Apple today made a variety of introductions today ranging from upgrading its top-of-the-line Mac Pro to a drool-worthy 12 cores to giving its sexy iMac line a speed bump.
The most interesting introduction of the day, though, is the new Magic Trackpad – a wireless pad that brings multi-touch gestures to Mac OS X computers running Snow Leopard.
More users are now working on Mac laptops than desktop computers, so the lack of multi-touch input on desktops limits development of Mac multi-touch apps.
The Magic Trackpad changes that. And, at $69, it’s within reach of just about anyone.
It’s easy to imagine interesting musical uses for the Magic Trackpad, ranging from a wireless X-Y controller to a open-ended control surface.
This raises the question: will the Magic Trackpad jumpstart mac music app development like the iPad has?
Leave a comment with your thoughts!
This could be a really cool way to leverage the screen real estate on an iPad for music apps – separate X-Y pads, anyone?
if this (http://www.anyma.ch/2009/research/multitouch-external-for-maxmsp/) works, it will
Wow, I did not know this. If it works as advertised it should be quite interesting to use. Thank's for the info!
Along with third party gesture software (Better Touch Tool) it could become an entirely new instrument controller!