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New App Lets You Play Piano on the MacBook Pro's Touch Bar
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Musicians will be Chopin at the bit for this.
There's no going Bach once you've played it.
Another in a long Liszt of magical innovations.
There's no going Bach once you've played it.
Another in a long Liszt of magical innovations.
How is it irrelevant? You said future improvements and this app came out. Have you seen any app that is useful enough with the touchbar and improves workflow? I am checking if you have any brilliant ideas about the future use of this magic touchbar. This touchbar is being called gimmicky for a reason. Check the hundreds of reviews who have tested it and said that the touchbar doesn't improve anything and in fact might slow people down because you have to look down and away from the screen.
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Did the inventor of the fork charge so much for a proof of concept and did you need to buy some adapters for it to work?
Lots of people who use FCPX have said that the way it displays the timeline of your project while you work is really useful.
Regardless, it's irrelevant because obviously a full-fledged piano is not the main kind of quick action that a function key replacement is designed for. So we don't even need to know what useful functions it has to know that this specific example is not worthy of using to judge the functionality of the touch bar.
God, this is just so simple and obvious. I wonder why you're struggling to understand.
humor isn't yours, isn't it?Looks handy. I'm sure all the pro musicians are dying to get this machine...
Wow! Finally, a feature that makes purchasing a top of the line MacBook worth the price.
Most MacBook Pro apps that have implemented support for the new Touch Bar have focused on putting settings, editing tools, and other utilitarian features right at a user's fingertips, but a new app from developer Graham Parks aims to have a little more fun with it.
The "Touch Bar Piano" app is designed to turn the Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro into a little tiny touch-based piano that can be used to make music.
Available on Parks' website, Touch Bar Piano is fully polyphonic and offers 128 instruments to play with. It only works with the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, but Touch Bar emulator Touché can be used to try it out if you don't have one of Apple's latest MacBook Pros.
Touch Bar Piano doesn't exactly follow Apple's developer guidelines, which say the Touch Bar should be used as an extension of the keyboard and the trackpad rather than a display, but it's a fun way to show off what the new MacBook Pro can do.
Article Link: New App Lets You Play Piano on the MacBook Pro's Touch Bar
Common sense isn't a skill for these members. Just whining and Steve Jobs worshipping.
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Make my arms hurt. No precision. Terrible UI.
Must start from somewhere. Its a future but first u have to try it. Thats what tb is
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Maybe battery concern. V2 might be wider
So your defense is to end your statement with stupid statements? This example shows how stupid the bar is. It was not created to be useful but more as a joke. Not sure if Apple is paying you or just too much coolaid.
This is on the front page of MacRumours simply because there's no good news in regards to the 2016 MacBook Pro.
edit: I guess it's side news. Still, I guess this is newsworthy, because Apple clearly has lost its way with its priorities.
edit: I guess it's side news. Still, I guess this is newsworthy, because Apple clearly has lost its way with its priorities.
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Good lord you've just been crapping on Apple in every news story today. Don't you have something better to do?
Geez the iPad Pro is making more and more sense for many people
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Sorry could not resist...the irony
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Sorry could not resist...the irony
After burying my iMac 27 inch - yesterday evening (GPU failure) I realized I spent so much money on Apple products.... MBP 2008 died - GPU Failure, MBP 2011 GPU Failure.... now the iMac....
I am done spending money I don't have, on Apple products....
I wanted to buy this new MBP.... too expensive.... costs me 2 and half salaries... Not worth... so I can what??? play piano?
I am a photographer... looking for better alternatives that's for sure.
I am done spending money I don't have, on Apple products....
I wanted to buy this new MBP.... too expensive.... costs me 2 and half salaries... Not worth... so I can what??? play piano?
I am a photographer... looking for better alternatives that's for sure.
You're saying touch bar is not a gimmick? Sure, there is that Touch ID thingy but that's as far as it goes. Hey, touch bars gimmick factor is so high that most likely it was licensed from Samsung...
If Apple wanted to do something "Pro" useful they would have had fully customisable OLED keyboard like Optimus Maximus. Gamers and Pro's would have loved it. But hey, now we have that tiny piano on keyboards top row which is surely way better...
I'm in the club of "never bring touch to the screen". There are good reasons to keep touch in dedicated devices where touch can be extremely interactive and practical. On a notebook / laptop computer, it's just annoying, your hand is in the way, when you watch someone reach for their screen and touch, you see this big 'ol hand in front of the screen, duh ! I don't like it.
Touch is great on an iPad Air or iPad Pro, easy to wipe off smudges and finger prints, on a computer, it want to keep the screen clean and clear. Improve the track pad constantly and make it more amazing every time and that's great.
Even having said that though, touch and text is still really terrible an experience, especially word documents or just selecting and copying text on a site, it's not great, I end up selecting everything on a page, it's not useful, I sill need to use a Bluetooth keyboard to get more work done better.
Touch is great on an iPad Air or iPad Pro, easy to wipe off smudges and finger prints, on a computer, it want to keep the screen clean and clear. Improve the track pad constantly and make it more amazing every time and that's great.
Even having said that though, touch and text is still really terrible an experience, especially word documents or just selecting and copying text on a site, it's not great, I end up selecting everything on a page, it's not useful, I sill need to use a Bluetooth keyboard to get more work done better.
Oops, you made the mistake again. Sad.
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Yes, I'm literally saying it isn't a gimmick. I know that's a novel concept on this bitch fest of a forum, but there ya go.
Wow. This is apple's big innovation for their professional level products. What a joke. Apple's good days are behind them.
Less moving of the mouse to triggering things after you've typed on a minute by minute basis.
Really nice interaction to change things which usually involve clicking and dragging the mouse, like brush sizes of aligning objects.
Using BetterTouchTool the launching of commands which would usually take many button press or entire automated scripts. Show/Hide files with the press of a "button", create a new file (ala windows) at the press of a button. I've even programmed a button which opens terminal, logs into my AWS server and runs yum update with one press.
And it's not even the best thing on the new MacBook Pro.
And this is useful how?
There were keyboard piano apps for the PC beeper on the XT, and they started to sound adequate since the sound blaster on a 386, ...
Also looks flimsy to use, with no tactical feedback between the keys, ...
There were keyboard piano apps for the PC beeper on the XT, and they started to sound adequate since the sound blaster on a 386, ...
Also looks flimsy to use, with no tactical feedback between the keys, ...
Seems like one of those useless geewhiz type of things you can do. Its kind of cool to see on a youtube video, but its actual practical usage is absent.
If anything this kind of reinforces the gimicky feeling of the touch bar for me.
If anything this kind of reinforces the gimicky feeling of the touch bar for me.
I don't think anyone is hating on the developer....they are hating on how useless and inconvenient the TouchBar is.