I made my first controller in 1999 out of plywood, a hacked computer keyboard, and anything else I could find at the time at my local Radio Shack. It looked pretty sad and I used it to run visuals using Director and I called it the Editar.
I made my first controller in 1999 out of plywood, a hacked computer keyboard, and anything else I could find at the time at my local Radio Shack. It looked pretty sad and I used it to run visuals using Director and I called it the Editar.
A year later I made a newer version of it with plexiglass, added MIDI, started using Max/MSP (with a little help from nn and Nato), and renamed it the Viditar.
Shortly after this image Wired piece I hooked up with Peter to help with the software, and met Travis at a show while opening for Stone Sour in Houston, and Livid was created (in theory at least). We started making controllers together at that point, but simply for my performing, and in 2003 we officially started Livid. After a few years of prototyping and software development we built up our own manufacturing shop in Austin, Texas where we make everything with the same kind of tools and care you would see at a guitar manufacturing shop.
We are very pleased to announce the birth of block, our latest product in our line of real instrument grade control surfaces. Block is the little sister of the Ohm64 controller, housed in a compact ‘block’ and fits into a backpack. I actually did a demo last weekend in Brooklyn at Moldover’s release party and put it in my backpack with my laptop. Block will be available Nov 1st for $399 USD. More I made my first controller in 1999 out of plywood, a hacked computer keyboard, and anything else I could find at the time at my local Radio Shack. It looked pretty sad and I used it to run visuals using Director and I called it the Editar.details here.
A year later I made a newer version of it with plexiglass, added MIDI, started using Max/MSP (with a little help from nn and Nato), and renamed it the Viditar.
Shortly after this Wired piece I hooked up with Peter to help with the software, and met Travis at a show while opening for Stone Sour in Houston, and Livid was created (in theory at least). We started making controllers together at that point but simply for my performing, and in 2003 we officially started Livid. After a few years of prototyping and software development we built up our own manufacturing shop in Austin, Texas where we make everything with the same kind of tools and care you would see at a guitar manufacturing shop.
We are very pleased to announce the birth of block, our latest product in our line of real instrument grade control surfaces. Block is the little sister of the Ohm64 controller, housed in a compact ‘block’ and fits into a backpack. I actually did a demo last weekend in Brooklyn at Moldover’s release party and put it in my backpack with my laptop. Block will be available Nov 1st for $399 USD. More details here.
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