OMG most amazing thing made at MIT for electronic musicians

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Posted by snotbubbl1 on Dec-18-2003 16:11:

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 sektile on Dec-18-2003 16:45:

fucking unbelievable.
how totally wicked ;p
i want one

Posted by VIO on Dec-18-2003 17:26:

that's pretty amazing.

Posted by Chris d(-_-)b on Dec-18-2003 17:36:

Those damn MIT nerds. That thing represents like a new era for live music performance. Really nice!

Posted by chesco on Dec-18-2003 22:09:

that looks very pretty

Posted by Nemesis44 on Dec-18-2003 23:09:

quote:
Originally posted by Chris d(-_-)b
Those damn MIT nerds. That thing represents like a new era for live music performance. Really nice!

Aye, it is a little startrek.

Now you can create music whilst playing backgammon.

Cheers
Nem

Posted by SgtFoo on Dec-19-2003 01:23:

wow... that hell with mixers!!... this thing's gonna take over!!!

I love sound. And I want one of those Audiopads

Posted by Dzokayi on Dec-19-2003 02:27:

impressive.... highly impressive.

Since I started mixing, I've always wished that every single element of a song was available separately, as its own track on the cd or LP, in its entirety. - I'm not an audio engineer, and I know there must be a term for all the elements (is it tracks?) but for example the entire vocal track (just the singing, from start to finish), the percussion, the synths, etc. I hope that makes sense. I'm in a rush to go see Lord of the Rings. The above wish, combined with this soundpad, would be nirvana for me. Hope this thing sees production and makes them millions.

Posted by vandit42 on Dec-22-2003 05:46:

WOW!

Posted by Jah on Dec-22-2003 13:59:

Re: impressive.... highly impressive.

quote:
Originally posted by Dzokayi
Since I started mixing, I've always wished that every single element of a song was available separately, as its own track on the cd or LP, in its entirety. - I'm not an audio engineer, and I know there must be a term for all the elements (is it tracks?) but for example the entire vocal track (just the singing, from start to finish), the percussion, the synths, etc. I hope that makes sense. I'm in a rush to go see Lord of the Rings. The above wish, combined with this soundpad, would be nirvana for me. Hope this thing sees production and makes them millions.

hey,
i hear ya, you should check out more house releases, even if you dont like house, one thing about its releases i really dig is often they give you the beats or some percusive track just at the end of the vinyl which really are dj tools for whatever you wanna use them for!, the vocals your refering too are called acapellas sometimes producers are nice guys and give you this too :P, or if your just looking for great breaks or samples to use check out some specific records that are just dj tools, usually there white labels but are available all over the place, acapellas too, they have a few stock standard ones (ie. martin luther king speech anyone ? ) but usually some good stuff that you can no doubt get real creative with!

Posted by crrrazydan on Dec-22-2003 22:30:

Nice. Looks very intuitive.

Posted by Gluegun on Dec-22-2003 22:44:

Damn. I *sooo* want one of these... this would be my perfect style of live synthesizer composing (instead of turntabling) .... now, as soon as they can make this stuff into a 3D soundfield... (giving two "microphones" probably...) hehehe....

Posted by Puuhis on Dec-23-2003 10:49:

WOW!

Posted by Xavier on Dec-23-2003 13:18:

my goodness, looks nice but I dont understand is this similar to a synthesizer? but like better?

Posted by Vert on Dec-23-2003 19:54:

quote:
Originally posted by Xavier
my goodness, looks nice but I dont understand is this similar to a synthesizer? but like better?

It appears to be sample based..

es

Posted by VIO on Dec-23-2003 20:01:

Re: impressive.... highly impressive.

Posted by VIO on Dec-23-2003 20:02:

quote:
Originally posted by Vert
It appears to be sample based..

es

the audio pad is just an intuitive interface for a sampler.

Posted by Vlad on Dec-23-2003 22:14:

Someone must have been watching Minority Report when they developed the idea behind how the layout would look and work.

Posted by ExcelonGT on Dec-25-2003 04:41:

Yeah definatly a minority report type of influence on this thing.
Its KICKASSS! I want one..i'd probably use it for hours and hours everyday.

Posted by Siang on Dec-25-2003 07:04:

that is fucking brilliant, every aspect of it. The only thing I dont understand is the slowing down part, it slows down everything. I wonder if you could just slow down lets say the bass or something. Either way its genius, pure genius. And looks sexy as hell also.

Posted by _Nut_ on Dec-26-2003 15:52:

quote:
Originally posted by Siang
I wonder if you could just slow down lets say the bass or something.

I wouldnt want that. If the song/sample is at 132BPM. I wouldnt want to drop the bass down where it would get off tempo....