Snyderphonics is up to something

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Snyderphonics – the company behind the Manta controller – is working on a new multi-purpose device, the MantaMate.

Here’s what Snyderphonics has to say about the MantaMate:

I am working hard on the MantaMate, a device that will allow Manta users to perform without a computer, and to directly control analog synthesizers.

It will also be a powerful general-purpose converter between USB devices, MIDI devices, OSC over ethernet, and control voltage (supporting several voltage standards from Eurorack to Buchla to Moog to Serge to Korg).

It even has a built-in digital synthesizer, so that it’s possible to perform with only the Manta and a MantaMate.

There’s no set release date, but it sounds exciting, stay tuned

The Manta:

The first Snyderphonics product is the Manta, a touch-sensitive interface for controlling music or video.   Each sensor in the hexagonal array knows exactly how much surface area your finger is covering, and this data can be routed to any audio or video parameter you choose.

For instance, you could assign each sensor to a note in a musical scale, and route the surface-area data from each sensor to control the volume of that particular note. Play a chord, and you can control the volume of the different notes of the chord independently with your fingers. Alternatively, you could set each sensor to correspond to a video file, and fade between videos dynamically with your fingers.

The Manta also outputs centroid data to turn the Manta into a large X-Y multitouch surface, for applications that don’t require discrimination between discrete sensors. For instance, you could have the Y axis be pitch, the X axis be timbre, and the size of the point of contact (determined by whether you have your finger or your whole hand on the surface) be the volume of the note, and have a very hands-on performance synthesizer.

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