Monday, 23 September 2013

Hands-on with the Surface Music Kit, a digital audio workshop aimed at beginners (video)




Hands-on with the Surface Music Kit, a digital audio workshop aimed at beginners (video)
Sep 23rd 2013, 17:48, by Dana Wollman


We were expecting new tablets at today's Microsoft Surface press event, but this? This was a surprise. In addition to unveiling the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2, the company showed off the Surface Remix Project, a special version of the company's Touch Cover keyboard that's specifically meant for music production. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that the Remix Project includes both a Touch Cover and an app (also called the Remix Project) that lets beginners experiment with remixing.
Inside the application, you'll find "stems" (things like the bass track of a song), "clips" (the intro to a pop song, say) and "oneshots," which include sound effects like claps. From there, you can drag and drop the tracks into a workshop area, not unlike the way you'd handle media in a video-cutting program (or any other digital audio workshop, really). What's especially cool is that the Touch Cover here is pressure-sensitive, just like the new Touch Cover 2, so if you want a light drum sound, you can tap it lightly; if you want something more intense, just start mashing it with your fingers. %Gallery-slideshow90006%
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