AudioPad has a competitor!

(So if you haven't already check out the AudioPad post a while back.)



I got the link to this extraordinary interface through the eMusician Xtra e-newsletter. Had it not been for the AudioPad several months ago this would have blown my socks off. Called the Reactable this is a revolutionary interface that could change music production as we know it. Both surfaces are just so far ahead of current consumer-level technology it is insane. Yet, that's what makes them so cool. Who knows, in 20 years all music programming and synthesis will be in this form. In short, this is a table top, projected, virtual music synthesis program. Using several different blocks placed on the table, sounds can be created and manipulated with other blocks or with the adjustable controls around each block projected onto the table. I wish more information was available about the manipulation and programming of these systems, but it seems simmilar in some aspects to smartboards used in schools. Watch the video, you'll understand.