OMG most amazing thing made at MIT for electronic musicians

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Posted by snotbubbl1 on Dec-18-2003 16:10:

OMG most amazing thing made at MIT for electronic musicians

This thing is so awesome, called audiopad, these MIT kids are geniouses. watch the video of it and the performance of it. in the video it also has a description of how it works. featured in latest issue of BPM magazine.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~jpatten/audiopad/

Posted by hey cheggy on Dec-18-2003 16:14:

Yeah, that thing's pretty cool. Its been around for a while now though.

Posted by Floorfiller on Dec-18-2003 18:14:

wow...that thing is awesome...i've never seen that before. where do i buy own hehehehe....

seriously though...thats the future i'll tell you that...very cool..

Posted by hazzard on Dec-19-2003 19:31:

i dont think that it will be parctical to trance music it will not feet this will be too much complicated ...

Posted by Haunted on Dec-20-2003 05:33:

yea its basically for just live performances i think
dont see how you can sequence and everything in it

Posted by DJ_D|ABL0_ on Dec-20-2003 16:00:

looks like something from minority report

Posted by CynepMeH on Dec-20-2003 17:13:

Introducing the new and improved "theremin" ... Concept is older than any oldest synth... Look up "Theremin" info here

I wonder if Ray Kurtzweil, a graduate of MIT and one of the pioneers of music synthesis and resident of Braintree, Massachusets (suburb of Boston) had his hand in this.

What's even cooler, Kurtzweil describes the future synthesizers - the ones that could connect to your brain and you can create music mentally. In concept it seems just like what I'd want to have. For more info on this concept and overall great comp. sci. read (not boring at all) check out Ray Kurtzweil's "The age of spiritual machines". Book is a bit dated but phenomenal in its prediction of future technology, computer science, chemistry, medicine and genetic engineering merging to create a super computer or even a super human.

Sadly, most of his predictions are based on assumption that we're living in a perfect world - a world where thechnophobia doesn't exist and religious zealouts abandon their pursuit of telling everyone else how to live.

I'll get off my soap box right about... Now.