Thomas Mascall Designs Touchtable, Palm-Sized Turntable Player/Controller

Thomas Mascall, a Falmouth design student, has created the Touchtable, a compact turntable player/controller concept. The Touchtable contain a digital music player and a turntable paradigm into a single, palm-sized unit. His idea is to have the user interact more with their music, but the real takeaway for gear whores like ourselves is how great this would be to use with Traktor or the like… EKS first captured our imagination...

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Christian Bannister Unleashes The SubCycle Multitouch Instrument

Christian Bannister, a musician, designer and developer located in Portland, Oregon, turned us on to his Subcycle multitouch instrument. Here’s how he describes the Subcycle in his own words: This is part of a series of sketches exploring the potential to bridge the gap between sound visualization and musical instrument. With multi-touch interaction it is possible to manipulate multiple characteristics of a sound—visually, and...

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