Tenori-On goes mainstream

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tomskerous

#15
March 03, 2009, 08:36:42 PM
Gimp - it's okay, but it's not at all user friendly and you can tell it was written by unix developers rather than people thinking about graphic design or art. I only use it when I have no choice - compared to photoshop it's a right pain.
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#16
March 03, 2009, 08:49:47 PM
If you have the dosh, photoshop everytime. If you're like me, no access to photoshop through work, no Fred pension and opposed to software theft) you make do with the gimp  or cover-disk compromises. They are quite capable but Tom's right about the interfaces.
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#17
March 03, 2009, 09:58:31 PM
I agree that PhotoShop is a much more polished tool than Gimp; no question about it. It's more just a question of what the intended purpose is: anyone who spends much of their day working with photos, graphics, artwork is surely going to want the full power of PhotoShop, whereas someone doing something occasionally might be fine with Gimp. Works for me these days, although it's been 10 years since I did anything serious in PhotoShop.

That said, interfaces are clearly important: I can't bear bloody PowerPoint any more, not since I switched to the altogether more intuitive Keynote for lectures and talks. And as for Word ... my god, what a piece of ...

Then again, as many gooey-drippy-goodness-click-here windows I may have open on my Mac at any given time, there are also always a bunch of terminal windows open too for doing real scientific work and for editing in LaTeX ...   ;)

All a bit serious; what about that wine club, Nell?

Nellie

#18
March 03, 2009, 10:12:35 PM
Yeah, whatever!
It's in the post!

Bert

#19
March 03, 2009, 10:49:16 PM
I like SweetShop the best.
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#20
March 03, 2009, 11:25:39 PM
Quote from: "Nellie"Yeah, whatever!

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Drarok

#22
March 04, 2009, 07:25:48 PM
Another vote for Pixelmator for simpler edits than Photoshop. The load time on Pixlemator is about 2 seconds compared to Photoshop's 9. It might not seem much, but it soon becomes tedious, and if your machine is running other things, or not that powerful (mine's a Mac Pro with 5 GB RAM. :D) it'll take even longer...

But, if you need to do some pro-level pixel mangling, it'll be that Photoshop beast.

As for Dreamweaver, yuk! I've yet to find any so-called WYSIWYG editor produce properly usable HTML for anything more complex than a shopping list. We do it all by hand at work.

AnsOnkruid

#23
March 04, 2009, 07:54:52 PM
Quote from: "DannySoisSage"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_BMnwIbWJw

...wow...
I like! :D
I think it's even cooler than the Tenori-On. But then again, what do I know :)

And about Photoshop etc... a lot of people seem to like Paint Shop Pro. You can get almost the same effects as Photoshop and they say it's better than The Gimp, but I think it's horrible - way too difficult, not user friendly. I don't understand it at all. But one can always try...
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Jem

#24
March 05, 2009, 09:59:06 PM
There's an even better one here -

//http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxChXpAoJ7w&feature=related

I have a terrible feeling... ;)

Steve

#25
March 05, 2009, 10:03:00 PM
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DannySoisSage

#26
March 05, 2009, 10:06:07 PM
Quote from: "Jem"I have a terrible feeling that I will have to own this and use it to play Secret Song live

This 'quote' thing is awesome  :roll:

That is an awesome piece of kit, would be even better if you could get some audience visual for it (which obviously is a major cool thing with the Tenori-On). Not much point having something so damn cool looking on stage and not letting anyone see it.

Trapezium Artist

#27
March 05, 2009, 11:24:16 PM
Quote from: "Jem"There's an even better one here -

//http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxChXpAoJ7w&feature=related

I have a terrible feeling... ;)

Wow - that one was well worth the time. Very, very catchy; beautifully executed. Ok, he loses it a bit in the last minute and I have no idea how many friends with video cameras he has, but excellent work.

Go on, Jem you know you want ... and that we want you too ...  :D

SerFox

#28
March 06, 2009, 06:44:46 PM
Quote from: "Jem"There's an even better one here -

//http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxChXpAoJ7w&feature=related

I have a terrible feeling... ;)

I can do that by formatting my Macbook, plugging it into my KAOSS pad and widdling during the intro music  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Jem

#29
March 07, 2009, 06:06:19 PM
I have done some extensive reading into the Lemur and it's quite latent. Up to 70ms in some cases. And it's memory is only 2mb which means that if you load up a bunch of complicated control scenes, you can quickly run out of memory and the latency gets worse as they effectively keep running in the background even if you aren't looking at them. And it prefers OCS as a communication protocol over MIDI.

That said, I'm still going to get one on Monday. They're £500 off at the moment until the 15th. With the saving, I'm going to get Ableton Live and get my head into that later in the year. I'm clearly missing something as all my tech-y chums rave about it. I have a new non prog project that I want to get up and running towards the end of the year and this will all be perfect components for it.
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