Novation Launchpad. These controllers are designed for Ableton Live and reflect the state of the session view on their button matrix, giving you direct access to the mixer and plugin parameters. They just feel like a hardware extension of the Live GUI instead of some generic controller you have to program MID assignments for in order to bring it to life. If you're into that, you can still do it with these new breed of controllers. But if you don't want to mess around with MIDI messages, sysex strings and such, you can just plug it in and use your software like you know it - using hardware.
On the other hand the whole experimental touchscreen and multitouch stuff as already seen in the Lemur controller literally exploded because of the iPhone and more recently the iPad. The mass market will catch on and multitouch soon will be part of the feature set of standard computer operating systems - and despite the lack of tactile feedback, a touchscreen brings total freedom of how your interface should look and behave. Thus when it comes to producing music on a computer I still expect major steps in the whole interface development as it has the most room for improvements. And personally I'm very curious about new ways to interact with the latest technology instead of just trying to emulate the look and feel of studio equipment from last century.
The other next big step, just as we've discussed before in this series, will be the whole internet and community topic and how it affects being a musician and teaming up with others. This will be very exciting too, but on the other hand I'm afraid that the real killer applications in this regard are not just around the corner at the moment and will still take some time experimenting what the user wants, what can be done, what is reasonable and - most important - what will be the most fun way to use it.
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