MIT Students' Audiopad Mixes Electronic Music 122
nicodemus05 writes "Grad students at MIT's Media Lab have come up with an innovative control device called the Audiopad to run their digital music studio. The Audiopad, '...is a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music.' It's practical, but more importantly it looks really, really cool."
Re:The interface is amazing.. (Score:2, Informative)
- stefan
Re:Its practical (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.thereminworld.com/learn.asp
KFG
Re:Its practical (Score:3, Informative)
Theremin (Score:5, Informative)
If you want to wave your arms around [thereminworld.com] to make music, you still can't beet a Theremin.
different site with video (Score:3, Informative)
The ideas in this aren't all that amazing (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Done before? (Score:3, Informative)
I believe you can use it as a midi controller as well, but again you're going to be pretty limited (I guess a couple of continuous controllers?). My understanding of the article is that the MIT thing is a lot more flexible.
Coming soon to a toy store near you... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Is that a big Wacom tablet? (Score:3, Informative)