Instruments • Re: I don't really have any software synths that I LOVE !

As you can clearly see in that video which is official from the manufacturer there is no place to comfortably rest your arms you always have to hold it in front of you and hold your wrist at a weird angle because if your palm touches the screen at all, it will assume you touched something and that will cause issues and adjust something you didn't want to

I'm still trying to parse this? when I type I don't rest my palm on the keyboard while hitting keys? The unnatural thing is to have your arms extended all the way and to have them at a 90º angle and above, slightly bent and under your shoulder is where your arms feel comfortable, similar to piano ergonomics, you don't rest your hands when you play keyboards either.

I really wanted touch screens to work, I was ready and willing to buy a dual screen Raven or a very expensive Wacom monitor system because I wanted them to work. They are great for mixing where you are using your fingers to control virtual faders, they can be great for general web browsing and office type work along with a QWERTY keyboard, and on my laptop I love them so I can pinch and zoom in and out of things

but for editing complex plugins they are actually pretty horrible in my experience

The plugin has to be designed with touch in mind. Most Arturia, U-He, Cherry, work just fine.

I think this is why Raven is advertised as a Mixing system for your DAW rather than a solution for deep editing of VSTs. I think for simple things with VSTs like a compressor plugin or an EQ they could be awesome, but spending hours in HALion, or Omnisphere, or Falcon or something similar no thanks, my 50 something year old arms, shoulder, and wrists ache just thinking about it

It's not that at all, in fact Jamey the main QA, support for the Raven is someone with bad carpal tunnel from a mouse and keyboard, that's why they get so into making everything about the touch. It's the exact opposite, mouse and keyboard are more likely to cause damage. I do a hybrid approach, because I also have a lighted keyboard with all of DPs key commands on it, so it's not faster than the commands I already know.

In terms of Falcon or Kontakt, yeah those GUI's are not touch friendly, I use the mouse with those for the most part, and no solution besides Macros and performance assignments for parts of a patch you want hardware control would be any good for either of them IMO. Same with Reaktor, Max/MSP, Massive X or any other not designed at all for touch VI's.

Statistics: Posted by machinesworking — Mon Jan 13, 2025 11:02 pm

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