Interesting Device For Composers...

This is just a concept for now, but I thought the idea itself was very nice and there ARE already similar devices on the market which do more or less the same thing. Interesting bridge between the digital and by-hand composer groups. See what you think:

Compose Music Tablet Concept Synthtopia

I'd use it - if it really worked well, which I doubt it does at this point. Maybe someday.

I agree with you that it probably doesn't work so well in this iteration, but I'd still be extremely curious to get my hands on one to play around and see. I hope that more of this kind of device hit the markets though, I think they'd have a lot of eager takers.

They've already invented something like this. It's called a PC tablet computer.

An interesting compromise. Definitely something I'd be interested in using if it should turn out to be good.

However, I also like to have sketches in physical existence - not sure if this device precludes that.

Sure, Justin, but personally I'd much rather spend $200 on a tablet that's specifically for music notation rather than $2,000 or more on a tablet PC.

Sure, Justin, but personally I'd much rather spend $200 on a tablet that's specifically for music notation rather than $2,000 or more on a tablet PC.

Granted. But you can't check e-mail with that thing.

Yeah, but you can wait till you go home.

Exactly...the whole point of having a dedicated composition notepad device is that you DON'T have the distractions of a full computing environment. That would be what I consider an advantage, at least.

An interesting compromise. Definitely something I'd be interested in using if it should turn out to be good.

However, I also like to have sketches in physical existence - not sure if this device precludes that.

It looks pretty cool. If it was USB in some way, I'd be even more down, since you could save the files to a hard drive and use the thing as a huge xy pad...

Could the stuff be imported into Sibelius?

From what I read in some other articles about it, it definitely connects to the computer (though I'm not sure if it's USB or something else - probably wireless) and you can transfer the files in some manner of cross-application standard notation formatting like MusicXML so that you can import it into whatever sequencer/notation software you use.

i want one......

The most basic software prerequisites for something like this have to exist and be quite reliable before anyone can even think about putting it in a friendly little box. And even that isn't particularly close, really. Music notation input by stylus, I can sort of see happening, although I'm not sure how much of an incentive there is to develop it to the extent necessary for consumer applications like this, even though I personally think it seems pretty usable. But the audio-to-notation stuff? Forget about it.

Don't miss the key words of this story: design concept. It doesn't exist.

It looks really cool, but there's no way I'd trust something like this without having tried it myself. If this is able to read highly complex rhythms, microtones, special expressions, articulations and so on, and all without doing too many mistakes, I'm impressed. I highly doubt it though.

And yeah, the audio-to-notation stuff is a gadget that has a high probability of being completely useless. Maybe for music you can quantise in a strict grid. But that's also the kind of music you can enter extremely quickly with Finale and a midi keyboard.

I don't care about audio, but as a portable sketch pad I'd be thrilled.

And yeah, the audio-to-notation stuff is a gadget that has a high probability of being completely useless. Maybe for music you can quantise in a strict grid. But that's also the kind of music you can enter extremely quickly with Finale and a midi keyboard.

There will be interested people, though. Maybe you're singing a phrase that you have in your head, but you can't figure out what it is on a keyboard because your ear isn't quite that good. Hell, happens from time to time with those of us with trained ears as well. This product would help you figure out the correct pitches.

If it used finale as its software I'd want it! But only if you can print from it, import and export compositions etc

I can't wait until some of the Big names get into this technology. It will probably take a couple of years for it to come to fruition, but it will be awesome when it does!

My composition teacher could use this - he's an old-school pen and paper guy so he has to pay someone to notate it into finale etc so he can print all the parts and stuff.

Chris

Pretty good :)

I'm perfectly happy using keyboard input in Sibelius.

It actually looks pretty awesome but as most of you have already pointed out, its probably not all that its cut out to be.

Still I wouldn't mind getting my hands on when try it out.

As soon as this happens im gonna try to find it but ya, this is just a concept and when it does happen its gonna be very expensive but its a beautiful idea and when it becomes cost effective im sure sibelius or makemusic will go for it

They will BOTH take advantage of it in SOME way, I am sure. Question is... will this be successful?