but there is definitely a lot of software in
> play... I would like to diy an instrument at this level of complexity  
> one
> of these days... -pc
> 
> 
> On May 12, 2010, at 7:37 PM, "David G. Dixon" <dixon at interchange.ubc.ca>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Probably the only way to get a decent interface now is with software,
>> 
> but
> 
>> who wants to play a computer?
> 
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