JohnnyBusca
rocket scientist
Toch wel erg mooi.. veel ledjes..
Ik ben benieuwd of ie op de NAMM te zien zal zijn.. werkend..
Ik ben benieuwd of ie op de NAMM te zien zal zijn.. werkend..
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Is een prototype voor een commercieel verkrijgbaar product... Net zoals de G2 en de MonoMachine destijds toen ze nog niet uit waren.Origineel geplaatst door GREENSKiN
Neejjoh, niet op de NAMM, 't is zelfbouw.
http://www.infectionmusic.co.uk/prototype2004/zeitstartupsequence.mov
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Blijft super mooi..


> let's face it... if we were all big computer music people, i don't think
> we'd be that excited about something like the zeit. sure, it's basically
> a computer itself, but let's all agree that we're excited about the
> interface. hopefully, this device will erase the boundary between human
> and machine. a computer is just a tool to me. i am looking for a true
> electronic instrument.
This is *exactly* what Zeit is meant to be.
First of all, I wanted to do away with all of the electronic mumbo-jumbo
that goes along with "beige box syndrome". I just wanted a box that I could
turn on and, seconds later, it would be ready to make tunes. No waiting for
boot cycles, no waiting for 'Happy Mac' icons to appear, no "You have mail"
garbage to wade through. One power switch, "click", and the studio is ready
for operation.
John's attitude of not having a sophisticated computer in the studio sits
perfectly with me. My studio computer is actually a 1998 beige 266MHz Mac G3
running Cubase 3 and Pro Tools lite. It has a few games - Quake and PacMan -
but they're only for grey days when the muse isn't in town. Essentially, it
has nothing installed that will distract from making noises. It's hooked up
to my Kurzweil for downloading samples but that's about as sophisticated as
it gets. I've found that *anything* more complex is guaranteed to go wrong
almost all of the time and time spent fixing computer problems is time that
isn't spent writing music.
When we sat down to design Zeit, first and foremost, we wanted a musical
instrument, not something that was pretending to be a musical instrument.
All of the important stuff had to be easy to get to at the touch of button
or the turn of a knob. If you have to think for more than a couple of
seconds about how to accomplish a task with Zeit then I, personally, see it
as a failure and the design is wrong.
A good example is a trick I use a lot in Cubase for pushing rhythm sections
along - I take a hi-hat track or a bass pattern and simply double the tempo.
In Cubase, it's a complex operation. You have to think about what you're
doing. You have to take the part, apply the double tempo routine, cut the
original part in two (because it's half the original length), delete the
empty half, copy the first half, position the copy immediately after the
first part and finally glue to the two parts together.
With Zeit, the operation is one button push.
Equally, suppose you want to route a track through Cubase's MIDI effects
processor - you have to find the track in the "locator", route it through to
MROS then open up the MIDI effects processor, make sure the input is from
MROS, change the MIDI channel, try to figure out why it doesn't work etc etc
etc.
Again, with Zeit, it's a single button push, two if you have to reset the
MIDI channel, three if you have to turn the MIDI processor on.
If you have to go wading through layers of buttons and key combinations to
accomplish something as simple as muting and unmuting a track then you're
not playing an instrument, you're playing a computer that wants to be an
instrument.
There are some instances with Zeit where you *have* to think but this is
only because there's a risk of ruining valuable data. Look at this problem
from the point of view of, say, a clarinet player. To get the best sound,
you have to know something about the reed, you have to know how to trim and
adjust the reed so that the sound it makes is pure. That requires thought,
experience and manual dexterity. So, with Zeit, you have to think about how
you're going to save sequences or load patches especially if you do this
live. If you do it wrong then everyone gets to hear the mistake. Just like
playing a real instrument.
This is why Zeit doesn't have an "Undo" button. I hate and detest "Undo"
buttons because they give you an emergency exit in case you do something
stupid. Undo buttons, to me, lack commitment. I've never seen a violin or a
saxophone with an Undo button.
So, Zeit *really* isn't about adding an interface to a computer, it's about
designing a real instrument for real musicians. This is why there will
never, ever be a software version of Zeit. It's completely alien to the
entire design philosophy behind the instrument.
Blimey. That was a long one.
Enough for now. I need to go sit down.
Best wishes
David
--
Infection Music Limited.
