Comments on: Russian Programmable Calculator, Controlling Ableton Live

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Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:27:09 +0000

[...] DIY controllers like the arcade button hardware below, and bizarre oddities like calculators and arcade cabinets and blenders and Osterizers (above). So, in celebration of New York installment [...]

By: Zinus

Zinus — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:53:19 +0000

Hallo!
Sorry all fo my bad english.

We a UKRAINIANS! Russian language at our site is for them, who come in without knowledge about our Country and our language.
Welcome to UA!

About MK52:
his buttons is in positions like clips in Ableton Live, so this was a target in creation.
:) bad kbd -> good organized controller.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:52:59 +0000

Does the calculator still work, or did they have to gut it?

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:56:48 +0000

@regend: Why choose?

By: regend

regend — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:51:43 +0000

wait…why would you want to controller ableton live when you can control a Soyuz with device?

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:04:24 +0000

Sorry, that should be, “calculator as oscillator”

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:03:16 +0000

Keyboard as oscillator – no vid yet
http://www.fundamentalfrequency.com/hardware/canola/
The layout of the notes makes some things really hard but encourages other, less usual intervals

By: Luca De Rosso

Luca De Rosso — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:22:33 +0000

It looks interesting to me! Is quite useful to have a grid based interaction for samples, especially using Ableton.
The only problem is that, having a device which is viewed by the laptop as a keyboard makes the real keyboard almost useless since the visual map is different and you risk to mess up everything! But I like this tests anyway!

By: samu

samu — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:20:31 +0000

I want a Curta-based Live controller. Please, someone, anyone!

By: Peter Helms

Peter Helms — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:36:31 +0000

Hi Peter
As you maybe know the russians are a quite poetic people..:) the text says:(Directly translated)
“In the beggining it was freezing
Then came the pre new years house cleaning.
Then a programmable microcalculator fell out of the closet.
After that a genius qwerty usb keybord fell out.
They fell out on the top of each other and stayed like that for a couple of minutes.
And they exchanged their fluids.
Now the calculator has an USB interface, but the keyboard lacks its brains.
But the most important thing: atleast now the program ableton Live can be adressed in its human session language”

the folowing coments are too amazing and will only work in russian..
great stuff:)