I had a play with one of the Fujitsu prototypes just before it came out, and when it detected your finger near the screen a mouse pointer would appear - I didn't get to try Ableton on it, but had assumed that that would help deal with its fairly small interface elements.
A nice pair of white gloves would deal with the sweaty- fingertip issue too... :) Brendan > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Dust [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 03 December 2004 15:50 > To: Brendan Nelson > Cc: 313@hyperreal.org > Subject: Re: (313) Ableton control (was RE: (313) Sasha) > > > We have one of these B (it's a converted pub quiz machine), > it doesn't > like sweaty fingertips for a start and Ableton's screen detail is way > to small for it to handle it properly. Still it would be fun turning > you with two of them. > > Martin > > > > > On 3 Dec 2004, at 15:41, Brendan Nelson wrote: > > > What I reckon would sort me out is one of those tablet PCs with > > the touch screens - particularly the ones that are made with > > heavy rubber padding around them to make them robust and resilient. > > > > That way you could just lay the "screen" part of the laptop flat > > out in front of you, and control it by touching the screen. In > > Ableton that would work really well, I reckon; just put your finger > > on one of the faders, move it up & down, then grab the crossfader > > and wiggle it about. Because it doesn't use right mouse buttons I > > don't think there'd be any real problems with using it through a > > touch-screen interface. > > > >> From the point of view of the audience, it wouldn't be a hell of > > a lot different from watching someone work a turntable; one of the > > big problems with laptop performances is that the screen is > > positioned like a barrier between the artist and the crowd. Lay the > > screen out flat in front of the artist and it might as well be a > > 1200 for all the audience care. > > > > The drawback is that you couldn't do more than one thing at once - > > if that got sorted, though, and you had the equivalent of four > > mouse pointers running at once, that'd be a pretty good way of > > controlling Ableton. Chuck away the mouse and all your MIDI > > peripherals and just use the screen itself as the "virtual mixer"... > > > >
