anybody remember Laurie Spiegel's "Music Mouse" program?
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>Message: 20
> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 00:25:46 -0700
> From: Greg Wuller <ngwese@...>
>Subject: Re: Interseting controller/digital synth
>
>
>On Aug 18, 2005, at 7:05 PM, Paul Schreiber wrote:
>
>>
>http://www.global.yamaha.com/design/tenori-on/index
>.html
>>
>> Hard to say if it's 'real' or not.
>>
>
>I actually had the opportunity to play with one of
>these two weeks
>ago in the Emerging Technologies portion of the
>SIGGRAPH convention
>here in Los Angeles. The designer (Toshio Iwai) had
>four of what I'd
>call a "late prototype". From the controller
>perspective it was a
>really fun little 4 track step sequencer with both
>typical and
>unusual modes. I don't know if the little grills
>actually were
>intended to contain speakers or not as all the
>units had headphones.
>
>The buttons on the frame are for:
> (1) top = reset/clear the current track
> (4) right = track selection
> (2) bottom = volume
> (4) left = pattern mode for the current track
>
>The dial controlled the timbre used for the
>currently selected track.
>I'm trying to remember all the details about the
>different pattern
>modes.... If memory serves
>
>Mode 1: typical 16 step pattern sequencer,
>horizontal is time,
>vertical is pitch
>
>Mode 2: like mode 1 but in addition it did what
>they were calling
>"real time recording", instead of requiring you to
>press an hold a
>button momentarily in order to get a note to repeat
>all you had to do
>was trip the switch. By dragging your finger across
>the grid you
>could layer "waves" of notes on top of each other
>(the original
>timing was maintained).
>
>Mode 3: ??
>
>Mode 4: best described as ping-pong. Press a button
>to get note
>repeating, then press another. The time between
>notes is based on the
>distance between each point. Press more buttons to
>add additional
>notes to the sequence, when it got to the last note
>it repeated.
>
>The sound was basic but varied enough that the
>device was fun to play
>with. No MIDI on the prototypes as far as I could
>tell... it also
>wasn't clear if it would become an actual product
>some time in the
>future.
>
>-greg
>
>
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