The idea of a dedicated portable, all-in-one music production computer piqued our interest ever since the touchscreen tablet computer debuted. The concept only heated up with every subsequent rumor of a MacBook Tablet that hit our desks during the last couple of years.
Now designers Young-Shin Lee and Hae-Jin Jung have taken the concept to the next level by developing the Vivace multi-touch portable music studio. The Vivace has an extended clamshell multi-touch-touchscreen design, which contains everything you need to play, record and edit your compositions on the fly.
The Vivace’s screen morphs into whatever feature you need for the moment including a keyboard, sound editor or sequencer. Lee and Jung also highlight the ability to easily browse samples and loops, manipulate an equalizer, tweak a filter and more.
The Vivace concept is more a matter of when, than if…
a company called ‘Seven Level Systems SDN BHD’ (in Malaysia) are working on several touch screen music production interfaces and hardware devices. the company is run by an English guy from Leeds.