Control your Universe - Two Cool Human User Interfaces

Here are a couple of really cool user control devices. First the Optimus Maximus keyboard. Every key of the Optimus Maximus keyboard is a stand-alone display showing the function with which the key is associated. What does that mean? 113 individual OLED displays with a resolution of 48x48 pixels and 16 bit color. The pictures show a light on dark configuration, which is easy on the eyes and perfect for illuminating a keyboard in a dark theatre. With eack key being a display the options are limitless for creating custom key looks for triggering sound effects, showing short-cuts for your DAW or playback software. There are so many possibilities.

Then theres the Jazz Mutant Lemur interface:

The Lemur is a top of the range control surface for audio and media applications, that breaks from the prior art on several grounds. Its major innovation consists in its brilliant modular graphic interface concept and its exclusive multitouch sensor technology. The continiously growing palette of configurable graphic objects enables you to design made-to-measure interfaces by using the free available JazzEditor. This endows the Lemur with the unique and protocol independant capacity to adapt its behavior according to the application you are controlling: sequencers, modular synthesizers, virtual instruments, VJ software, 3D animation tools and light control.

It does a lot and has the capabilities to work with may well knows DAW and music creation programs such as Logic(tm), Protools(tm), Ableton Live(tm), Nuendo(tm), Cubase(tm), Sonar(tm) or Digital Performer(tm). It uses OSC (Open Sound Control) which is 'a protocol for communication among computers, sound synthesizers, and other multimedia devices that is optimized for modern networking technology' to interface with Reaktor, Max/MSP, Audiomulch, SuperCollider, Pure Data or Bidule and any other OSC compliant device including Meyer Sound's LCS system.

Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard
Jazz Mutant Lemur Interface