News, iPad this weekend. Gear Junkies take the cake, here is the YouTube embed:
Need to look at the details more – can I MIDI it?
A WHOLE COLLECTION of new controllers. Again, Gear Junkies kicks ass! Synthopia saw the same good stuff, I am using their image.
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I am a H-U-G-E RME Fan. They have a new interface called “Baby Face” (PDF info), a micro extension, if you will, on the successful Fire Face technology. (If you don’t know about Fire Face, check it out).
Reactables – coming closer to you both physically and financially.
Gear Junkies FTW with a Messe review. Very good break down (these guys do such as great job. Special thanks to Mark D and crew for all the effort. Ableton Denver loves you!)
Korg Monotron – a new classic or a key-chain toy gone wild? You decide!
I am an admitted non-fan of VST / plugin technology. Yeah I use them, but it is not my thing. Regardless, this next item is cool- it is like a VST instrument trapped on the iPad.
When I look at this image of Mini Synth (for iPad):
I think of this Superman (2) image:
As if a perfectly good VST was banished for galactic crime.
Oh, and just when you thought the iPad is going to be cool, CDM gets real and shows us how nasty Apple can be (looking like they are all legal team?)
We will be art walkin’ on Sante Fe tonight after we hit Dorkbot. See you there?
As many people may know, I write what I can when I can. The longer the interval the more stuff. So, here is some catchup!
Meet Up
Post NAMM
As seen on my radar scope
iPad
Meet Up
Special thanks to everyone who came out this past Sunday. The meet up was really cool. Dawrin Grosse did a wonderful job. Special thanks to him. We do have video, we are working on that…
The next meet up is February 28, 2010 at 7pm at the Walnut Room. This is the a Controllerism special we are calling “The Petting Zoo“. I will have more details out soon, but for now I will drop the short list:
Livid DIY (this product is still in beta testing, but we have access to it already)
Arduinome (wiki link – this is a Aruino chip that works like a Monome)
So, pretty good huh? This is definitely a first as far as I know. The intent is to end the evening with a number of small and discrete workstations where each one of these is set up and available for testing and questions after the presentations. So we will NOT be talking at you, instead we will be sharing. Only at NAMM or Messe will you see this many controllers on Ableton!
I think there is more swag available too (no promises, hopefully no one actually hung them self on the lanyards).
Not much really. I covered most of the best stuff already. We do have “The Bridge” on the way. On that topic, I am looking for any collaborator/takers on getting a site up for this topic. We own the domains seratoableton.com and serato-ableton.com. All I need is content! Contact me on this (info [at] the site in your URL bar is the email).
I want. I think the unit is a total flop in general, but the ability to control Ableton is already there. A full 10″ touch screen interface is so worth $499, even if it is flawed and generally received as iFlop. Sorry to the fanboy crowd, I am reading well over 10 times more “Apple is dumb” articles than praise for the unit.
“Waveforming Free” is a free reduced version of MESA+ Waveforming. Waveforming Free is based on only 10 waveform and it contains 40 Ableton Instrument Rack presets.
There are some demo tracks and they do sound nice. I could see some great results when mixed with the right effects. The synth sounds have a wide spectrum of tonality and clear precise sampling. Good stuff.
In case you were wondering, Mesa is a bunch of engineers who write service companies like IK-Multimedia and Native-Instruments.
Reactables – coming closer to you both physically and financially.
