Reactable - synthesiser fans, you'll love this

[Johnny Yesno]

Cor! I really want one of these. It looks enormous fun. Have a look at the demo mp4s.

It's going to have an outing this week at Optronica. Not sure I'll be able to make that, unfortunately.

[butnut]

Ha, you could waste a lot of time playing with that. I reminds me of those futuristic-type instruments in Star Trek or Buck Rogers!

[NoSleep]

Great! I would love a virtual interface that worked liked that, but on-screen, for me to operate & build with NI's Reaktor software. I might have got a little further than I have with it.

[buttgammon]

At the risk of sounding like I'm a twat from Orange County, California, "That's like the coolest thing in the world ever!"

God, I really want one of them, now. Puts my regular "play the keyboard to make sound" synth to shame, and I love my synthesizer.

[Johnny Yesno]

Ha, you could waste a lot of time playing with that. I reminds me of those futuristic-type instruments in Star Trek or Buck Rogers!

Oh yes, it goes right to my 70s kid core. It would have been Tomorrow's World's bread and butter (and table to eat it off).

Puts my regular "play the keyboard to make sound" synth to shame, and I love my synthesizer.

It looks a lot easier to understand what you are doing with a Reactable than with a keyboard, what with the waves being displayed between the nodes modifying them. And that metronome puts everything in time that comes near it. That's bloody handy, that is.

[Dusty Gozongas]

Cor! I really want one of these. It looks enormous fun. Have a look at the demo mp4s.

Intriguing innit?  I posted some (or possibly one) youtube (i think) links in a thread a few weeks ago. I'd look for it but I couldn't even use the search function when it actually worked 'cos I'm useless like that.

[buttgammon]

It looks a lot easier to understand what you are doing with a Reactable than with a keyboard, what with the waves being displayed between the nodes modifying them. And that metronome puts everything in time that comes near it. That's bloody handy, that is.

That's the appeal of it to me, really. You can see the actual parameters being adjusted rather than the musical notes. And the metronome sounds great for keeping time.

[Johnny Yesno]

Amongst the battery (see what I did there?) of technology Björk had on stage on Jools Holland was a bit of kit that looked suspiciously like one of Toshio Iwai's:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9SdugjLl0M[/youtube]

And the Reactable:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHeX6yg95xU[/youtube]

[glitch]

Ooh that looks pretty. Reminds me of this, another instrument/processing device which is pretty unconventional - it relies on you to move your hand in 3 dimensions above it to control what's going on.

I'm thinking of getting one around my birthday :v

[Johnny Yesno]

Ooh that looks pretty. Reminds me of this, another instrument/processing device which is pretty unconventional - it relies on you to move your hand in 3 dimensions above it to control what's going on.

I'm thinking of getting one around my birthday :v

Heh! I've got one. It's great but the airSynth isn't as much cop. Both suffer a bit from quite coarse control. I'd say try before you buy.