On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 1/29/11, Paul Davis wrote: > >> alexandre's second list concerned usability, and although its clear >> that some platforms do not have or need good keyboard driven >> approaches, people are not going to be mixing multitrack audio on >> android phones for a while yet. > > Oh, but I wasn't referring to phones :) The kind of devices I was > referring to can be spotted here: > > http://cs5.org/?p=232 i've seen these devices around for a while. i can imagine mixing on such a device, but i'm also unconvinced that its *necessarily* better for such work than using a keyboard. i also have a lot of criticism of the way multitouch surfaces have been used for music "composition" to date, most of which don't apply to the idea of using them to control software like the stuff currently used by most people. finally, i think that doing visual art with multitouch is qualititatively different from using multitouch in conjunction with our other senses. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
