Here’s a video of someone demo’ing the synthesizers.com sequencer, which I believe is a fairly direct clone of the old Moog sequencer.
Month: August 2006
Why I Love Analog Sequencers, Exhibit 1
There’s a nice video here of someone demonstrating basic use of an analog sequencer, in Japanese. I have no idea what he’s saying but it looks like he’s using a Roland System 100.
Impressive User-Interface Innovation
There’s a neat video here of a touch-sensitive computer screen (“screen” in a loose sense) that can respond to multiple points of contact. This has been done before, but I’ve never seen it done so fluidly, and apparently the hardware is not terribly expensive. The guy makes some good points (briefly) about user interfaces; it is interesting to consider that the mouse/keyboard system we’re all used to really hasn’t changed in the ~25 years since it was invented by Xerox, and the QWERTY keyboard itself is much older. [Found via musicthing.]