In a CRT TV, you increase contrast and the whites do not overboost the tones whites to a complete mass of white, flat white, like a damm LCD TV or monitor does.

If you show a monitor or TV IPS kind, that do not kill tonalities near pure white tone, I would be impressed.

Look this gradiente:

You have black to White. CRT displays make the pure whites brighter, cause increase the luminous power of the crt tube.  In a %$@%*&#@ LCD screen, they can't increase the power of pure white light in the contrast adjust, so they make the tones near white go to complete white, killing a good deal of the gradiente, the tones.

I know most LED monitors allow to increase the backlight power, intensity, but this is not connected to contrast adjust, but in a separate adjust... and don't help much.

And no Monitor/TV (TV/monior) have adjust to make the light standart proper to TV, and all TV signals, broadcast looks fadded. If you try to adjust brightness and contrast you got a mess, not a decente TV look.
This problem also exist in a CRT monitor trying to reproduce a film made fot TV CRT display.  I remamber my first PC DVD kit, and all after that, that Always reproduced films ina faded look, and adjusts was hopeless, while the same film on TV look very good, glossy with fine dynamics range, descity, and tonalities.

I challenge you to show me one monitor in the whole world that solve theses problems.
Hêe hêee hêe...

:-)

Until there no LCD monitor is good enough.

I am using a relatively low pointer sensitivity (to allow very fine movements), but a relatively high pointer acceleration, to also make it easy to move the pointer rapidly. This combination works well.

Greg.

[off topic]
I'm glad I ignored your warning about the trackball Jake, because I really like it! I'm actually using it all the time - even when I could easily use the mouse.  I suspect I'm a bit less productive with it, but it's just so nice to use that I don't mind.

Greg.

Well, I could never control it well. If I had used one for more time, I might have learned to control it better.
I just found a refurbished touchscreen monitor that I'm setting up today. Seems to work well with Pianoteq, although I'm having trouble selecting the yellow bars in the spectrum edit window. Fortunately, this monitor reacts to a stylus, too. My big clumsy hands may have been the problem with the trackball.

How well does trackball work with Pianoteq? Can you control it precisely when moving sliders?

Greg.

RE: the Leapmotion, I noticed this comment on their site: https://www.leapmotion.com/product

I think if it were capable of replacing a mouse, they'd have stated that as well, but they haven't. (that's not to say it isn't a very interesting and exciting thing, which it appears to be)

Greg.

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/04/f...ap-motion/

Looks as though the relatively low price of the device will keep the price of the applications low.

EDIT: There's also a link to the manual for Geco: http://uwyn.com/geco/

Hard to believe--Pianoteq releases a break-through update, revisions of the major pianos, and an upright, and this device is released, all in about a month's span. We do live in interesting times.

About the sensor... I don't know for sure how usefull it would be for 2D. Hand and mouse support it's probable less tiresome than hands on air. Try yourself to let the hands free moving in the air. After a few time we feel tired.
Of course that for 3D modelling it's other thing. Faster...
And for 2D in a surface, with place to hands can be better than free on the air.

About future problems on hands of users, it's a serious problem, cause if you go to physiotherapy clinic, they use the same silly gadgets than decades ago. Electric pulses, ice bags, exercises, some ultrasound to warm tissue.  Stopped in time, a museum.
 

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off topic: It really annoys me that indeed that is often right, Beto-Music. But often it's that way, like you state.

Interesting thread, thanks for starting it, I had no clue... the guitar-midi-side would be quite interesting, if such things would be possible a myriad of guitarists of the past would have been very happy. I remember Jan Akkerman toyed with such things a lot, but was never fully happy with the results.

Back to pianoteq ...  (and back to other things for a second - of course the main use, Jake, would be for pornography, no question about that, compared to serious use for, in our case, pianoteq....)

Well, let's see what the future will bring - people, and I know some, for example developers, with serious hand problems after years of mouse-using would indeed find it nice to for example set mics with such gestures in pianoteq...

In a word processor, of course, any gesture could be tied to a macro, so that any motion could perform any string of commands, but some gestures might be natural:

-Putting passages in text boxes might make it more valuable: Simple to reorganize a sequence of paragraphs.
-A finger gesture could turn a page.
-A pulling or pushing gesture could zoom in and out, making text larger or small enough that several pages can be seen at once.
-For brief documents, the user may be able to hold up a number of fingers to go to a given page.
-"Drawing" an X across a word could delete it.

For Pianoteq, beyond using it for dragging sliders and changing effects in real-time, I'm wondering:

-A hard finger flick towards a slider could open the Note Edit pane for the parameter?
-I'm assuming that in a Note edit pane, a finger movement could drag the setting for a note up or down. Could three fingers move three settings at once? A bit of finger painting in the Spectrum profile NE pane?
-Moving mics around with a fingertip could be nice. May be able to move several mics at once, using several fingers. And move the new upright piano's wall.
-Arranging several NE panes on the screen could be easy, along with changing their size.

Things I hope don't catch on:

--Holding a hand to one's ear causes a midi file to play. Suddenly, mime gestures are popular. Thumbs up saves a file; thumbs down to close a file without saving.
--Tongue gesturing. Seriously, there's a video on Youtube that shows someone using his tongue with a Leap Motion. Has serious applications for people with disabilities, but I fear the thought of people flipping through books with tongue-darts.
--I'm not going to talk about pornography among serious people like ourselves.
--Museum installations in which a patron's movements trigger lights and sound. Well, this could be fun and serious, but there will be a lot of bad stuff, too. Already being done with motion sensors, but this device will just make it less expensive and easier.

Too bad you're in Brazil (judging by your e-mail)... Those import costs are - ridiculous. I can get that Dell for 260€ here in Croatia. So I'm going to get two of them.

Such monitor it's not available here yet, and importation would be the only way.

And for me anyway it's like a flying source. I only believe watching myself.    ;-)

And inchs for 16:9 it's not the same thing in final area as 4:3. 
A given X value for diagonal inchs result in a larger area for a 4:3 than for 16:9

A 29 inches TV (4:3) looks big, but a 29 inchs (16/9) TV looks small.

300€ it's very expansive. 

OLED it's reported as having even better colors and purer blacks.  But it's a new thing, even more expansive.

Oled will save the world from this actual misery of  slim screens.   When get affordable...

EvilDragon wrote:

Beto-Music wrote:

Ok, maybe this specific model of Dell it's perhapse acceptable.

But I bet it costs a fortune.

No, it's <300€! Quite affordable for 24" with such image quality.

I don't find 300€ very expensive (it's definitely not "a fortune"), especially for a 24" monitor. Pianoteq Pro costs more! Not to mention that a CRT monitor of the same size would be even more expensive than 300€), so... Your argument is invalid.

Is this thing any good for mundane text editing? I'm looking for something to replace a mouse when working on my laptop in a confined space in my car.  I don't like touchpads. Haven't tried a trackball yet but I don't think I'll like that much either.

Greg.

I'm holding my breath about the possibilities for text editing. It's sensitive, possibly too sensitive for fine motor movements in the air like trying to select a sentence or drag selected text around a page. But since it can apparently turn a normal screen into a touchscreen, it should be as good as a touc screen for editing text. (Trackballs, for me, have been terrible for text--too hard to control precise movements.)