I found the Tempera stand but there was queue and then I realized that next to it there was another product I wanted to check: the Track8.
This is a very interesting device. My way to put it is: it’s a DAW without the DAW. Superficially it looks like a retro-sequencer, a device for your maybe retro-electronica-dance music. But already that unusually wide display calls the attention, and a closer look at the functions shows that this is your old piano roll friend with MIDI connectivity left and right, mono and stereo, mic input with even XLR and phantom button.
Unsurprisingly, the Track8 developer explains this better: it’s a song writing tool. And a very interesting and solid one. Sturdy case, the mechanical keyboard keys you still miss from your young life, solid knobs, solid ports. And that display.
For me, one thing that is as interesting as this product is the story of his creator. Colin started to build the Track8 for himself. He is a software developer and after 12 hours in front of a computer screen he had enough. How a.software developer (no matter how good and how much help he subcontracts) ends up with such good hardware product in three years of a hobby project while keeping the full-time job that pays the bills, that is beyond me. He had a vision not just for the functionality he wanted, also the retro style he wanted to coat it on, and (I’m no expert but) I think he nailed it.
PS: if Rust tells you something, this is the programming language that makes this work.
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