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Saturday 22 April 2006
Bookmarked in case I ever get a little MIDI controller here: midiStroke, which will convert MIDI messages to keypresses in OS X. With a bit of work, it could be used to add some real, physical controls to Photoshop: twiddle a knob to adjust the flow on the Airbrush tool, that sort of thing. Pity there aren’t keystrokes for adjusting the current paint colour…
Also, I happened to stumble on a listing for a synth called the Dave Smith Instruments Evolver. Just reading about it makes me want to weep with joy. It really does sound like my dream synth: all sorts of modulation possibilities, external input (which can trigger or modulate in different ways), all sorts of feedback paths… And the editing software they offer lives up to the name ‘Evolver’ too, with genetic patch generation - you can generate new sounds a little like you were breeding plants.
All of which adds up to ‘lots of weird noises’ and ‘percussion processor’.
Of course, there are many other things I ought to be doing with my money: monitor speakers, a new mixer, MIDI controller, food, rent, etc. But: oooooh.
It’s not even that expensive.
*pines*