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I'd suggest that Fairlight aimed for an experience more like the new flat Mac keyboards. As mentioned before this could be pretty hard considering the LCDs in each button.

This would be my only gripe with an otherwise AMAZING audio system. In lots of ways it runs rings around Pro Tools.

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Save me, Toshiba!]]>May 3rd 2009 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/
It's about time the keyboard industry start pumping out some high-tech stuff.

Now let the price wars begin!
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And SLICK - please.]]>Sep 12th 2007 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/
I think CTRL+C, as an example of a hot key, is much easier than looking for the dedicated copy key on the keyboard. But that's just me, what says you?]]>Sep 12th 2007 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/In a studio environment having obvious dedicated keys and assignable dials and knobs is actually very useful, saves having to remember 100's of short-cuts and manipulate on screen dials IMO...]]>Sep 12th 2007 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/
http://www.ghservices.com/gregh/fairligh/
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You spend 28,000 bux on an editing station, and you still can't edit.

Hmmm... maybe throwing money at things DOESNT work...]]>Sep 12th 2007 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/
We've all had needs to remap keys now and then (video people, design people, gamers, etc) but to do it on the fly & have visual feedback of the keys would be awesome. This thing maybe ugly in some peoples eyes but its really a stunning piece of machinery--overpriced for now but that's the nature of the beast.

Wonder what the very first mouse cost?? Think about it, now you can get them for as little as $5..]]>Sep 12th 2007 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/]]>Sep 12th 2007 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/
But I guess in reality, by the time your editing skills would justify/pay for owning something that expensive, you're already using all the shortcut keys without even having to think or look at the keyboard anyway...]]>Sep 12th 2007 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 9:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/
It's a Space Station!]]>Sep 12th 2007 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/
Yeah, it might. But isn't the point of this to be a jack-of-all trades for many different applications? If you're just going to be using it for video, I don't see how it's any better than the current preferred setup: an external jog wheel with programmable buttons and an overlay for your keyboard.

Likewise, who would want to take their eye off the screen to look at the scrubber panel? This is why we have multiple monitors! And NOT one randomly on the table or on your lap! ]]>Sep 12th 2007 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/
Will it shred?]]>Sep 12th 2007 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairlight_CMI) is that they are both ludicrously expensive and marketed to a wonderfully eccentric niche group of artists. I would love to see this company's offices.]]>Sep 13th 2007 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 13th 2007 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/
the video with that music did not help the case]]>Sep 12th 2007 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/Sep 12th 2007 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/
What you see above is not a computer keyboard, but in its current form a full post production audio workstation – hence the price tag.
Maybe the technology will make it to other more consumer markets soon
]]>Sep 13th 2007 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/12/fairlights-28-000-xynergi-keyboard-makes-optimus-look-minimus/For more information about Fairlights products visit www.fairlightus.com
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