If you’ve ever wanted to control Ableton Live with a psychedelic keytar MIDI controller thing, then you’ll want to check out the Starr Labs Clipper – one of their line of custom MIDI controllers.
The video demonstrates the Clipper being used to control an Ableton Live session.
Custom MIDI controller developer Starr Labs has introduced The Clipper – an LED RGB fingerboard that’s availableas an upgrade option to any Ztar that can accommodate a regular button neck.
The Clipper has full Ableton integration.
Starr Labs, a boutique MIDI controller maker that previously focused on creating custom ZTar MIDI guitar controllers, has announced a Kickstarter project to create the iTar, an iPad keytar.
The project pairs Starr Labs’ proven fingerboard controller, from the ZTar, with an iPad. According to the developers, by pairing their fingerboard with a mass-produced portable computer, like the iPad, they can cut their costs way down.
They’re running this project as a Kickstarter project. Basically, Starr Labs is trying to move from building one-off custom ZTars, which are pretty expensive, to creating iTars in volume, priced at $200. In order to make them in volume, though, they need to determine if there’s real interest to justify volume production.
Details at their Kickstarter site. Continue reading
Saturday Synth Porn: Starr Labs calls this custom MIDI controller the Ztar Z6SPX.
But we took one look at this particular Ztar Z6SPX and said to ourselves, ”It’s a double complete rainbow on the fretboard!”
“Oh my god! Oh Ohhhh God! Its so bright! It?s so bright and vivid.”
The Starr Labs Ztars are unique guitar-style MIDI controllers that can be played in a guitar-like way or used as a controller for apps like Ableton Live or Reason.
More shots of the ‘double rainbow’ Ztar MIDI controller below. See the Starr Labs site for more info on their Ztars. Continue reading
Ztar developer Starr Labs has introduced iTar, an upcoming controller app for iPhone and iPad:
We here at Starr Labs have been working on the iTar, a MIDI guitar/instrument application for the iPhone and iPad.
The more we labor over what we want the iTar to accomplish, the more we expand its scope of control, programmability, customization, and interactivity. Think pages of customizable control screen surfaces with dozens of controller and trigger types, arranged and implemented however you like.
That said, we invite any serious programmers/developers to join us in the iTar conversation.
Seriously, contact Harvey Starr harvey (at) starrlabs.com and be a part of the Starr Labs team that unveils the best MIDI guitar/instrument application onto the world, the iTar!
This is obviously in the very early stages – but their goal of making the best MIDI guitar controller does pique our interest.
You can check out the company’s Ztar at their site.
Composer Stephen Taylor performs Coprime Colours, a microtonal composition, on a Starr Labs Wilson MicroZone U-990 hexagonal-key MIDI instrument. Continue reading