Comments on: reactogon interactive sequencer reminds me of star trek

By: TechBender

TechBender — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:08:05 +0000

The sound palette is purely a matter of aestetics; it’s just the sort of sound you would naturally associate with this kind of computerized.

The sound produced could be anything once mapped appropriately.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:55:46 +0000

This looks pretty cool. It’s a great new interaction mechanism.

However, in terms of music, it’s a huge step backwards. Why do new electronic music systems always have to sound like a late-1980’s personal computer? It’s not like it’s *that* hard to produce the sound of a jazz quintet or string quartet or some other actual kind of music.

So color me a bit suspicious that this is more of an awesome visual show than it is useful for making good music. But it is a pretty cool visual show.

By: Joshua B

Joshua B — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:05:21 +0000

You may want to check out elysium (http://lucidmac.com/products/elysium/) it’s an osx sequencer based on reactogon

By: technabob

technabob — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:03:30 +0000

For those of you complaining about this not being “new”, please note that I wrote this article back in September 2007.

By: John

John — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:33:13 +0000

Seems very limited in what it can do, and unintuitive for musicians. Zero marketability.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:10:24 +0000

That’s actually not “radically new”. It even shares a portion of the same name as this device which came out years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm_FzLya8y4

I don’t know if it’s the same designers or not but if it’s not, it’s kinda gay.

By: dario

dario — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:21:45 +0000

Wow i MUST buy a thing like this!!! where can i find it? i really wanna buy it…

By: jefferson hubbell

jefferson hubbell — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:50:15 +0000

booklet? Somebody is selling the thing if it’s got a booklet published. Who? Will they accept cash?

By: distrofg

distrofg — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:26:29 +0000

Definitely very cool, but i guess after a few weeks of trying all possible patterns from the booklet, the internet, and inventing my own, im gonna get back to my good old keyboard.

By: inuma

inuma — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:48:07 +0000

where can you buy that thing ?

By: CoolMuzzy

CoolMuzzy — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:25:27 +0000

Wow this is crazy! I want to buy one soo bad!
Where can i buy one from if possible?

By: technabob

technabob — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:33:08 +0000

whoa.

By: Winslow Theramin

Winslow Theramin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:13:57 +0000

Bill Laimbeer of the Detroit Pistons was a Sleestack:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0481806/

which wasn’t much of a stretch for him.

By: technabob

technabob — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:49:58 +0000

Holy crap. Somebody else out there still remembers what a Sleestak is. I don’t feel so ancient anymore.

BTW, what were Sid and Marty Krofft smoking? I’d like some of it.

By: VitaminCM

VitaminCM — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:10:16 +0000

It looks like the thing on Land of the Lost that the Sleestak guy would use to manipulate time and space.
He never could get Marshal, Will, and Holly back home!

By: duder

duder — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:19:59 +0000

sweet. where can i buy that?

By: Randfigur

Randfigur — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:04:39 +0000

Wow, the first instrument to actually play Trance. Really a neat invention. Not my style of music, though.

I wonder if they have a virtual version of this.

By: technabob

technabob — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:14:10 +0000

You wanna know what he’s saying?
“No Kitty, That’s my Pot Pie!”

By: the scholar

the scholar — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:05:17 +0000

the large disc farthest down in the photo reminds me of a floating, singing south park character head.

cool!