Re: Re: Worth getting iPod touch for Live Looping only?

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

I'm sorry I misread the original post and started rapping about iPad
when the thread actually was about iPod Touch! My bad. ;-)

Anyway, I'm not at all excited with the multi touch technology for
controlling music instruments. I would much rather take any equally
effective control surface that doesn't force you to visually look at
it in order to use it. I like being able to play without looking, and
that is simply not possible with these touch screen pads and pods.

But one side with them excites the shit out of me - the become
incredibly inexpensive in the long run! That is because unlike
hardware you can simply push a button to load a different app and
suddenly have a completely different piece of music gear at your
finger tips.

Recardoing OSC to MIDI converters we already have Osculator that sort
of have become the standard. But I was more thinking about loopers
that directly support OSC without the need of an extra transformation
utility. One point in using OSC is that it has a better resolution
than MIDI.

@Jeff,
Awesome news on the Mobius 1.43 OSC support! Can't wait to dig into
that after the recent period of concerts.

The KaossPad 4 looks nice and so does the Korg NanoPad ;-))  And yes
of course the GR-55! Such a NAMM we saw this year!

Per


On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
> Per wrote:
>>
>> My bet is that the iPad will stay as the useful multi touch screen
>> control surface it already has proven to be. Then you need some hidden
>> away computer that does the actual processing. The wireless OSC based
>> connection is very useful with the iPad but right now there are no
>> looping software that supports OSC right of the bat.
>
> I'm beta testing looper Hans Lindauer's invention,  'the Missing Link'
> which is a wireless OSC to Midi converter designed, specifically
> to allow an iTouch/Phone/Pad to control any midi instrument,
> remotely and will solve, in one fell swoop, the problem Per mentions 
>about
> support in
> looping software (or hardware)
>
> I was hoping to control my LP-1 at NAMM with my iTouch but I got
> so sick before the show I just didn't have time to get it all working
> but it DOES work (I saw Hans at the show).
>
> So this is very exciting to me:   Particularly because the way I loop
> is to play multiple tracks (and frequently multiple instruments)
> and then in the 2nd half of my performance I play producer and
> dub-maestro,  manipulating the tracks with effects and the use
> of loop manipulation that the LP-1 is so good at.
>
> To be able to do this in a more 'performance' mode,  in other words,
> not so tethered to the hardware device or looking down at
> pedals (the 'shoegazer' effect) which using the app 'touchOSC'
> would allow one to do with an iTouch (the only one I own)
> is great.
>
> Additionally and saliently cool is the fact that you can program all
> of the accelerometer action of the iTouch to control midi instruments.
>
> How cool is that?
>
> rick walker
>
>