New Music Gear Monday: The O-Bow

Controllers just don't get enough love. In the hands of an expert, they can really bring a MIDI or virtual instrument to life. A good example is the O-Bow, which is short for optical bow. It's a way to achieve some real life string articulations using a real bow. While is this still a prototype (the 5th one actually), it holds a lot of promise. Below is a very short clip of the latest version, but here's a link to a longer clip of the first prototype that shows a bit more of what it's capable of.

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