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Novation Circuit News November 1
Somehow I'm on the Novation Circuit email list, and I received a note yesterday that SOMETHING IS HAPPENING.
From the email, which includes an illustrated timeline of the Circuit:
You might have guessed that we have some exciting news on the horizon. Join the discussion on the Circuit Owners Facebook Group and keep an ear to the ground on November 1st.
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Nevermind
!!!
I found some informations in a german forum (origin was from matrixsynth.com, but page has been deleted in the meantime):
http://www.sequencer.de/synthesizer/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=106275&start=450#p1381533
It's a compact version meant to take on the Pocket Operators and the iPhone.
Really? That would be so cool! I had a circuit but sold it to get my Push 2. I would def grab a couple of these.
No not really, but I'm happy to see my supreme photoshopping skills worked.
Yea i think the 4 button 2 knob setup is the future
Ha.
Yeah, the cloning at the bottom of the No. 1 button is a little lazy, but good enough for government work.
But @Noirflux, what advantage do you get from a Push over a Circuit? And can you integrate iOS with it? All this Ableton discussion has completely upended my worldview....
MISREAD THAT. I though you traded your Circuit for a Launchpad. Brain cramp. Yes, the Push is really cool.
What a wasteful extravagant design - it has a headphone jack!
Korg too
Haha, good stuff fellas!
LOL nope. I initially had a push 1 but wanted to go all IOS and that worked for a bit but I wanted something physical control. Then the circuit came out and I got it the first week and it was good but then Push 2 came out and pretty much was everything push 1 wasn't for me.
I still miss the circuit though. After they added the synth programming and sample feature it definitely made it more appealing! Now this announcement coming up is exciting.
I still can't help but wonder what Ableton has planned for the future. Like Ableton 10. All this investment in IOS the past year is great but I'm sure its connected to some future strategy/product/app. Why not?!?
LOL
Mine's cooler:
@johnfromberkeley where can I order? Lmao
Keep sending money to my paypal until it shows up!
I will put my money on it being an iOS app, just cause that feels good.
I'm intrigued by the whole notion of 'macro' - function overloaded knobs - that Circuit uses. It makes sense (if labelled and informative enough to be usable without guesswork or error or any accidents interfering) in that with a conventional knobby synth, there's frequently a time where one would like a tame octopus assistant to tweak several knobs or more at once, in precise proportions. When you think of it, most conventional analogue synths of the past had a huge restriction in that most parameters could only be changed a few at a time depending on the incidental ergonomic positioning within reach of the control layout.
Vector synthesis is a kind of crude and heavy answer to that situation, acting a bit like an A/B cross fader of an old-fashioned video mixer (modern ones use mix/effect switching - ME, not AB, where as soon as the T-bar reaches the limit, the top row and bottom row assignments change places, so the top row always represents program out and bottom row represents the state you'll crossfade to next. But that's beside the point).
Then it occurred to me that there's a finite amount of combinations of knob and switch positions on any given synth, that we can discern. Then it occurred to me that across all synths, there's probably a zeitgestaltgeist grouping of synth sounds we like to make that have actual utility in songs, sound effects, foley, backing, and anywhere else synth sound engineering ends up being used. Again, there's probably a set of directions we go in, and a defined range of how much we go in those directions.
What this implies is that it is possible to convert all of those likely and divulgable synth sounds - all of them, across all possible synths - into a set of index numbers. Any sound you care to make, any sound possible to make, any sound you've ever heard a synth make, could be expressed in a serial number. You probably only need one knob, with very precise shaft encoding, to call up any sound ever. To make things easier, it should be geared, such that it has a nice vernier dial operation. A really chunky hefty metal one, with lots of mass and inertia and good braking action. To give feedback, a single digit serially-scrolled multi-colour nixie tube would be appreciated.
Additive synthesis does a rough approximation of this, but try quantifying the ripples in a puddle?