Now that we've gotten the website up (btw, we're working on lot's of stuff for it so stay tuned), I can return to posting random things of interest.:)
Okay so it's getting late and I can't think of anything clever to say. So good night and enjoy.
So this is a bit off topic but this week I seem to have multi-touch interfaces on the brain. I scraped this story from Engadget who in turn grabbed it from Sarcastic Gamer. It's a parody that poke a little bit of fun at the expense of Microsoft's recently announced Surface. For the record, I'm absolutely blown away by Surface and I can't wait for the technology (and price) to trickle down to us musician types.
Found this on my youtube travels today. It's of interest to me because for some reason I had heard that the response time on the Lemur wasn't all that for rhythmic passages. In this vid it seems pretty responsive. Of course there's no real way of knowing until you actually get your hands on one. This was posted by Michael Forrest and he's using his Lemur to control Dblue Glitch.
Also, as a side note he shows of a little bit of sequencing with the Lemur. I'm definitely falling in love with the concept of graphical multi-touch beat making.
I've been eyeing the release date for Krishna ( a cool new soft-synth from the folks at Devine Machine) for some time and today it's here!:D
I'm definitely a fan of these guys ever since I picked up Lucifer a while back. When they announced Krishna earlier in the year it peaked my curiosity because it seemed to have a unique tonal character with its so called "Frame Oscillators". Although I've been setting aside some Benjamin's for it, last week I cracked and picked up the AKAI MPD24 instead (which I'm loving, btw) so I'll have to wait a little bit longer to pick it up. In the meantime there's a demo (PC/MAC) on the site that I'm downloading as I type this. I'll give it a whirl over the next few days and report back on my thoughts.-m
About a month ago we had not one but two laptop battle events here in the 206 about a week apart. Now if you've ever been to Seattle you'll know that's it's not that big a City. That got me thinking that we might have more laptop battlers per capita than most cities. Definitely an exciting thought. Let me introduce you to a few:
Here's a nice contestant Video from the newly started "Laptop Battle Teen Idol Survivor Series" that went down on April 27th.
Ah, those crazy kids.
Next up is KFO at the Northwest Regional Laptop Battle on May 3rd. The audio is a bit distorted in this clip but I was there and I can attest to the fact the he dropped it hard.
Now would someone please bring the national title to it's rightful home.;)
