new midi controller: gypsy motion sensor

*sigh* · Post by ***sigh*** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:13 pm

Anyone actually seen one of these babies in action? £500 for the ultimate solution to the "checking your email" look most of us laptop jockeys are so good at.

http://www.sonalog.com/videos.htm

It would be like learning to play another instrument all over again though. What I like about computer music is that we, the uncoordinated, are released from the restraints of kinesthetic learning. Just because I can't play a piano doen't mean I can't get that sound in my tracks when I need it.

Still want one though. (gypsy, not a piano)

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:17 pm

The movements for it are a bit hazy imo.
Might as well use d-beams.

But i guess it's another step closer to being able to compose in virtual reality.
A holographic piano. yummy.....

*sigh* · Post by ***sigh*** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:22 pm

yeah I thought it was bit imprecise

the fact he only had 4 notes on the synth was a bit depressing...still. at least you look like you're doing something on stage.

martin808 · Post by **martin808** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:33 pm

are you joking?

imagine how much of a spanner you would look with that on stage!!!

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... sc&start=0

*sigh* · Post by ***sigh*** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:59 pm

thanks for the headsup on the other post... I did a search before posting but "I guess what we have here is a failure to communicate."

I thought looking like a spanner was part of the fun of performing? Of course these people are from Brighton and so allowed to do this kind of shit. Not that you would find me in on Espedair Street trying to impress the punters of deepest Paisley with it

Toufas · Post by **Toufas** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:22 pm

site looks the same as ableton.com

the dj video looks stupid btw

unusable · Post by **unusable** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:50 pm

Toufas wrote:site looks the same as ableton.com

I was thinking the exact same thing as I watched all those jpeg's loading up...

martin808 · Post by **martin808** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:52 pm

*sigh* wrote:thanks for the headsup on the other post... I did a search before posting but "I guess what we have here is a failure to communicate."

I thought looking like a spanner was part of the fun of performing? Of course these people are from Brighton and so allowed to do this kind of shit. Not that you would find me in on Espedair Street trying to impress the punters of deepest Paisley with it

yo, where you from? how come you know paisley?

telekom · Post by **telekom** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:58 pm

Aye, I thought when I signed up for this forum they said "Right! You're the last Paisley f***er who gets on this forum!" You mean there are others?

Oh shit, blew my cover...

martin808 · Post by **martin808** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:59 pm

telekom, are you in paisley?

*sigh* · Post by ***sigh*** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:04 pm

heh -Londoner now

I used to work at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, only for a bit, mind.

Also Espedair Street was one of my favourite Iain Banks novels from several years before, I didn't put the two together until I walked down the very road.

Still one of the best accents IMHO

martin808 · Post by **martin808** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:10 pm

i was born in the RAH. I've got a flat in paisley quite close to the town centre. I split my time between here and my girlfriends flat in lovely govanhill.

mcconaghy · Post by **mcconaghy** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 8:10 pm

telekom wrote:Aye, I thought when I signed up for this forum they said "Right! You're the last Paisley f***er who gets on this forum!" You mean there are others?

Oh shit, blew my cover...

Not just you, mate, I was born in Paisley (of all places)