Can’t believe the price tag on the big one. As cool as it might seem, considering you could get a Lemur, a top-of-the-line laptop, a full-size weighted keyboard, and a decent used car for the price of just one, it’s totally not worth it. The pico is another story, interested to hear if you get it rolling!

However, I would love to see a Max External that could talk directly to the USB drivers, returning essentially key and controller information so that EigenD could be bypassed completely and Max used instead to process data. There would be an [EigenIn] that’s similar to the [midiin] but provides info about what key was pressed, X, Y, Z movement and controller data.

I have an Alpha and it’s an amazingly expressive instrument. I don’t have the expertise nor time available to figure out how to access the raw data myself but I think there’s tremendous potential for combining the two.