Keith McMillen Instruments K-Bow

Keith McMillen Instruments. Update: the Link http://www.keithmcmillen.com/products/k-bow he K-Bow gives a detailed measure of every aspect of your playing. XYZ 3D Accelerometer – measures the playing force and angle of the bow Hair Tension Sensor – detects how hard the bow presses against the strings Grip Pressure Sensor – gives a measure of how hard you are gripping the bow Bow to Fingerboard – a measure of the distance you are playing from the fingerboard via the antennas embedded in the bow Bow Length – by interacting with the included…

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Livid Instruments Block looks like Monome

Livid Instruments creates new Monome-style Controller. a bit like Ohm but without Faders, except 2 and q row of knobs (thanks for keeping some). Made for Live & Max since it is again no standard for Sequencers – but could become one, till then we need to be aware what software and drivers are added to the hardware and how the hardware is implemented. most try Max/MSP which is not a really „simple“ way but the obvious one.. this one is at 399 US$ – Thats 268€ but expect taxes…

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Novation Launchpad (offizielle deutsche press info inkl Werbetext)

Der perfekte Controller für „Ableton Live“: Novation stellt „Launchpad“ vor Sehr cooles Video / Very very  cool Video Demo – this thing is for unter 200€: 199€. Harhar. (nicht 179, not 179€)! and no, this is not APC and no monome, it’s not a sequencer but you could make it one!! http://www.ableton.com/launchpad Novations einzigartiger Kompakt-Controller „Launchpad“ wurde zusammen von Novation und Ableton speziell für „Ableton Live“ entworfen, um eine optimale Interaktion mit den ungezählten Features der Musikproduktions-Software „Live“ zu ermöglichen. Ebenso kann „Launchpad“ aber auch mit jeder anderen DAW-Software als Standard-MIDI-Controller…

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Akai APC40 Customization

Very interesting changes and modicications to the APC40. Looks like most Akai Products need only to be tweaked a bit to be really near pefect. This works the way I expected it to work without the mod ;) YouTube – Akai APC40 Customization. Info of the project: http://beatwise.proboards.com.. (für PC / for Windows) and for real Computers (oops) / Gibt es auch für Mac: http://beatwise.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=production&action=display&thread=294 Hat zur Zeit 4 verschiedene Modi: 1. Normal 2. Navigation mit Undo,Redo,Copy,Paste,Dupl,verschiedene Focus Einstellungen, Zoom in den Browser etc pp 3. Drummode: Drumpads wie bei…

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Snyderphonics Manta Touch Sensor Controller w. LED

Manta is a controller with 48 touch sensors (buchla like) and also sensor sliders . all with LEDs – so it might be a nice monome „killer“ or something different. not really cheap$675, but looks like a cool Controller.. List of some more Controllers:  Alternative_Controller * 48 touch sensors in a 6 X 8 hexagonal array – each sensor can independently send both continuous control data and note-on/off events with velocity sensitivity simultaneously Snyderphonics Instruments – products. inspired by matrixsynth post.6/03/2009 09:00:00 AM btw: Like these noise sources as well:…

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padKontrol Monomulator for PadKontrol & APC – like Monome

TrackTeam Audio is proud to present Monomulator, a Monome 40h emulator for your Korg PadKontrol. Up Till now you needed a Monome to enjoy all of those nice community inspired Monome Apps. Now you can use these apps with your PadKontrol. Monomulator is a light non-cpu intense application that utilizes the PadKontrol’s Native Mode. Monomulator receives SYSEX from the padKontrol and converts it to OSC messages that can be read by Monome Apps. To Download: You will see where to download the file. Enjoy! Right now OS X only. Windows version coming,…

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