Once upon a time the technology industry liked to invent new and amazing things. Then came the web and, with one or two exceptions that pretty much came to a halt and in it's place came a variety of social hacks and, well, shops. Nothing wrong with that, per se, but technology very much took a back seat.

Anyway, in the middle of this drought comes the first sign of rain - the first genuinely amazing technology I've seen for ages: Direct Note Access from Celemony. Very much the produce of mathematics and effort combined, if it works half as well the the linked presentation suggests ....

Available in August, apparently. Bring it on, I have dozens of pieces of music to butcher.