Re: Audio D-Touch...

[Mech <mech@m3ch.net>]

Reactable!  Yeah, I knew there was a better product for comparison 
than the Percussa Audiocubes, but couldn't recall what it was at that 
moment.

Thanks for jogging my memory, Raul!  :)

(p.s. wasn't the reactable like wicked expensive when it finally came 
out? i know the audiocubes ain't exactly cheap.)

        --m.


At 7:08 AM +0200 9/9/09, Raul Bonell wrote:
>looks like a chinese reactable ...
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><http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm_FzLya8y4>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm_FzLya8y4
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>2009/9/9 Mech <<mailto:mech@m3ch.net>mech@m3ch.net>
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>Okay, this could be kinda cool...
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><http://www.d-touch.org/audio/>http://www.d-touch.org/audio/
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>"Audio d-touch is a collection of applications for real-time musical 
>composition and performance, with very special user interfaces. The 
>collection includes a drum machine and a sampling sequencer, both 
>are controlled by spatially arranging physical objects on an 
>interactive table surface. Each object represents a sound, and its 
>position with respect to the surface is mapped to certain playback 
>parameters...."
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>Watch the video.  It's kinda like a cheap, DIY set of audiocubes, or 
>some other visual/physical interaction device.
>
>It might be a little unwieldy, but I think it could possibly be used 
>for Live Looping performances, given a little customization.  It 
>would probably be excellent for vocal loopers and other performers 
>who have their hands free.  Plus, you can probably run a parallel 
>feed off the webcam and give your audience something visual as well.
>
>I know the Max/MSP set will be quick to jump in and point out that 
>this sort of thing has been available with Jitter for a while.  I 
>know, I know.  But not all of us can program in Max (yet!) and, 
>heck, this is free...  ;)
>
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