Dorapro Engineering has posted a prototype of a video for a modular MIDI controller called MINE. It's cool to see elements appear on the companion app as they are inserted into the controller. Unfortunately I can't make any amount of sense out of the website. Google translate is failing hard. One headline literally translates as: "Please be sardine because wearing a technique." There's lots of talk about needing money, but I see no mention of a Kickstarter or whatever.
Wednesday, April 27, 2016 by Tim Webb
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Hi, regular reader from Japan (Native Japanese, professional translator). Just wanted to comment on this cuz I thought it was funny.
I was like "Sardine? What?" but I guess it's this one: "マイコンモジュールの入出力を増やす技を身につけたので言わしてください"
I think the translation for this is "I picked up a technique that allows me to increase the number of inputs and outputs for the micro-controller module, so let me talk about it." Unfortunately the "Talk about" was written in a non-standard dialect, which is a homophone of "sardine".
Right now, it seems like their funding is coming from a Japanese government fund geared towards mid-to-small companies like this one. The guy writing the blog keeps saying "I can make stuff, but I have no idea how to promote them" so they obviously could use a pointer or two. For starters, here is their twitter account.
https://twitter.com/dorapro_MINE
As a non-fish-person I was initially offered by the suggestion that I become a Sardine. But thanks to ryochan999 (above) for clarifying the translation -- I am not offended.
But seriously, modular MIDI sounds very interesting to me, the video is cool but I want to see more. I wish Dorapro much good luck with this.
There are modules like this already on kickstarter that looked to be of high build quality (and probably a corresponding high price). They're calling it Palette, and they were designed for computer photo editing, but consist of sliders and knobs sending standard MIDI.
Wait... did I see them on discchord? I could be reporting something people here already know.
Thank you very much for making sense of both the sardines and the finances, ryochan! This looks cool, so I'm glad to see he's moving forward with it.
@Zen: This morning I was searching the site all over because I knew I'd seen something somewhat similar. I thought I was going crazy. "Did I already report on this?!" Thanks for reminding me of Palette!
Oh ye(click)s th(click)at w(click)orks well(click).