I’ve been thinking for a long time that there is still a lot of opportunity for instruments like this - with a custom device OS, purpose built for music making, lots of I/O, good hardware interface. I wish music hardware manufacturers would just add an HDMI or display out on their devices, and then perhaps we could have a lot more screen real estate without needing a computer.
Considering the number of times that desktop OS upgrades, desktop hardware problems, etc. have impacted using PC or Mac based DAWs, I don’t understand why manufacturers aren’t going more aggressively after specialized music devices (other than the cost).
The new Akai MPC One or MPC X are pretty close to what I mean, but if they had just added a monitor output... even via USB, so one could get a larger screen experience...
Considering the number of times that desktop OS upgrades, desktop hardware problems, etc. have impacted using PC or Mac based DAWs, I don’t understand why manufacturers aren’t going more aggressively after specialized music devices (other than the cost).
The new Akai MPC One or MPC X are pretty close to what I mean, but if they had just added a monitor output... even via USB, so one could get a larger screen experience...