NI Review on KVRAudio

http://www.kvraudio.com/interview_with_native_instruments.php

I don't want to speak out of turn here, but.. Aren't most knobs touch-sensitive?

Also: Does this mean Reaktor will get upgraded with new UI stuff so we can graduate from TGA to PNG/SVG?

 

Not in the way he's referring to, where the sensitivity of the control is directly influenced by how hard you grab onto the knob

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I'm just saying. Most knobs are touch sensitive. Right ew?

ZING!

Gotcha!

 

"Our Kore controller with its touch-sensitive knobs and sound morphing features is a good example for this."

I have touch sensitive controls and it is very different from the others that just respond because I turned them.

When I read the post excerpt from that interview at KVR I was thinking more along the lines of something else entirely different...

The Lemur is close to what I am thinking. I saw this YouTube video over a year ago and I am still convinced that this guy understands the sort of things that will make everything different for us, what this guy is doing would make Reaktor a true user interface where graphics have a real meaning, that is until it gets castrated by corporations into something much less useful for standardized production for web surfing, myspace, slideshows, and itune shopping. Then they will maximization the profits, meaning it will be extremely overpriced, for those that actually need it to do something meaningful and useful. Of course that is not NI's problem but it will limit what it can mean for reaktor...I mean...



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If you want to look at it that way, all knobs are. Your point?

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I know its not that funny. But I suck at hummor myself so no comment.

 

Yea I don't know, I think all this is going in the wrong direction.
Its like the iphone, a communication device that does 1001 cool, useless things that actually makes direct communication harder instead of "better".
While NI focuses on this kore BS, synthmaker is quitely becoming exactly what reaktor 6 should be.

 

Have you ever used Kore, especially with the hardware?
Don't knock it unless you've tried it...

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The emphasis in this thread and on the video was with physical user interfaces. The video claimed all current interfaces were obsoleted by this new touch sensor.

Well, I feel completely differently about physical interfaces and the total focus spent on them these days.

I wait for speech interfaces to be common place and for more research to be made in this area.

Has anyone played Chess in Mac OS X with the voice recognizer?

There is so far to go...

 

I went to India a couple months ago, one of the best things there is that they've got 'low-priced' versions of technical books that are literally 1/10th or more less than the American books, so I picked up a small library of stuff -- one of which is a book on speech detection, the density of math involved makes sound synthesis look like a word problem on the back of a McDonalds placemat.

It's definitely a hard nut to crack, but I agree with you. Speech detection is lacking but likely because of horse power on modern computers. When we get 128 core processors it might be different.

And as far as Kore's knobs. I've got a Kore 1, and I'm not too sure how touch sensitive knobs would make it that much better, it's an interesting concept but more of a novelty for me -- but, that's just my opinion.