On 01/23/2010 06:10 PM, david wrote: Thanks for the link. Very cool. I'll have to pay him a visit sometime soon. Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 looks, like this one did not get thru - please ignore if you should have get it.... Am 23.01.2010 08:10, schrieb david: Its basically a gentoo-tablet with a fretboard attached. The fretboard, whatsoever is not much more than what you find in gaming-interfaces. It does neither allow bendings nor hammering or tapping. The Touchpad allows for triggering notes with differing velocity and can control 3 more parameters via MIDI-CC. Since touching the pad always has to trigger a note to do something hearable this breks down to 3 parameters in total since velocity will be doubeled. Since the firmware is open it should be possible to add some more controls but the problem is, that the pad is not pressure-sensitive so you will allways get on/off only... not to mention the limitations of the fretboard that is not much more then a note-namer So it seems to me a toy, that could be a nice-to-have but compared to what one can achieve with a Zeta plus kaos-pad or a wavedrum it is not in the same league. The maker of the device does not react very relaxed to criticism. Yesterday I asked him about these limitations in his forum. He reacted quite allergic, stating that I would not be competent enough to judge his instrument for I would lack the knowledge in electronic music. Later another visitor joined the discussion, backing my point of view. Shortly after that the forum was closed.... we'll see, what will happen, if the device is being shipped and the first user-reviews rush in...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 23.01.2010 08:10, schrieb david: Its basically a gentoo-tablet with a fretboard attached. The fretboard, whatsoever is not much more than what you find in gaming-interfaces. It does neither allow bendings nor hammering or tapping. The Touchpad allows for triggering notes with differing velocity and can control 3 more parameters via MIDI-CC. Since touching the pad always has to trigger a note to do something hearable this breks down to 3 parameters in total since velocity will be doubeled. Since the firmware is open it should be possible to add some more controls but the problem is, that the pad is not pressure-sensitive so you will allways get on/off only... not to mention the limitations of the fretboard that is not much more then a note-namer So it seems to me a toy, that could be a nice-to-have but compared to what one can achieve with a Zeta plus kaos-pad or a wavedrum it is not in the same league. The maker of the device does not react very relaxed to criticism. Yesterday I asked him about these limitations in his forum. He reacted quite allergic, stating that I would not be competent enough to judge his instrument for I would lack the knowledge in electronic music. Later another visitor joined the discussion, backing my point of view. Shortly after that the forum was closed.... we'll see, what will happen, if the device is being shipped and the first user-reviews rush in...