Bhoreal Makes Grids Color
We give controllers a lot of credit for basically replacing the need for actual hardware and actual computers, but where did these designs originate from? The keyboard MIDI controller is pretty obvious – they needed a keyboard without actually having the real deal, so they emulated it and controlled it with a computer. The jog wheel controllers that we see so often obvious get their form from the infamous CDJs, made by Pioneer. The button pad controllers that we find in the usual four by four configurations owe their design to the guys at Akai and Roland who had been pushing the lines of what a drum machine could do. [embed width="656"]http://vimeo.com/68759877[/embed] Now, when we see something like the Ableton Push or the Novation Launchpad, we might think that Ableton had something to do with the origination of that design but it was actually Ableton and Novation who took cues from other designs. The basic monome was around nearly ten years ago, when hardware designers where looking for an instrument that could be all things to anyone. We use them to control music these days, but they could essentially be used to control video, lights, and other aspects of the live production performance. http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/06/bhoreal-makes-grids-color-open-source-final-hours-of-funding-lasers-robot/