Mickey Delp Makes 'Walk Up and Play' Electronic Instruments (Video)

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There he was at SXSW with a tableful of beeping and booping electronic (musical) instruments made by his company, Delptronics, surrounded by kids and adults listening to and playing the instruments. One of the adults was Slashdot's Timothy Lord, who pointed his videocam at Mickey and asked (slightly paraphrased), "What's going on here?"

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[Mr D from 63]

Can I get my minute back?

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[wonkey_monkey]

Sure, you can have a full refund of any time and money that you were forced to spend on watching the video.

Oh, wait, that was none.

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[Mr D from 63]

Can I tack on the time spent reading this reply also?

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[is as us Infinite]

Cut your losses and just peace! You'll be waiting for a while for a time refund...

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[MrBigInThePants]

They need to get a clue.

When you are led to believe a video is a really interesting video and it actually turns out to be boring and a thinly veiled attempt at an advertisement it actually TURNS OFF people from the product.

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[MrBigInThePants]

Mod it down, wont change the truth.

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[PPH]

Thank you, Slashdot!

Due to your inability to support HTML5 video properly, I didn't lose the minutes that others are complaining about.

Nine fucking minutes?

[ArcadeMan]

TL;DW

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[Half-pint HAL]

Didn't miss much. It's just another person trying to suggest that step-sequencers are somehow interesting to non-musicians. Even as a musician myself, I quickly find things get muddy and confusing very quickly, as the connection between action and music is so abstract that I never feel like it's me making the noise.

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[ArcadeMan]

FastTracker II seems more interesting than that contraption with dozens of arcade buttons.

There are free android apps that do this.

[Blue Stone]

The video: after about six minutes of pointless waffle, the video shows some kids playing with this, for about five seconds. Then back to the waffle.

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[psyclone]

Watching from 5:00 to 6:00 is perfect, thanks!

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[Half-pint HAL]

Yes, but his point is that the video appears to have no clear point. It's a guy talking about a product without really making it that clear what it is.

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[Half-pint HAL]

Also, museums shouldn't be wasting money on point-to-point wired boutique electronics -- they have a lot of other things to spend money on.

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[Half-pint HAL]

Sorry -- "for museums" is the last refuge of the person who doesn't have a market for his product. Why would the museum want it? Which principles of music does it demonstrate? What point in the history of music technology does it depict? If you can't answer these questions, it's not a product for museums.

All I hear is "step sequencer" and "easy", which is not enough (IMO)

The technology he describes behind the buttons is unnecessary, in that you could do this all with Arduino or Raspberry Pi for less money,

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[Dzimas]

You mean like YouTube or Vimeo? Yeah. That would be too easy.

I just let Mickey Delp know that he was on Slashdot. He's wondering who the hell Raymond is.

I'm not impressed

[trumpetplayer]

I'm a musician. An instrumentalist, to be precise. Today, I've played my instrument for 8 hours including rehearsals, studying routines and repertoire, and a gig. This article is terrible, really really low quality. It's so crap.