On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, david wrote:
saw this design and first thing I thought of was using it to make music. http://www.wired.com/2014/10/sliders-knobs-dials-give-tablet-physical-interface/
The designer thought it would be good for music too. One has to look at gains VS losses. All that is gained is tactile touch. What is lost is visual feedback, that is with so little realestate one would want to be able to switch banks and the faders would not work with that. The knobs could, but the visual refference of seeing where the new bank settings were would be lost. Changing configuration takes way too much time for stage use and even in the studio it would be frustrating. For mere tactile feel... that is knowing that your finger is in a certain place, a clear template with slots would work better, though I do not know if it would be better enough than a blank touch screen to make it worth while. Certainly it would be cheaper though. It also makes the device a one application device. For example running both a recorder and a remote mixer could not be done. A "clip-board" with a smart phone and a small midi controller might work better.
There are some things where visual feedback would be very nice. A touchpad can be a wonderful tool for some of these things. Limiting it by covering it's screen just doesn't make sense unless you have more than one screen... and then a dedicated midi controller wins anyway.
My 2 cents... -- Len Ovens www.ovenwerks.net _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
