What’s the difference between Fingertip MIDI HD and the Soundprisms?

u0421793

Are they a] actually useful; b] different much; and c] intuitive?

mschenkel.it

I don't know finger tip but sound prism is pretty stunning, specially if you don't know a keyboard, scales and stuff. You can get some weird harmonies just tapping random. I won't say anything about the audio engine since I never intended it to be a sound source

JeffChasteen

@mschenkel.it said:
I don't know finger tip but sound prism is pretty stunning, specially if you don't know a keyboard, scales and stuff. You can get some weird harmonies just tapping random. I won't say anything about the audio engine since I never intended it to be a sound source

That's two of us.
Soundprism does make a great MIDI controller. It also runs with very light resource usage if one doesn't use its internal sound engine.

Redo1

I like soundprism very much. I don't like fingertip midi and have deleted it a couple times now. for whatever that is worth.
soundprism imo feels better, looks better, controls better.

I find soundprism useful for playing the internal sounds or controlling a sound source in a different way to get some different results perhaps.

mschenkel.it

Could be implemented some tilt-pan and accelerometer controls for more expressiveness, even if in my experience I almost never used those controls being on a hand held iPad: I think motion sensors can do miracles on smaller devices while iPads will a stand like the keyboard Marilyn Manson had

bsantoro

I did a short piece using SoundPrism Pro. It is the string part that was done in SoundPrism Pro, in one take. I then improvised a bassoon part over it in Cubasis.

JohnnyGoodyear

I like them both. I think SP is the better instrument (to me), but find I can freelance nicely (surprisingly) in Fingertip.

u0421793

Is there much of a difference between any of the Soundprisms (ignoring any pointless inbuilt preset sound honking facility, of course) when used purely as controllers for proper synths?

mschenkel.it

Well, as fas I know SP is single channel out, SPP can have up to 4, dunno nothing about SPE while SPL, besides link and audiobus remote and their benefits, has at least one CC out.
Summing it up:
if you want to control ONE SINGLE synth there won't be much difference between SP and SPP. Instead, if you enjoy layering sounds and synth there will be loads of differences.
Then SPL will come in to play if you want to get expressive with the CC which will be most likely mapped to mod wheel. Not to forget also the ability in some future to run it in split view while going craSy with knobs and stuff.

obiwahnkentobi

@u0421793 said:
Is there much of a difference between any of the Soundprisms (ignoring any pointless inbuilt preset sound honking facility, of course) when used purely as controllers for proper synths?

good question @Sebastian are there any comparisen view about?
bought SP the first one, use it just 3-5times, nice playing but its not in my act. setup/workflow...