Great touch-screen Live display cheap!

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 12:19 pm

I got one of these at ebuyer.com for £114 brand new:

http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/Specs ... Id=1666974

Although only 1024 x 768, it's fully touch-screen active (PC only, unfortunately), and the screen tilts back almost flat so it's not a barrier between you and the crowd and easier to control. And because you can scribble all over it to control Live or whatever, it is very tough and allegedly water (beer?) proof.

Chris J · Post by **Chris J** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 12:37 pm

sounds amazing. So what can you actually control in live ?
when you push the triangle in a clip, it launches it or something ?

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 12:43 pm

Just use the pen on the screen like you'd use a mouse and button. I guess all tablet monitors work this way.

Meef Chaloin · Post by **Meef Chaloin** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 1:05 pm

bloody hell thats cool

Chris J · Post by **Chris J** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 1:08 pm

hambone1 wrote:Just use the pen on the screen like you'd use a mouse and button. I guess all tablet monitors work this way.

ah you can't use your fingers ? too bad, that'd be really cool

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:53 pm

you should be able to use your fingers - it is a touch screen after all. A pen just adds some precision to the mix.

janklug · Post by **janklug** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 3:35 pm

i sometimes use a magic touch laptop add-on touchscreen: http://www.magictouch.com
but not (directly) with live. unless you sharpen your fingernails, fingers are just too unprecise for live's slots...

mostly, you don't even see what you're targeting at, as the finger already covers 3 slots

and if you're just 1 millimeter off (so no moving to the rythm

) you'll hit the wrong slot..

the only way i could imagine this to work with Live is to use a very big [touch]screen & [at least] double the screen output size..

jan

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:27 pm

or you could invest $8 and get a finger stylus.

just google or froogle "finger stylus"

you could get like 5 of them and do some crazy Ani Difranco style LCD strumming.

(if anyone got that joke, i'll be amazed)

janklug · Post by **janklug** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:33 pm

(if anyone got that joke, i'll be amazed)

well, i don't get it, but i like it anyway

(do these finger stylus things exist as glow-in-the-dark-version?

)

jan

MrSleep · Post by **MrSleep** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 2:55 am

AdamJay. i was thinking of something like that as i was scrolling down, then lo & behold!!! you post a pic.

yeah.., i'll take ten of them thanks.

Freakybeatz · Post by **Freakybeatz** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 3:02 am

Hambone..!

Whats the Link on ebuyer I cant find it anywhere!!!

Cheers

Freakybeatz

::mic-minimal:: · Post by **::mic-minimal::** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 3:10 am

AdamJay wrote:or you could invest $8 and get a finger stylus.

just google or froogle "finger stylus"

you could get like 5 of them and do some crazy Ani Difranco style LCD strumming.

(if anyone got that joke, i'll be amazed)

folk music ie: ani defranco strumming the guitar

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 8:31 am

AdamJay wrote:you could get like 5 of them and do some crazy Ani Difranco style LCD strumming.

Heh. Nice one..! You'd probably break it quite quickly if you played it like her, though...

Michael-SW · Post by **Michael-SW** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 7:18 pm

Another cool idea would be to use e. g. Synthedit to build a more performance oriented interface with LARGE buttons and sliders that sends MIDI to Live. Then you could be controlling Live through your own custom interface.

Who needs the Lemur?

(I know it is multi touch, but I could live without that.)

Michael-SW · Post by **Michael-SW** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 7:41 pm

Next idea: Sine the cheap touch monotors seems to be gone from ebuyer (damn!), you could probably build one yourself pretty cheaply.

Get a used 14" flat screen (must be pretty cheap nowadays), use one of the add-on touch controllers janklug mentions (see above) and build it into a small console.

Then you design your own interface in Synthedit. Your own Lemur!