Pianoteq for tablet...

Pianoteq for iphone...

Pianoteq for smartphone...

And now people request pianoteq for a watch...

In a few years people will request pianoteq for a ring:

That's a great idea.

Pianoteq for iphone...

Pianoteq for smartphone...

And now people request pianoteq for a watch...

In a few years people will request pianoteq for a ring:

Jake Johnson wrote:

It occurs to me that the RAM could easily be put in the watch band instead of the watch itself.

Who the heck wears a watch anymore? Especially one of those with a hair catching expandable band? Get it onto a smartphone!

Yes, but consider the benefits of the watch: No need to take it from a pocket or purse, and no worries about it falling off the keyboard or about spills. One just sits down and plays.

I started this thread jokingly, but the more I consider the idea, the more I like it. Pianoteq would of course be very demanding. But I can imagine simpler instruments being a possibility. Not sampled instruments, unless hard drives get still smaller, or the samples were put into ROM chips. But drones built from sine waves?

It occurs to me that the RAM could easily be put in the watch band instead of the watch itself.

Who the heck wears a watch anymore? Especially one of those with a hair catching expandable band? Get it onto a smartphone!

Julien? Can we get a estimated time-of-delivery?

Time-of-delivery...very funny!

A processor that small running pianoteq might burn your wrist though...On the other hand, I would rather like two watches, one on each wrist, giving me the capabilities to play like Joe ! It's only a matter of exciting the right nerves after all...

Of course, users might be willing to sacrifice appearances for utility. Even if the watch was bulky, or if the user had to wear three watches and wire them together to have enough processors, the ability to sit down and play on any keyboard equipped with wireless midi might make the discomfort worthwhile. Would just need three buttons: On\Off, Next preset, Previous preset. Wireless for tranfering settings between a desk computer and the watch.

Julien? Can we get a estimated time-of-delivery?

EDIT: Without wireless audio, or a sound card chip installed in the watch, one might feel at a loss. One answer would be wireless headphones with an audio card imbedded in them. The watch would send midi data only. Better to have the audio card in the watch, however, with both wireless audio and wireless midi Outs.

Let's think about the midi protocol for a moment:  It was conceived in the early 1980s when memory and processing power were miniscule compared to today's technology.  Smart phones, these days, carry chips with 8-, 16- and 32GB memory, whereas some "large" midi files of solo piano might be 300 kilobytes.  Regarding sheer processing power, today's smart phones are able to capture movies -- far more processing capability than required of good old midi.

Just my thoughts,

Cheers,

Joe

The new Samsung Galaxy Gear is a line of watches with a computer chip and screen and wireless capabilities.

In a few years, can we expect to have fast enough chips on a watch to let us have full-blown programs on our wrist? With a wireless midi and wireless audio setup, we could essentially sit down at any midi controller and use it to play the Pianoteq installed on our watch?

Pure fantasy, of course, but I do wonder if it may become possible sooner than we might expect. The essential components exist, but are just too large? Could a processor like the ones in netbooks be shrunk to fit into a watch, along with a stack of ram chips?