Manta

[Tony Hardie-Bick]

On 02/12/10 17:15, Jonny Stutters wrote:
> On 2 December 2010 16:53, Tony Hardie-Bick<tony at entity.net>  wrote:
>
>> However, to be really useful, there needs to be a deep connection between sound
>> and gesture, and this device doesn't have that. You can use *any* sound :)
>
> Certainly, but that seems to me to be mostly a latency and good
> programming (and I guess user discipline) issue rather than an issue
> with this or any other controller once that controller crosses some
> threshold of knowledge about the physical input from the user.

Yeah - if the interface is really good, then an exploration of possibilities 
becomes artistic rather than technical.

And I think the Manta impresses me as (to my limited knowledge) the best example 
of a matrix-style sequencer applied to musical expression in the notes 
themselves, in addition to matrix-style on-the-fly-song-structuring machinery à 
la Monome. Which, is a pretty mind-blowing combination - if one simply takes the 
idea of a Monome-type matrix, and then add in *extremely* good velocity/aftertouch.

Perhaps it's this combination, rather than the aftertouch itself - or any other 
individual aspect - which is impressing me with this device.

Tony (HB)