I love this thing, but imagine if the exact same tech, instead of being 42x24 was 84x12 or even 112x9 (and sensors redistributed appropriately) . This way it would be have the same computational load, be able to cover a few octaves linearly, if more keyboard-ish, and still put a mix of controllers on the very flexible space, like being , say, a 19tone enharmonic keyboard or isomorphic one. With the Silicone top, mallet players could also use it. I could also get a more realistically sized bunch of gamelan instruments to run on it, like genders, sarons and gambangs, which are shrunk or truncated in my current implementation. It could also be played by Continuum and Roli players right off the bat, although that really nice EaganMatrix backend would be missing. There are now lots of very powerful backends like Tomofon, Sumu, Chromophone 3, Geoshred, and of course Pianoteq.
This would be a hefty amount of redesign work, but clearly the really tough parts are already solved. I could just buy another Erea 2 and gaff tape it to my existing one, but this would work a lot better! and also: adding in Embodme's IRIS proximity sensors could give even more control options to music making.
Henry Lowengard
I love this thing, but imagine if the exact same tech, instead of being 42x24 was 84x12 or even 112x9 (and sensors redistributed appropriately) .
This way it would be have the same computational load, be able to cover a few octaves linearly, if more keyboard-ish, and still put a mix of controllers on the very flexible space, like being , say, a 19tone enharmonic keyboard or isomorphic one. With the Silicone top, mallet players could also use it. I could also get a more realistically sized bunch of gamelan instruments to run on it, like genders, sarons and gambangs, which are shrunk or truncated in my current implementation. It could also be played by Continuum and Roli players right off the bat, although that really nice EaganMatrix backend would be missing. There are now lots of very powerful backends like Tomofon, Sumu, Chromophone 3, Geoshred, and of course Pianoteq.
This would be a hefty amount of redesign work, but clearly the really tough parts are already solved. I could just buy another Erea 2 and gaff tape it to my existing one, but this would work a lot better!
and also: adding in Embodme's IRIS proximity sensors could give even more control options to music making.