"i'm guessing this is for *REAL* musicians, the kind that can actually read and write notation... with a pencil... without software"
So to be a real musician you have to use pen and paper? What a load of bollocks. I play the cello, guitar, bass guitar and a bit of piano, and have been playing music since I was 8 years old.
I'm a *REAL* musician and I use Sibelius all the time because I can't really play the piano that well, and have only ever really read music in bass clef - I can read treble but not very fluently (Have to do the whole "FACE in the Space" and "Every Green Bus Drives Fast" crap each time). Trust me, software makes composing a LOT easier.
Your claim that *real* musicians don't use software is nonsense. Not only do I use software but almost every other musician I've met has used Music software to write their scores. Music Teachers, Orchestra conductors, etc.
Now, if you had said "real musicians don't use Garageband" I would partially agree with you. Fall Out Boy (although their status as musicians will vary depending on your opinion of them) use Garageband and I'm sure various other musicians on a budget do, too. However, the large majority of Garageband users just use Apple loops, so therefore you are right in that respect.
But please don't make a daft comment like that :P It provokes responses like these :P
On the actual topic, however, this looks like a great idea. Hopefully the paper will be replaceable though because otherwise you'd end up with a keyboard in a wallet that can't do anything :P
I agree actually. Looking at this device (at least superficially) it's too small to actually play on like a piano, and undoubtedly doesn't have velocity modulation. It's just for plunking out melodies. Which is great, I have a piano of about that scale that I take with me and do that with. But the truth of the matter is that that level of plunking you actually can do on a laptop keyboard basically as well as you can on a small keyboard like this. Plus that allows you to record and actually input the notes rather than having to scribble them out by hand.
That being said the notebook is really quite sexy, I think my existing too-small-to-play-chords-portable-midi-piano is getting jealous.
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This dream has already been made possible, it's called a Macbook!
I'm an Apple fan just as much as the next guy, but WTF are you talking about?
i'm guessing this is for *REAL* musicians, the kind that can actually read and write notation... with a pencil... without software... ya know?
I think he was referring to Garage Band, which is altogether neat, but not very similar to this.
@Darkroom
"i'm guessing this is for *REAL* musicians, the kind that can actually read and write notation... with a pencil... without software"
So to be a real musician you have to use pen and paper? What a load of bollocks. I play the cello, guitar, bass guitar and a bit of piano, and have been playing music since I was 8 years old.
I'm a *REAL* musician and I use Sibelius all the time because I can't really play the piano that well, and have only ever really read music in bass clef - I can read treble but not very fluently (Have to do the whole "FACE in the Space" and "Every Green Bus Drives Fast" crap each time). Trust me, software makes composing a LOT easier.
Your claim that *real* musicians don't use software is nonsense. Not only do I use software but almost every other musician I've met has used Music software to write their scores. Music Teachers, Orchestra conductors, etc.
Now, if you had said "real musicians don't use Garageband" I would partially agree with you. Fall Out Boy (although their status as musicians will vary depending on your opinion of them) use Garageband and I'm sure various other musicians on a budget do, too. However, the large majority of Garageband users just use Apple loops, so therefore you are right in that respect.
But please don't make a daft comment like that :P It provokes responses like these :P
On the actual topic, however, this looks like a great idea. Hopefully the paper will be replaceable though because otherwise you'd end up with a keyboard in a wallet that can't do anything :P
You can relax. Illiterate musicians are still musicians. They just can't read or write.
I agree actually. Looking at this device (at least superficially) it's too small to actually play on like a piano, and undoubtedly doesn't have velocity modulation. It's just for plunking out melodies. Which is great, I have a piano of about that scale that I take with me and do that with. But the truth of the matter is that that level of plunking you actually can do on a laptop keyboard basically as well as you can on a small keyboard like this. Plus that allows you to record and actually input the notes rather than having to scribble them out by hand.
That being said the notebook is really quite sexy, I think my existing too-small-to-play-chords-portable-midi-piano is getting jealous.