Oh Yeah MOTU has GOT to incorporate this!

csiaudio · Post by **csiaudio** » Fri May 25, 2012 6:42 pm

I knew it was just a matter of time. Hope there is a day when I can ditch the mouse and just use my hands to completely do audio ITB.

Check this out...cool huh?

https://live.leapmotion.com/

YouTube · Post by **James Steele** » Fri May 25, 2012 7:27 pm

Seen it. I also know that people at MOTU have seen it. Whether they're going to support it or not is anyone's guess, but you'd be surprised (or maybe not) at how much MOTU has their "ear to the ground" about new technology. By the time we've heard about it, someone there has already seen it.

csiaudio · Post by **csiaudio** » Fri May 25, 2012 7:34 pm

That's excellent to hear - hopefully some thing will come of this!

Dan Worley · Post by **Dan Worley** » Fri May 25, 2012 7:58 pm

Gee, all I have to do now with the trackpad is is move one to four fingers. That looks tiring.

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Fri May 25, 2012 8:06 pm

Good for designers. Not all that useful for me personally. And it's like $70? My trackpad cost as much so if it works I'll get one, maybe, but my boats already afloat.

mikehalloran · Post by **mikehalloran** » Fri May 25, 2012 8:41 pm

It would have to be a pretty slick implementation to convince me to abandon my magic track pad.

If one could get it to ape the function of the shift, option, return and enter keys with a thumb while the fingers were controlling sounds or notes, it could be quite useful for the handicapped (like me).

Looks like a good way to get some exercise, however...

Kubi · Post by **Kubi** » Fri May 25, 2012 9:14 pm

Anybody who thinks this will replace mouse/trackpad/keyboard has never tried to play a perfectly-in-tune scale on a theremin...

csiaudio · Post by **csiaudio** » Fri May 25, 2012 9:22 pm

OMgosh LOL aren't we a lazy, unimaginative group? Heaven forbid we have to move to do something. Maybe they'll come up with an elbow rest or say an oxygen tank for all of you - sound good?

MIDI Life Crisis · Post by **MIDI Life Crisis** » Fri May 25, 2012 9:39 pm

csiaudio wrote:OMgosh LOL aren't we a lazy, unimaginative group? Heaven forbid we have to move to do something. Maybe they'll come up with an elbow rest or say an oxygen tank for all of you - sound good?

The tank idea sounds good but I'm not sure I want it filled with oxygen. Maybe we could have an intergalactic kegger or universal hookah-thon?

kgdrum · Post by **kgdrum** » Fri May 25, 2012 9:44 pm

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:
csiaudio wrote:OMgosh LOL aren't we a lazy, unimaginative group? Heaven forbid we have to move to do something. Maybe they'll come up with an elbow rest or say an oxygen tank for all of you - sound good?
The tank idea sounds good but I'm not sure I want it filled with oxygen. Maybe we could have an intergalactic kegger or universal hookah-thon?

innovation I like

Dan Worley · Post by **Dan Worley** » Fri May 25, 2012 10:27 pm

csiaudio wrote:OMgosh LOL aren't we a lazy, unimaginative group? Heaven forbid we have to move to do something. Maybe they'll come up with an elbow rest or say an oxygen tank for all of you - sound good?

I would like to conduct a virtual orchestra with that thing, though. Someone should make a game like that. I don't know, maybe they already have.

YouTube · Post by **James Steele** » Fri May 25, 2012 10:50 pm

My initial reaction was that this seems like it would be much more tiring. Why would I want to make big arm gestures instead of a small flick of the wrist like I do now? Of course if you've seen Iron Man movies, this looks like just the same kind of technology Tony Stark uses to interact with his holographic 3D displays.

Shooshie · Post by **Shooshie** » Sat May 26, 2012 6:06 am

That DOES look cool. I can see myself getting one at some point just to play with it and have fun seeing what it can do, but I'm with others who think (at this point) that it may be a problem for people doing detail-intensive work all day long. It remains to be seen. But I'm definitely going to have to try it!

Shoosh

csiaudio · Post by **csiaudio** » Sat May 26, 2012 6:36 am

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:
csiaudio wrote:OMgosh LOL aren't we a lazy, unimaginative group? Heaven forbid we have to move to do something. Maybe they'll come up with an elbow rest or say an oxygen tank for all of you - sound good?
The tank idea sounds good but I'm not sure I want it filled with oxygen. Maybe we could have an intergalactic kegger or universal hookah-thon?

Now yer thinkin!

bayswater · Post by **bayswater** » Sat May 26, 2012 7:33 am

Great possibilities for the "conductor" track, and air (guitar and drum) tracks.

But I don't see how it could be 100 times more accurate than a mouse which is already close to or at pixel accuracy.

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