Monday, December 17, 2007

Dexter DAW Controller


I stumbled across this last night and I must say this thing is pretty cool. It's by a company called Jazzmutant. It's a multi touch DAW controller. The best way I can describe this thing is that it is like a giant iPod touch screen that controls your DAW.
This is not the first touch screen controller on the market but what is so special about this is that it has Multi touch capabilities meaning that all 10 fingers can be touching the screen simultaneously and moving the sliders up and down just like a real mixer in real-time. This will be great for tasks like leveling multiple tracks. It also has very cool interfaces for adjusting the equalization, panning, and other effects making controlling your DAW a lot more fun and natural feeling.

JazzMutant has gotten together with some of the leading DAW producers so they could better integrate visual representation and two-way communication between your Daw and Dexter. The amount of information shown on the screen of the Dexter at all times is almost enough that you could turn your PC screen off and still control your Daw.
You can see a video of it here, I'm sure you will be impressed. It's kind of like when you look at your Daw and see all of the cool sliders and knobs and wish you could just control them by touching the screen, will now you can.
As far as pricing goes I can’t seem to find any online but I would guess since it is a upgrade of sorts or a next generation of the Lemur from the same company it will probably be around the same price which is a steep $2500…..Yes, you read it right…..$2500.
Anyway check it out here and go to YouTube and type in Dexter DAW and watch the videos and see what you think.

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