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Touch Screen Music Synth
Software based synthesizers are getting more popular. This idea is about touch-screen effects so that the musician can touch the screen. | |
Synthesizers are hard ware keyboards. It costs quite a lot. Nowadays, these machines are software-based which can be convienient because you can store it in your hard disk.
The touch screen will enable all musicians to have a better control on the music.
Seeing as you can get MIDI for the Palm
http://users.ev1.net/~bantha/palm/
...I'm gonna call this one Baked. [DrCurry, Aug 07 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Kaos Pad
http://www.cyrogeni...views/korgeview.htm
[prometheus, Aug 07 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Keleja's link
http://www.estarcio...lugins.html#miditab
Been doing this a lot recently... [yamahito, Aug 14 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Roland PMA-5
http://www.harmony-...oland/PMA-5-01.html
Baked in palmsize format in 1997, it can also convert/transfer MIDI to and from a Mac. Retailed for 600 back in the day, one in xlnt condition can be had on ebay for $150 w/convertor [thumbwax, Aug 14 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]
seems you were a bit early
https://www.google....?q=synth+music+ipad
beginning of 2014 [pashute, Jan 05 2014]
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I think you will find that a touch screen monitor costs as much as, if not more than many synthesizers. |
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I prefer the idea of the light beam keyboard - Basically a row of light emitters even spaced in a straight line to allow for approximate hand alignment and a row of corresponding receivers about 8ft above them. When the beam is broken, the note plays. Picture a jiggling muso throwing his hands about in empty space.... |
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Hm. If you used a Wacom drawing tablet, you could probably mock up a Theremin. There was another keyboard I linked to recently that responded to the position of the hand above it, and could interpret hand signals. |
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DrC: Wacom also makes a touchscreen LCD display.
I didn't really read it well enough the first time. I thought the idea was to replace a keyboard with a touchscreen. |
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Now I interpret it as: Take already existing touchscreen technology, interface with already existing MIDI software and already existing MIDI keyboards, using already existing touchscreen HID drivers? The result? It already exists. |
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[Starmanz]: That one was baked years ago by Jean Michel Jarre. |
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There is a program called spongefork(google search for it)
that would work well with a touch screen, but already
works fine with a mouse.
And you can already draw waveforms(and make sound
interpreations of artwork) with programs like metasynth. |
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Very early version of a Wacom-to-MIDI app is available at http://www.estarcion.com/tinygod/plugins.html#miditab |
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Please, for god's sake, use the link button. I've done it for you, just this once. |
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Hah - I'm doing this NOW with Reaktor 4. Status - fully baked. |
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[c-bee1] Is it noticeably easier
than using a mouse? I've always
wondered, but never had the
clams for a touchscreen. |
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Seems to me being able to reach
out and move the virtual knobs
and faders would be nearly as
good as using a real, knob-
encrusted synth. |
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BTW I own, use and love the PMA-
5. The touchscreen is way too
small to be all that convenient
though - requires a pen. By rights
it should cover the whole front
face of the instrument. |
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Various hardware synths and other
gear have been made with
touchscreens over the years,
Korg's Triton and Trinity synths for
example and their D- series of
hard disk recorders. |
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By the way, a Synthesizer is NOT necessarily a hardware keyboard... they are frequently just software run on a Mac or PC or they are rack-mounted modules. In any case, this one is totally baked. |
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