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December 03, 2004
neKo LE Audioworkstation
I associate the letters "LE" with Light Edition, but I'm surmising that there's nothing light about the NeKo LE Audio Workstation. I'm surprised why there's not more of this sort of thing on the market - it's a synth keyboard music workstation with a fully fledged PC inside - complete with full height PCI cards for expansion. With the advent of the mini ITX form factor it all makes pefect sense. It's packing hardware DSP and inbuilt keyboard. What would perplex someone who was.. err.. me however, is the inclusion of the horizontal screen - rather than having the option to tilt it up - it would then stand to reason that you'd have to really literally be working right on top of this to get the most out of it. Also it would want to be the sort that would be easy to read on an angle for fairly obvious reasons.
Transport control and a screen built into a keyboard is a nice idea, and I think what would be nice would be a similar setup so that you can bring your own pc to the party and plug the monitor input into the back. Some people will dig this whole integrated thing, and some... won't. Points to Openlabs for even doing such a thing. It's so 'futurey' and that's enough for me to want it to add to my gadget pile.
Posted by funnelbc at December 3, 2004 11:16 AM
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