Comments on: Mainstream Multi-Touch is Coming, And It’ll Rock for Music

By: Kyle McDonald

Kyle McDonald — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:04:07 +0000

There are some basic solutions to haptic feedback based on tactile illusions (pdf): for example, if you have a solenoid behind the screen you perceive a "tap" from the solenoid similarly to a button depressing. More complex feedback while probably be worn in gloves at first instead of embedded in screens.

By: Steve M

Steve M — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:09:20 +0000

Multitouch isn’t just on the iPhone, both the Macbook Pro & Air support scrolling and zooming. I’d assume they’re going to take this technology further. I’m not convinced MSFT has a leg up here, they’ve only shown technology demos so far (and most of these based on ideas we’ve aleady seen), Apple has shipping products…

Anyway the fact that they are both doing this is good, competition benefits us all. Like you you say most interesting developments will come from the little guys. Saw someone has developed s/w for the iPhone for controlling for Ableton Live.

Music could be the most ripe area for multitouch development, how many other (fairly) everyday activities use so many ‘points of contact’at once?

By: Tim Thompson

Tim Thompson — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:55:13 +0000

While having a display under a multitouch interface is really useful, I think it’s causing most people to think of it only as a replacement for mousing/resizing/sliders/controls/etc, overlooking the potential multitouch has to implement an *instrument*. Think how much expressiviness and flexibility you have in your fingers. Think finger-painting, or sculpting. Every finger is at least 3 controllers – x, y, and pressure (or area). You’ve got 30 controllers in two hands. People use fretless string instruments without needing to look at their hands, so I don’t think tactile feedback is an absolute requirement. Responsiveness/latency of a multitouch interface is a big issue in making it an instrument, no doubt. But equally big is just getting people to think of multitouch as more than just a mouse or slider replacement.

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Touch me Baby one more Time at djtechtools.com — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:06:36 +0000

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By: Jay Vaughan

Jay Vaughan — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:27:12 +0000

Well, multi-touch is cool and all, but only because its well packaged.

You can do cheap, easy, ‘touchy feely’ haptic computer interfaces with webcams too, but thats not a fun ergonomic .. so when its packed into a nice object that gets warm in your pocket and is often cool to touch, that is the ticket to rock.

Of course, consumer music making, mainstream music making, has to be reliable too. I dunno how I feel about the feedback of multitouch right now .. but it sure is a hell of a lot more interesting to watch.

By: runagate

runagate — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:39:26 +0000

Sweet mother of god it’s coming!

I had a touchscreen that broke.
It wasn’t so good.

But when I bought it for $180 USD I researched a way to get multitouch. There’s an Australian bluetooth 1Ghz multi touchscreen/weak PC for $4000… I cannot wait to get my hands on this. My whole live setup is based around getting my hands on the GUIs.

insertpizhere, in particular, has some amazing touchscreen-ready freeware VSTs for PC.

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By: proem

proem — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:30:18 +0000

actually the nearness of multi-touch becoming mainstream is the Reason i picked up a tablet PC for live shows

the Lemur is awesome.
i want one
in the worst way
Royalties alone will not pay for one for me

the Lemur was what originally powered my love for “alternative” interfaces…

well that and minority Report

By: MonksDream

MonksDream — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:37:11 +0000

(MS – Sorry about that. My tagging skills are rusty! )

Ohhhh!! THAT explains the demise of the light pen! It’s obvious now you say it but I’ve been wondering about it since the Fairlight article. Comfy wins over precision in this case.

By: MonksDream

MonksDream — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:34:13 +0000

Ohhhh!! THAT explains the demise of the light pen! It's obvious now you say it but I've been wondering about it since the . Comfy wins over precision in this case.