Open Labs Exclusive Interview

Nicholas O'Toole

- by Tatiana Ryckman, Open Labs Staff Writer

Nick O'Toole didn't know he was looking for something special. He was convinced it already existed. And though it did – it wasn't what he expected.

Writing the music along his quest like the score for the movie of his life, Nick searched for a simple MIDI keyboard controller that just happened to also have a trackball and QWERTY keyboard. He found himself frustrated with the heap of individual pieces he was being asked to settle for in its place. He worked like a mad scientist, toiling between pieces of digital audio recording equipment and their cables. “I thought it was really stupid that nobody had built a MIDI controller with a QWERTY and trackball built ...