God, I am so sick of them. Grid controllers with blank, featureless, non velocity- or pressure-sensitive buttons everywhere. THESE ARE UNIFORMLY TERRIBLE. People who produce these miss the basic tenets of good instrument interface design, the first of which is NEVER DON'T BE SENSITIVE! If you were curious about the second one, it's NEVER DON'T BE INFORMATIVE! Give musicians EXPRESSIVITY and PLENTY OF INFORMATION so they can play, well, expressively and don't have to expend cognitive effort remembering what any particular blank control does at a given moment (and yes, of course I know about Push, but it only works properly with Live and has no polyphonic aftertouch, as well as the same blank buttons I'm complaining about here.)
In the case of devices with lots of buttons on them which are intended as musical controllers, making them incapable of any kind of touch sensitivity and not giving them any display capability IS STUPID and renders them largely useless for anything other than the dumbest on/off capabilities.
To recap:
THIS is stupid:
..and THIS is REALLY stupid:
In the case of devices with lots of buttons on them which are intended as musical controllers, making them incapable of any kind of touch sensitivity and not giving them any display capability IS STUPID and renders them largely useless for anything other than the dumbest on/off capabilities.
To recap:
THIS is stupid:
..and THIS is REALLY stupid:
However, THIS is definitely the right idea. Too bad it's fake and seemingly can't exist yet, given the current state of the art in materials (I would love to be proven wrong about that, btw.) Just for the record. I would happily help fund a kickstarter campaign for this product, if anyone out there figured out a way to do it - click the image:
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment