http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kmi/quneo-multi-touch-open-source-midi-and-usb-pad-con

I think physical controllers are over, but I am making a kinect thing, so I am biased :)

We have a “tradition” of things like this, including but not limited to jazzmutant lemur and monome. Thing about this is you can do 1000 things with them, but you want to do thing # 1001. In my project I try and go for as much flexibility as possible while maintaining simplicity.

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It appears that, in designing for ordinary gesture capability there is a trend towards repetition and imitation. Designing for extraordinary ability generates real innovation: skoog, audiocubes, magicflute. This is a blatant generalization though.

if you’re interested you can have a look at my first ones – there’s one patch with a grid to select the drumpad and then a slider for red and a slider for green LEDs

http://cycling74.com/forums/topic.php?id=43758

Thanks! Great stuff and super helpful. Drum pads work perfectly. But on the other sliders, qu.parse is only outputting on/off (0/127) and pressure – no information on position. Any chance that could be added?

Thanks again -

This is a new version. It fixes a number of bugs. There’s a “dazzling” new qu.parse help file. Give it a shot.

/This took quite a bit of work.

Unfortunately we can’t have both direction and position for some reason. Personally I’d rather them function like endless encoders as opposed to knobs. What I wish, and have suggested, is that they’d implement a message to set all this stuff via midi. It would be nice to have different configurations of drum and grid mode pads etc.

Unfortunately we can’t have both direction and position for some reason

Sounds like the uncertainty principle at work?

I tried changing the rotaries to “location” in the editor, but I’m not getting location, just constant counter-clockwise movement. Is there a trick to getting location to work? (but I probably agree with you that endless encoders are nicer anyway)

personally I think more would be overkill for these pads: you will not be able to set values finer than that due to the way the pads and sliders respond: it’s not that delicate a control. I find with both the softstep and the Quneo it’s great to have the pressure sensitivity but it’s hard to control it finely: it’s cool to make variations in a parameter but you wouldn’t use them to, for example, very finely set a delay time, filter cutoff or position a sound or image.