[sdiy] Radio Shack catalogs

[Paul Burns]

Hmm, Mr Wentk, I agree with you about the future of , but ...

Yes, I would have missed that Ipad thing ...not bothered about anything that
comes out of Steve Jobs stable. Overpriced and underpowered. Always, and
hobbled to boot.
 
I am gobsmacked though ... Apple launches the idea that their products can
do more than one thing at a time .. let's wait and see eh? Been doing that
on PCs for years...mostly lots of things, all at once, pushing the
envelope...

Next thing is we will all be using Koan to write music...I remember Future
Music being a big protagonist in the early 90s (Mr Wentk) ... that also has
been around for donkeys, and is now ported to Iphones as Mixtikl?

What , 18 years on ?

Just like QWERTY keyboards I do not see the death of black and white notes
over touch screen stuff just yet ( I have possibly the world's smallest
touch screen gigging setup , if you know better I shall stand corrected. It
runs Reason and Ableton, been doing it for three years now, with the recent
addenda a year ago to make it smaller with the Korg Nano stuff, which makes
it really small...)

http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=on4mrxy2mg4


There have been other keyboard innovations like chromatic keyboards which
never took of either...like those crazy Japanese electro taishogoto things
that I own a couple of ...

But I feel that patchcords and knobs will live forever alongside the buttons
and sliders of the DX7 and the SY99...they both add a certain frisson to
producing music , as do soft synths and the touch screens that will become
more prevalent.

Why then do people ( I know one, just got it delivered ) feel the need to
throw the price of a small house at Don Buchla to build a tailor made thing
filled with knobs ? And holes for cords? And why do we all go ...WOW!!!!? 


Regards

Paul



-----Original Message-----
From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Richard Wentk
Sent: 13 May 2010 22:32
To: Synth DIY
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Radio Shack catalogs

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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