Comments on: Video: DJing and VJing with Nintendo Wii Remote

By: DR. Spock invents new dj tool at djtechtools.com

DR. Spock invents new dj tool at djtechtools.com — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:08:59 +0000

[...] Apparently, they have been working on this since 2002 but it looks like a really bad corporate super bowl ring to me. Apparently this allows you to scratch in the air and jump to different points of the song using hand movements. Sick!! Some folks have also been working on this idea but using the Nintendo WII platform as a dj tool. [...]

By: felix

felix — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:25:53 +0000

To me it looked like the more he waved the wiimote, the glitchier the sound got. Of course this could have been a phantom pattern generated by my brain.

Any infos on who the artist is, what music he was playing?

BTW - nice site!

By: Stefan

Stefan — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:52:15 +0000

I guess only the Myspace “equalizer” gives me less of a correlational feeling then that guy waving around some piece of white plastic supposedly influencing the sound output.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:22:26 +0000

I tend to agree, but we have a number of different elements:

* Hardware latency (which I’ve found to be fairly minimal)
* How to use something rather indirect (accelerometer!) for control — which could add additional perceived latency
* How it feels to play the thing
* What people perceive

To me, the perception is the least important — I’ve written music for dance that doesn’t really fit with the dance, in which people add the correlation; that can be exciting to me. But we’re clearly not to the point where this thing feels great to play; that is important. I think it’s a matter of doing something useful with the input data, and it’s not easy.

Back to patching/programming. ;)

By: Carl Lumma

Carl Lumma — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 02:02:47 +0000

I dunno, nothing in this video makes it obvious the wiimote is even hooked up. Kinda like those iTunes visualizations that really don’t react to what we hear in music very well. Of course our brain is aggressive in detecting correlations, even when none exist. I once informally quizzed people at a party with Winamp, with the visualizations running off a different audio source than the music being heard, and they all said the performance of the visualization was very good.

The “latency” apparent in the other wiimote/music demos I’ve seen also has been disappointing.

-Carl

By: Joaquins Musikblog

Joaquins Musikblog — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:52:48 +0000

DJ mit Nintenod Wii-Remote

Und ein weiteres Beispiel, dass sich die Nntendo Wii-Remote, zum musizieren und Steuern in der Musik, immer mehr Freunde macht.

Wärend die Musikindustrie immer wieder auf der Suche, nach geeigneten und neuen Steuergeräten ist, kaufen sich Musikschaf

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:30:09 +0000

We’ve got lots more NAMM news. I thought I’d give us a brief break before digging back into the press release stack. I expect we won’t have gotten through all the major stuff until the end of next week. Josh, our roving reporter, has had limited Web access, so we’ll have photos and stories from him, as well.

The new recorders both came from Korg, one ultra-portable, one semi-portable.

Hmmm, Thom, you’re giving me ideas … if I can just have enough stuff to wave at people to distract them… excellent. ;)

By: Thom

Thom — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:41:40 +0000

This piece should have been about how the Wii-mote can be use to distract people from shit music.

“Ignore the music…just watch me wave this around like a monkey.”

By: maleman

maleman — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:29:20 +0000

Hey, this is off-topic, but what I’d *really* like to hear is some news on the portable recorder front… any updates or new compactflash offerings??? A MicroTrack II?

By: CM

CM — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:23:38 +0000

The guy next is also looks to be rocking the DS, probably the wireless MIDI app.