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Pianocade: Arcade parts meets musical instrument
shponglefan:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 26, 2013, 01:40:52 pm ---Well that's the thing... synth doesn't mean digital, it means synthetic.
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Right, but you were comparing it to a real piano for some reason. Nobody in their right mind is going to mistake this thing for a real piano, so I'm not even sure what your original point of bringing that up was in the first place.
--- Quote ---The old electric keyboard is still synth, but at the same time, you've got analog keys, and analog manipulation of that synthetic sample via all your tweak buttons. Your cheaper keyboards are digital sure, but professional musicians don't really use the cheaper ones almost exclusively for that reason.
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Synths are typically divided into analog or digital not based on keys or knobs, but rather based on underlying circuitry (oscillators, filters, etc) and whether that's analog or digital. And a lot of early synths didn't have velocity sensitivity. Their keys were just on/off. Later synths started adding velocity curves, but they tend to be digital not analog in terms of a fixed number of increments.
--- Quote ---I know this is going to butt hurt a lot of the chip tunes kiddies out there, but they aren't "playing" stuff, they are merely activating samples via the pressing of a key. So it's guitar hero.
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You've just described every single digital sample-based instrument ever. If I sat you down in front of a Clarinova and had you play something, would that be "guitar hero" to you?
At the end of the day, it just comes to degree of sophistication, not black-and-white categories.
--- Quote ---When I see that thing, I think that somebody wasted a lot of buttons on a speak n spell that could have been put on a really nice arcade cab instead.
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And meanwhile someone is looking at all the money we waste on these arcade controls that could have been used to feed the homeless. Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think what an utterly ridiculous statement that was. As though somehow arcade cabinets of all things (basically glorified time wasters) are higher on the cosmic pecking order than DIY synth instruments. It's just absurd.
shponglefan:
--- Quote from: DaveMMR on March 26, 2013, 07:29:32 pm ---IANAM but as a casual observer, I agree with Howard and Vigo. Don't understand why you'd even begin consider using this instead of just tapping on a computer using cheaper software for music creation. For performing, that looks completely unintuitive. Was there a problem with the standard keyboard (the one that looks like a piano, not the one that looks like a typewriter) that needed to be improved upon?
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Well, that's one way to look at it. If one just wants to make music then there are other better/easier alternatives out there.
The flipside, though, is that it's trying something new or different. It doesn't necessarily have to be flawless or even the greatest idea ever. It's the seed of innovation that's important. Then maybe someone else comes along and takes the idea further; they look at what worked or what didn't and try to improve on it.
For me (someone who is also interested in synths and electronics), the Pianocade is an intriguing idea. I've thought about ways of integrating arcade parts w/ music before (esp. after seeing things like the MIDI Fighter and other MIDI controllers using arcade parts). This took it a step further by integrating a synth. So yeah, at least for me, it's a source of ideas.
Vigo:
It's a frankenpiano. A freakish crime against nature. I learned long ago that mixing two awesome things usually ends up with a far less awesome outcome.
It might seem like a cool idea to duct tape a toaster on a poodle so you don't have to get up from watching TV to make a pop tart......but it's not. It really, really is not. I really miss FiFi.... :'(
lordnacho:
--- Quote from: Vigo on March 27, 2013, 01:14:35 pm ---It might seem like a cool idea to duct tape a toaster on a poodle so you don't have to get up from watching TV to make a pop tart......but it's not. It really, really is not. I really miss FiFi.... :'(
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I even got a guy to gold plate my cat
I don't regret much, but I do regret that
Sorry my kids are obsessed with the Muppets Sountrack.
Vigo:
--- Quote from: lordnacho on March 27, 2013, 04:13:54 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vigo on March 27, 2013, 01:14:35 pm ---It might seem like a cool idea to duct tape a toaster on a poodle so you don't have to get up from watching TV to make a pop tart......but it's not. It really, really is not. I really miss FiFi.... :'(
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I even got a guy to gold plate my cat
I don't regret much, but I do regret that
Sorry my kids are obsessed with the Muppets Sountrack.
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if i could start over i'd do it all the same
but i wouldn't gold plate little twinkles again
I love the muppets too! :laugh2:
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