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Requirements for a highly playable touch screen instrument
As I see them:
- Scale selection. Chromatic an option. Because there’s no difference in feel of the notes or scales, it’s all flat and smooth. Your fingers will slide. We want them to slide to good sounding notes. Bonus points for going the extra step of allowing specific notes to be mapped ala Animoog or Model 15
- Linear arrangement of pitches. Apps like soundprism or other different arrangements are fun, but you always have to watch your fingers. So I say linear so we always know we are either going up or down.
- A playing area large enough to accommodate vertical movement of fingers, in addition to left right pitch movement. A. We don’t always want to look at our fingers, this gives some leeway so you won’t slide off the surface. B. Vertical movement can be mapped to expressive qualities like velocity and others and that is very simple to understand.
- LEGATO. If you slide your finger across pitches, (and we will naturally do that because of the smooth screen), it should produce a legato sound. If you want to trigger note attacks, you lift up and then press. This is a very simple thing to understand and results in lively playing.
These all combined together result in a really pleasant experience playing right on the screen. Many apps have built in keyboards and such but very few have all of these qualities. Animoog and Model 15 are the only two that come to mind. Even weird stuff like TC-11 doesn’t even have true legato. Hopefully any lurking devs here might take this to heart for the future. There’s definitely limitations of the platform, but within those I see these as the best to have together. What do you guys think?
I should also mention: RESIZABLE key width/range, etc
Comments
Geoshred also meets all your requirements.
Good one. Don’t own it, but I believe the hype.
You want GeoShred!! I haven’t been able to get rid of the AUM transport on the bottom of it, which is really annoying as I usually load it in AUM.
I love playing Bebot in AUM, routed through effects and busses. It sounds amazing. I did this once at a free concert for an audience of 20 or so people. It was really well received. Immediately after finishing my set, an audience member excitedly gave me his business card lol.
On legato, you need it as an option. I often want to slide from one note to another producing a new note, using the first note as a grace note, like a hammer-on on a piano.
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I’d like to add another variable aspect: switchable / flippable continuum orientations. In my experience, most things are backwards or upside down. If you’re right-handed, this probably seems comfortable to you, but to me, a normal left-handed person, most orientable things are incorrect.
A keyboard should go from low frequencies up over there on the right hand side, to high frequencies down here with me, on the left hand side – just like my guitar does (my left-handed guitar, that is, held left-handedly).
When I’m singing or humming out a melody and I point in the air, I instinctively point further toward the ground for high-frequency pitches, and I point higher to the sky for lower-frequency notes. (Another way of putting this is that I analogise longer wavelength tones as more skyward, and shorter wavelength tones as more groundward (or even feetward)).
That’s the way I’ve always done it, even without realising it, and it only came to light when I was first faced with systems that other people had devised, and found difficulty.
The most productive I’ve been lately is with a Lightpad Block, which I’ve turned around so that it has higher pitch down here on the left near corner, and the lower pitches over there on the right far corner. It just works instinctively like that – there’s none of this stumbling resistance and confounding difficulty that a keyboard has. If it were all laid out in a row, it might even be easier (perhaps like a keyboard, but laid out with the higher pitch direction over here on the left).
Obviously, a physical instrument can’t be switched – which is why I had to pay extra for a left-handed guitar and forgo the choices of colours, back in those days. A software instrument can be switched, and there’s really no excuse for not letting me choose X flip, Y flip, or XY flip for my control surface. Almost every synth with a keyboard, for example, should let me flip it to the more comfortable and meaningful orientation. Most (well, all) don’t, and I consider this inexcusable and non-inclusive.