worldwide dubstep community
https://www.dubstepforum.com/forum/
Am told that real sized multitouch screens are sub $200 now...Mad EP wrote:From what I can tell - it is an iPad app... using some sort of buffer patch from Reaktor.
Based on the finger movements, you can pretty much tell what it is going on (tho I admit it took me a few views). I had a feeling this would happen once the iPad came out: *MUCH* cheaper physical/musical controls than the Lemur interface... and now with a larger developer pool to draw from.
I mean, screw the trustfund hipsters - who WOULDN'T want to have that kind of tactile control?
you know the makers give out the video captureing software free (theres an easy tut on how to make it work on reasen, so a camera facing down over paper shapes can be assigned to cutoff, adsr and so forth) BUT the projection side of it (where the circles and lines are projected around the object) isnt free (or wasnt last year anyway) 
My uni actually built their own Reactable and I got to develop software on it for my final year project - I don't think it was as expensive as £5000, you basically need a computer, projector, camera, some LEDs, and some sort of box to house it in. Ours was kinda ghetto but it worked okay once you configured it correctly, can pick up finger input as well as those blocks. If I could get my hands on the equipment again I'd love to look into developing some sort of MIDI controller, wanted to suggest that as my project but I had to do something game related.Fbac wrote:I love reactable
but yea the move to Ipad is deffinatly going to help them, at the mo a reactable is like 5000 poundos!
an official one from there site costs 9.700 euroslostcosmonaut wrote: My uni actually built their own Reactable and I got to develop software on it for my final year project - I don't think it was as expensive as £5000, you basically need a computer, projector, camera, some LEDs, and some sort of box to house it in.
, yea i know about it from uni also, apparently you can buy the Wii camera and its cheap and got good motion tracking. Theres loads of cool little things you can do with it.I want one very badly. The iPad 2. I am poor thoMad EP wrote:From what I can tell - it is an iPad app... using some sort of buffer patch from Reaktor.
Based on the finger movements, you can pretty much tell what it is going on (tho I admit it took me a few views). I had a feeling this would happen once the iPad came out: *MUCH* cheaper physical/musical controls than the Lemur interface... and now with a larger developer pool to draw from.
I mean, screw the trustfund hipsters - who WOULDN'T want to have that kind of tactile control?
Oh live a little ffs. That looks bad ass no matter how you want to spin it. Every time a new iPad app comes out for music it hurts a little more that I don't have oneparavrais wrote:I don't like it, sure it looks kinda cool but it feels very gimmicky to me. Can't see it having any real practical use in the long run. Give me a controller with actual knobs and buttons any day. Plus the idea of giving apple any more money makes me feel queasy.
paravrais wrote:I don't like it, sure it looks kinda cool but it feels very gimmicky to me. Can't see it having any real practical use in the long run.
Yup. I think the touch screen is a big game changer. It's still new for practical purposes. I have no doubt in my mind everyone will be using them in one way or another in the next few years. The thing has designers collective creative juices flowing. Stuff like this is just a taste. And set up will be nice. No wires. Have 4 or 5 screens all talking wirelessly and and sending audio out wirelessly to the sound guy. I love it.Mad EP wrote:paravrais wrote:I don't like it, sure it looks kinda cool but it feels very gimmicky to me. Can't see it having any real practical use in the long run.
That's exactly what people originally said about computers, synthesizers & drum machines.