Comments on: Macworld: Multi-Touch Apple Music Device Still to Come?

By: Create Digital Music » More Apple Patents Suggest New Music App, Musical Instrument?

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:37:04 +0000

[...] Multi-touch Music, a la Lemur? It sounds a lot like the iPhone, but as I noted shortly after Macworld, this particular patent has Dr. Lengeling’s name right alongside Jonathan Ive’s, and describes elaborate audio mixers and music keyboards and sophisticated multi-touch gestures. None of these would be possible on the tiny iPhone screen. [...]

By: Create Digital Music » Rumor Mill: No Logic 8; New “Pro Tools Killer” Instead?

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:03:46 +0000

[...] Will it have a touchscreen? This seems like wishful thinking, but there’s one reason to believe it might be true. Apple’s iPhone turned out to be just a phone/iPod/browser, so I doubt you’ll be integrating it with Logic, much as we might like. But remember Apple’s multi-touch tablet patent? It specifically showed a music mixer application. This could mean one of two things: one, it was a research idea that got abandoned, but spread through the grapevine starting this rumor. Or, two, maybe we will see a multi-touch music controller from Apple. It’s an extremely unlikely possibility, but I wouldn’t rule it out entirely, especially with multi-touch tech getting used on the iPhone. [...]

By: meir

meir — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:42:43 +0000

i real want it my dream
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By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:35:20 +0000

Absolutely; I love the dual-finger moves on the trackpad. (Optional, but you can even right-click with two fingers.) Of course, all of these are features of the Synaptics touchpad hardware; Apple just chose to take advantage of them.

By: Alexandre dAlbergaria

Alexandre dAlbergaria — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:19:22 +0000

What about the macbook new trackpad? You can use two fingers to scroll horizontaly and verticaly.

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