Ok, this is just sooooo cool: The Jazzmutant Lemur, a poly touch-screen based controller unit made by some wacky French guys! Now, this might seem like a silly thing at first glance, but for those of us who indulge in electronic music escapades and aren't keyboard virtousos it could open up a heap of sweet live manipulation possibilities for our software synths and sequencers...
...IF we could afford one. At 2000 Euros (what's that, 2600-700 dollars?) it is pretty much out of my price range, at least for now. Also, it doesn't transmit MIDI, but uses the OpenSound protocol. A "translation layer" will of course solve that problem, but I still get the feeling this is made for the Max/MSP crowd and their close followers. Fine with me, but it does bring up images of über-artsy soundscape/noisescape artists waving their hands around the surface of these things, impressing a crowd of well-dressed, wine-sipping, silently head-nodding twenty-somethings who are simply BEYOND the boring restrictions of rhythm and melody.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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