Yesterday, while looking for tablet hacks, I found this neat program which allows you to create music with my wacom tablet. It’s basically a midi controller and a theremin. It’s pretty interesting to play with. I mean more reason to buy a tablet right? Here’s a more in depth collection which includes programs for mac and windows.

The Wmidi

This program allows you to do many things. It has a collection of 128 instruments and numerous scales from Japanese Ichikosuko to the major scales. The tone also ranges from C-2 to C8. How loud the tone is depends on the pressure you’re giving the tablet. You can also use it to control midi from other programs. Manipulating using colors from an image, the tilt, pressure and angle. And hey, it’s free. How much better can it be?

The Theremin

The theremin is a pretty basic program. You don’t have as much control of it as you do with Wmidi. But dang the sound is cool. Who says tablet are only for artist(as in digital drawing)? It’s for “artist”(as in all artist including musician)

Demo

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=WTEINiGGogI[/youtube]

P.S

If you’re wondering if I went ahead and did the hack, I did. I short circuited my LCD by accident. T.T

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