Vavdo has announced that the Vavdo A2 controller is now available.
According to Vavdo, the A2 knobs, buttons & Leds are designed are to allow simultaneous gestures from all your fingers, while having excellent feel and instant tactile & visual feedback.
Here’s a new video demo for the Karlax – a new electronic instrument designed to ?re-establish the artist?s body at the heart of the performance.?
Check out the video demo and let us know what you think about the Karlax!
Developer Graham Comerford let us know about Yeco, the latest version of his free multitouch software for controlling Ableton Live:
Yeco is a multi touch controller for Ableton Live. It is available for free from the Multitouch Music site. Yeco will run on Windows 32 & 64 bit. A Mac version will be available in early September.
Customized versions of Yeco, custom touch midi controllers, and custom touch OSC controllers are available for a small fee.
Yeco was previously called TouchLive.
Check out the demo and let us know what you think of Yeco!
Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures a live performance, Current, by synthesist Martin Peters.
Technical details below.
SketchSynth, by Billy Keyes, is a drawable OSC control panel which lets you create your own control panels, with just a marker and a piece of paper.
Once drawn, the controller sends Open Sound Control (OSC) messages to anything that can receive them; in this case, a synthesizer running in Pure Data.
The Missing Link OSC/MIDI Translator is a unique device, created by Jabrudian Industries, that lets you control MIDI devices wirelessly, using OSC over WiFi.
If you’ve ever thought it would be cool to be able to control your vintage MIDI gear wirelessly, The Missing Link can let you do it.
When you turn it on, the Missing Link creates a WiFi network that you can connect to with computers and other wireless devices, just as you would connect to other WiFi networks. It also has MIDI In & Out jacks, so you can connect it to your legacy MIDI hardware.
Hardware & Setup
The Missing Link is small (3.3″ x 2.2″ x 1.6″) box that has a jack for a wall-wart power connector, a USB connector & MIDI In & Out (standard DIN-5). The case is plastic.
Setup is a little geeky, but still easy.
When you power up the Missing Link, it automatically creates a WiFi network. To connect to the Missing Link, you need to configure your device. It’s not that different than setting up a laptop to access a WiFi network.