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

Posted by Roblimo on from the beeples-and-booples-and-booples-and-beeples dept.

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?"

28 comments

  1. Please by Mr+D+from+63 · · Score: 1

    Can I get my minute back?

    1. Re:Please by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 1

      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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    2. Re: Please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Cuz you weren't already killing time...

    3. Re:Please by MrBigInThePants · · Score: 0

      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.

    4. Re:Please by MrBigInThePants · · Score: 1

      Mod it down, wont change the truth.

    5. Re:Please by Mr+D+from+63 · · Score: 1

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

    6. Re:Please by is+as+us+Infinite · · Score: 1

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

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    7. Re:Please by PPH · · Score: 1

      Thank you, Slashdot!

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

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    8. Re:Please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What product?

  2. Nine fucking minutes? by ArcadeMan · · Score: 0

    TL;DW

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    1. Re:Nine fucking minutes? by Half-pint+HAL · · Score: 2

      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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    2. Re:Nine fucking minutes? by ArcadeMan · · Score: 1

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

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  3. There are free android apps that do this. by Blue+Stone · · Score: 2

    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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    1. Re:There are free android apps that do this. by psyclone · · Score: 1

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

    2. Re: There are free android apps that do this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, but that the thing in the video is for children's museums, not a consumer product.

    3. Re: There are free android apps that do this. by Half-pint+HAL · · Score: 1

      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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    4. Re: There are free android apps that do this. by Half-pint+HAL · · Score: 1

      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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    5. Re: There are free android apps that do this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's cool you didn't understand the point, bro.

    6. Re: There are free android apps that do this. by Half-pint+HAL · · Score: 1

      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, and then it would be not a museum exhibit, but a build-your-own-instrument-kit.

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  4. OT - Volume control in Slashdot's embedded video? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ok, maybe I'm missing something obvious, but this embedded video (like many others) defaults to full audio volume. Like many, this leads me to rip of the blaring headphones when the video starts. Normally, I curse, then hit pause, and adjust the volume.

    Well unlike Youtube and its ilk, Slashdot video's don't have any embedded volume control? WTF?

    I'll just skip it thank you. From the few comments, doesn't look like I'm missing much...

  5. buffering 4 seconds every 1 second by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    might want to consider getting a different host for the videos, a server that can actually handle demand

    1. Re:buffering 4 seconds every 1 second by Dzimas · · Score: 2

      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.

  6. Is there a way to report this story? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    To people above mods? For starter, for inciting hatred because I really hate Slashdot and their editors after watching this video.

  7. I'm not impressed by trumpetplayer · · Score: 1

    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.

    1. Re: I'm not impressed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You might want to go into porn considering you can blow for 8 hours in one day. You'd be a millionaire!