Sunday, January 7, 2007
Controllers in the house
Happy 2007 everyone. Look what I did with the cash the tooth fairy (or whatshisname) put in my stockings for that recent public holiday:
An M-Audio Oxygen8 v2 MIDI Controller (25 keys, 8 knobs and some switches) and a pink Nintendo DS. Yes, pink.
The geek friends’ peer pressure (and the fact that 0xtob made the fantastic wireless MIDI software DSMIDIWifi; basically only that) finally convinced me that I needed a DS too. Still waiting for my R4DS card that will enable me to use all that fine homebrew software, though. Orders from Hong Kong seem to take some time due to the recent earthquake in Taiwan. Until then I have to resort to Brain Age as my only (borrowed) game.
The Oxygen works nicely and came with a “lite” version of Ableton Live which I’m now trying to get addicted to so that at one point I just have to invest the 260 Euros for an upgrade to the full version. Talk about follow-up costs.
