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Hey everybody, a big hand for Phil - the pioneering pusher on this mailing list! :-) Looking forward to hear about your first impressions. If I had the money I too would pick one up right now on the intro deal. Per On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Philip Conway <Philip.Conway@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > I pre-ordered Push yesterday. It's a sizable lump of money for a > controller > - especially one that I haven't been able to try out first hand - but I > couldn't resist the introductory offer. It'll be here in just 12-14 > weeks!... > > I'm quite excited about its potential as an instrument. One appealing > thing > is that, if the early reviews are to be believed, it is very well made > and > feels heavy and solid. This is no small thing for a musical instrument. > It's much easier to 'lose yourself' and get into 'the zone', as they > say, if > you're playing something that just feels solid and high quality, rather > than > flimsy and plasticy. And, for me, whether or not you can 'lose > yourself' in > an instrument is ultimately the marker of whether it's any good or not. > > In many ways Push makes much more sense than a traditional keyboard for > performing and composing electronic music since it allows any scalar > mapping > of notes and makes that mapping intuitive by providing visual feedback. > In > this way it seems to let the player find relationships between notes and > sounds that don't rigidly adhere to the c-major scale structure of the > piano-style keyboard. > > This is how it should be for electronic music, which is not being > limited to > the physical mechanisms of objects like the piano. The piano keyboard > was > an elegant invention but it resulted to some degree from the physical > requirements of whacking strings with little hammers. Electronic music > is > completely free from such physical connections but, with some expensive > exceptions (e.g. the Haken Continuum), instrument or interface design has > lagged a long way behind what programmers and sound designers have > achieved. > > Push looks like a step in the right direction in that respect. It's not > revolutionary in concept but it appears to have been very well done - at > least I hope so! > > > > Philip. > > > --On 07 March 2013 12:15 +0100 Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:36 AM, michael noble <looplog@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> http://www.weareroli.com/ >>> >>> Anyone know anything more about this company or the controller? >> >> >> >> Looks cool, like a "piano submarine" :-) A little thin on information >> that page, isn't it? From the video it seems as notes are located in >> linear way, similar to a piano? >> >> I must say I'm more intrigued by Ableton's new instrument Push, due to >> its non linear location of notes. The chromatic scale layout on Push >> is based on rows differing by a fourths and this creates what to me >> seems to very playable note locations. In fact, the hand patterns are >> the same as if tapping a fourths tuned fretted string instrument. >> Another aspect I like with the Push is that some notes appear at >> several positions and can be played in unison but with different >> attack/expression, this too in common with fretted string instruments. >> >> I've been using an Akai EWI4000s for some years and think it is the >> most (musically) expressive MIDI controller instruments I've come >> across. Since it is based on breath control rather than >> hitting-something-with-a-hand velocity it a challenge to program good >> synth patches to play. I think Yamaha was great in the 80s with breath >> control but since then not much product development seems to have >> happend im this area. THat's odd, thinking about how a simple hose to >> blow into increases the expressiveness of any simple keyboard. >> >> Greetings from Sweden >> >> Per Boysen >> www.perboysen.com >> http://www.youtube.com/perboysen >> > > > >