Hartmut Noack wrote: > Am 23.01.2010 08:10, schrieb david: >> http://www.misadigital.com/ >> >> OSS and Linux powered! > > Its basically a gentoo-tablet with a fretboard attached. The fretboard, > whatsoever is not much more than what you find in gaming-interfaces. It > does neither allow bendings nor hammering or tapping. The Touchpad > allows for triggering notes with differing velocity and can control 3 > more parameters via MIDI-CC. Since touching the pad always has to > trigger a note to do something hearable this breks down to 3 parameters > in total since velocity will be doubeled. Since the firmware is open it > should be possible to add some more controls but the problem is, that > the pad is not pressure-sensitive so you will allways get on/off only... > not to mention the limitations of the fretboard that is not much more > then a note-namer Sheesh. Too bad. > So it seems to me a toy, that could be a nice-to-have but compared to > what one can achieve with a Zeta plus kaos-pad or a wavedrum it is not > in the same league. Sounds more worthwhile just to get a MIDIfied guitar or such equipment. > The maker of the device does not react very relaxed to criticism. > Yesterday I asked him about these limitations in his forum. He reacted > quite allergic, stating that I would not be competent enough to judge > his instrument for I would lack the knowledge in electronic music. Later > another visitor joined the discussion, backing my point of view. Shortly > after that the forum was closed.... Bummer. Attitude like that doesn't bode well. > we'll see, what will happen, if the device is being shipped and the > first user-reviews rush in... Just glanced at his site, looks like the "first production run" hasn't been completed yet. -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
