cool! I always wished someone would make a simple piece of hardware,
basically with a simple midi interface, switches and pots, that could
control ReBirth.
Any electronics dudes out there, feel free to steal the idea.
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> From: Cichli@aol.com
> Sent: Friday, December 1, 2000 1:02 PM
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: [idm] reason software / hardware
>
> i love hardware. just playing with it is fun. but only after many
> weeks or months have i ever gotten anything useful from it. i find
> software much easier to be complex and detailed with than any hardware ive
>
> ever used (though i have limited experience). but there is no way to
> make
> up for the crappy interface of a keyboard and a mouse.
>
> caution: fantasy ahead......
> if i had it my way i would have a laptop-type computer, but in place of
> the
> keyboard would be a touchpad, but one which is configurable. that way
> you
> could (basically) turn it into a bunch of sliders and knobs or what have
> you,
> but with the flexibility of a computer screen. i dont know how easy
> it
> is physically, but it would be cool to have a screen under the
> (transparent)
> touchpad that could change what each specific "pixel" of the touchpad was
> for. would that just be heaven...........
>
> :jason (i just want.....something beautiful)
>
>
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