Huh. Um...Potentially interesting with more flexibility, but now, not very at all. For one, it takes WAY too long to set up a simple house beat. How are you going to mix up live sequencing?
I thought the idea of a MIDI device controlled by ball bearings would be awesome, until I saw that it's not using the...ballness of the bearings at all. Those things can be rolled, can't they? Yep. Rolled, bounced, spun, they can be rolled down sloped canals. If, say, each contact that they go into can be thought of as a plane with two axes, each axis controlling a different MIDI parameter, now it could get interesting. Have a tray like that, with a ball bearing in each one, and you can just roll them around in their spaces to control pitch, EQ, envelopes...any two elements at a time. But this offers no functionality that, say, FL or any software sequencer can't do much more easily.
Think of the ball bearings as relative to those antique ball mice, except you can control up to five mice with each finger!
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Huh. Um...Potentially interesting with more flexibility, but now, not very at all. For one, it takes WAY too long to set up a simple house beat. How are you going to mix up live sequencing?
I thought the idea of a MIDI device controlled by ball bearings would be awesome, until I saw that it's not using the...ballness of the bearings at all. Those things can be rolled, can't they? Yep. Rolled, bounced, spun, they can be rolled down sloped canals. If, say, each contact that they go into can be thought of as a plane with two axes, each axis controlling a different MIDI parameter, now it could get interesting. Have a tray like that, with a ball bearing in each one, and you can just roll them around in their spaces to control pitch, EQ, envelopes...any two elements at a time. But this offers no functionality that, say, FL or any software sequencer can't do much more easily.
Think of the ball bearings as relative to those antique ball mice, except you can control up to five mice with each finger!