On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:56:13, mirweis SANGIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Finally the very creative and forwardthinking firm JazzMutant have > long ago proposed multi-touch screen products that have nothing to > envy to the iPhone. It consist of a touchscreen musical interface > completely reconfigurable to suit every specific interaction needs of > the music producers and live-performers.
You can *buy* the Lemur now. : ) If you've got a spare $2k laying around, heh. With regards to your concern about the next step:"physical knobs > automatically reconfigure when you switch applications". I may say > that musical devices already integrated motorized knobs and sliders > that can instantly reconfigure to fit presets or different > pre-programmed configurations. Considering the fact that innovations > are mainly about "re-configurating", "mixing" and "remixing" > existing technologies, I can say with a certain level of confidence > that conceptually, such affordance already exists and only needs to > be creatively implemented. Oh yes, I'm definitely aware of that. Used to have an 01v. : ) But back in the days when motorized faders first came about, they used existing tech like electric motors to make it happen. The tricky bit was the control logic. In modern times, we've got the logic down, but we'd need completely new tech to accomplish this physical/spatial reconfiguration. Like sci-fi tech. : ) Random thought: You know what would be cool? A conference specifically designed to bring IxDs and leading-edge engineers together to co-evolve our practices... to let IxDs creativity run wild with the possibilities leading edge tech can bring... to let engineers' creativity run wild with trying to make the wacky stuff IxDs come up with actually happen... Okay, back to the topic... One interesting auto-configuring product out there is Novation's REmote SL, which (ostensibly, i've never physically played with it) automatically reconfigures itself based on the track/application that you select. The configuration isn't physical, but still this solves a *huge* problem for electronic musicians and really helps transform a computer from a business machine into an *instrument.* Very cool. http://www.novationmusic.com/products/midi_control/remote_sl/ F. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
