What I reckon would sort me out is one of those tablet PCs with the touch screens - particularly the ones that are made with heavy rubber padding around them to make them robust and resilient.
That way you could just lay the "screen" part of the laptop flat out in front of you, and control it by touching the screen. In Ableton that would work really well, I reckon; just put your finger on one of the faders, move it up & down, then grab the crossfader and wiggle it about. Because it doesn't use right mouse buttons I don't think there'd be any real problems with using it through a touch-screen interface. >From the point of view of the audience, it wouldn't be a hell of a lot different from watching someone work a turntable; one of the big problems with laptop performances is that the screen is positioned like a barrier between the artist and the crowd. Lay the screen out flat in front of the artist and it might as well be a 1200 for all the audience care. The drawback is that you couldn't do more than one thing at once - if that got sorted, though, and you had the equivalent of four mouse pointers running at once, that'd be a pretty good way of controlling Ableton. Chuck away the mouse and all your MIDI peripherals and just use the screen itself as the "virtual mixer"... Brendan > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 03 December 2004 15:38 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: (313) Sasha > > > >Alex, are you assigning things to laptop keys as well? > > I am indeed David. > > >Personally, I wish I could just highlight a channel without using the > mouse, so I could see which effects are on or >off before I > bring in a new > clip on the channel. > > You can! (I think - if I understand you correctly) > > you can assign it to the keys. I have my channels on the > keyboard on the > qwerty line... e.g. press Q and the channel is highlighted > and you can see > what effects are on or off. > > ta > > alex > > _________________________________________________________________ > --------------------- End of message text -------------------- > > This e-mail is sent by the above named in > their individual, non-business capacity and > is not on behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. > > PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP may monitor > outgoing and incoming e-mails and other > telecommunications on its e-mail and > telecommunications systems. By replying > to this e-mail you give your consent to such monitoring. > >
