Re: [LAU] Something like "midicontroller" GUI for OSC?

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 11:11:30AM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: When I'm losing money, I usually fold. This time I tried something different: I "doubled down". I bought a Novation Remote 61 SL. Under *warranty*. It rules. The UI on this thing is AMAZING. It's got two 2x256 character LCD displays. It's *verbose*, designed for people who understand and remember words better than numbers. Very clear. I counted a total of 78 fully-assignable buttons/knobs/sliders/rotaries/pedals. It also seems *much* better made than any of M-Audio's cheap plastic crap. The keyboard action feels like a 1980's-era Roland or Yamaha synth. Thanks. I also discovered GriPD too. But now that I have the Novation, I'm going to concentrate on getting that running. Nice, thanks! Also, I'm finding the stuff that Lars is working on with dbus, to be intriguing too. My fantasy now is a keyboard controller that has a control surface and keyboard much like the Novation, but has an 10/100/1000 Ethernet, WiFi, or BlueTooth interface instead of MIDI or USB, and communicates using dbus and/or OSC natively. The advantage is that you wouldn't need weird SysEx hacks or proprietary software in order to make use of the "automap template" feature that the Novation does. A keyboard like that could run off of a Gumstix running linux, so it most definitely will get developed by someone, someday. Actually, now that I think of it, instead of knobs/buttons/sliders, a 640x480 touchscreen might be a better bet, and multitouch once the price of those comes down. - -ken