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I haven't given too much mind before to non-keyboard idiom touchpad instrument interfaces on my iPad before. But I was playing withheld TF7 earlier, and it uses a grid of "pads" with a kind of after-touch that can be set to do whammy or vibrato widen you wiggle a held note. I was digging it a lot. Seemed very cool and expressive and intuitive and got me thinking I ought to pay some attention of tablet instrument interfaces that get past skeumorphic mimicry of standard instruments in meatspace.

Animoog has the blade keys and Waldorf Nave can use them, too, but that still seems keyboard-y even when your limiting your keyboard to in-scale notes. Kaos Pad type Theremin-y stuff seems to be phoning it in a bit, unless somebody has a good trick in there. What else is out there doing interesting stuff?

Any fave playing interfaces you've been messing with?

Samplr.

lemur & beatsurfing u can make your own touch interfaces. really cool

don't forget touchOSC! kinda lemurish and, if i recall, freeeee!

Touch OSC is about 5 bucks.

The previously mentioned Samplr has a great interface and does very smart yet easy to understand stuff.

ThumbJam is an excellent expressive instrument mostly based on acoustic instruments samples, very configurable and with a very good integrated looper (it was developped bu the person who made the great OSX looper SooperLooper).

Disarm D'arcy wrote:Touch OSC is about 5 bucks.

still worth it.... especially considering how much a lemur used to cost!

Thumjam was just the type of thing I had in mind as a non-keyboard "keyboard" sort of thing--a note-playing method that doesn't care about pre-existing physical instruments. I know you can do shit tons in Lemur and OSC, but I'd rather try an interface designer's idea than my own half assed design, since these alternate methods are just now grabbing my attention and they've put more thought in than I have.

Oh, and Samplr is flat out brilliant. I should really put in some time to become fluent in it.

antennafarm wrote:

Disarm D'arcy wrote:Touch OSC is about 5 bucks.

still worth it.... especially considering how much a lemur used to cost!

Yep, it' sa brilliant way to control stuff. Cheap custom midi controller.

TC Data is pretty cool.