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Archive for January, 2010
Apple announced the iPad today the long awaited tablet device that has been rumored forever. To be honest it’s a large iPod Touch/iPhone. People will complain that the storage isn’t large enough or that there isn’t a camera on there. I personally noticed that this could be used as a musical instrument/controller. For example on the iPod Touch/iPhone there is an App called ‘TouchOSC‘.
I’m hoping that the same guys create a version for the iPad. If you are familiar with Jazzmutant’s Lemur you know that TouchOSC on the iPod Touch/iPhone is basically the same thing on a smaller scale. It was never a problem until today because a bigger screen is what you truly need and wanted for something like this.
I personally think that Jazzmutant as a company is going to be slowly forced into becoming a software only company and should really think about developing an App for the iPad before guys that did TouchOSC or someone else might even jump in. At the price point of 1700 – 1800 usd for the Jazzmutant Lemur vs starting price of 499 usd of the Apple iPad, no one in their right mind would purchase the Lemur today unelse you like wasting money. iPad is the most exciting potential music device of the year. Suck it NAMM, you fucking joke. *Update I do know that the iPad is completely functional with all iPod Touch/iPhone Apps. So therefore TouchOSC would work with the iPad but I think it just enlarges the app to fill the screen. I want new App to utilize the full screen. Here is a hands on demo of the iPad: Interesting idea for an album cover. When you open it.. it breaks a seal of an ink pack and therefore every album cover will be different. People are saying that this is an interactive album cover, I don’t think so. If you want a interactive album cover check out Moldover’s album (yeah same dude with the Mojo controller). Pretty cool I must admit but ugly. I have been keeping a fairly close eye on new stories coming from the NAMM event and I have to be honest I think 90% of the products if not more are a joke. Let me just go through some examples of why I think this and then a couple of cool things as well. Korg Kaossilator Pro
Everything is the same but for a few things. It’s green instead of red. Instead of hold function they give you Gate Arp. And some minor software changes thats it. They should have just marketed this as ‘Old hardware Special Edition KP3 because we are too lazy to come up with the KP4′. I don’t know. — “Cakewalk launched the FA-66 FireWire Audio Interface for Mac and PC at NAMM. The FA-66 will be available in late April, 2010. Pricing is TBA.” Oh do you mean the Edirol FA-66 that’s available right now? At least Korg changed the color of their product. — Akai MPD26
Okay Akai must have had some inside info from Korg that new colors help. This has two less knobs and three extra buttons. For 199.00 I think I’ll pass and get Korg nanoPad and nanoControl for a total of 100.00. — Okay.. onto some kinda cool things from NAMM. Moldover’s Mojo Works with all MIDI compatible music software — Ableton/Serato’s The Bridge OR If you have Ableton Live and Max for Live AND Ms. Pinky you could use this patch. — There is a lot of little things I could continue to post on like the return of the Moog Taurus III, Teenage Engineering OP-1, Arturia Origin Keyboard, The Eigenharp Tau and more. And there are a billion more things I could complain about with the useless midi keyboards, dj controllers and lame same old instruments (with new colors yay!
It may be not the greatest front finish on a guitar but the features that this beast packs is amazing and for the price it should. This is the third generation of robot guitars. The first that I have ever seen, so I’m quite impress with the automate tuning system they have. If I had the need of another guitar and had over 4000USD laying around I would pick this up. Check out the video it’s a great overview of the Dusk Tiger. Intense video/movie about the font called Helvetica. I’m sure you have it on your Pc/Mac. This video gives you a inside look on where the font came from, examples how it first started to get use to today’s uses and as well a lot of opinions from artists. *Hope you had a safe and good New Year! One thing I would like to mention that this past month I have been posting almost every couple of days which this year will be more of one or twice a week. Why? I need to focus my time more on my projects instead of blog posts. You know the more important things. |
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