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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
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Buchla from the past is still steps ahead of anything offered these days. Only thing I can think of comparable is the Lemur...
ReplyDeleteEverything else is just sliders and knobs. Oh, and how about the mouse: we've been using that computer control device since the 60's or 70's. Wouldn't it be nice to find alternatives that are more than the equivalent of an arm and an index finger and the opposable thumb?
Come on everybody, let's keep these brains movin' ;)
The mouse since the 60's or 70's ?
ReplyDeleteyou must be joking
try to mix your levels with this buchla controller ...
The sliders are the only way . Virtual ( lemur ) or real ones
I just picked up a Monome 40h, and man, is that one crazy contraption. It's one of the most unique tactile interfaces I've ever used, and they've got some cool little sequencing/sampling apps you can use right out of the box. It also works very nicely with Ableton Live, as well as a different sort of general midi controller.
ReplyDeleteSure, it's no Lemur, but it has made me re-think controllers and software interfacing in a very interesting way. These guys did a good job - at least somebody's brains are movin'.
Fun stuff; I haven't slept much since I got it. I'm going to try to make some videos soon.
James-
ReplyDeleteGo here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse
to learn more about the "mouse" and the chronology of it's conception.
Whether or not it was a common household item is a different story.
And yes, of course, sliders are wonderful and work quite nicely for levels, virtual or otherwise...
Anonyme , are you stupid ?
ReplyDeleteI knew that 3 people were using mouse on a computer in the 70' s.
I think there are not so much using a Buchla Thunder in 2007 lol
James-
ReplyDeleteGet an education...
anonyme, give your name
ReplyDeletethat' s the beginning of education
Wikipedia sez:
ReplyDeleteThe first integrated mouse — shipped as a part of a computer and intended for personal computer navigation — came with Xerox Star 1981.
Well, sorry to disagree with "james", but I definitely used a computer with a mouse in the late 1970's. I think it was a lab of Xerox Alto's, in the Computer Science Dept. at Carnegie-Mellon University.
ReplyDeleteAnd I do also have a Buchla Thunder, which I got in 1991 I think, though it's been broken and packed away for some years now.
It does have a bunch of sliders on it, by the way, and you could program them to send MIDI control changes, so you could actually control like 10 different levels in realtime, one with each finger, if you had them mapped to the right control codes for your software on your MIDI-attached PC.
Chris Koenigsberg