After a long time in development, Tangent have revealed their all-new control surface for all kinds of color grading apps: The Tangent Wave2. If you have really deep pockets, the new Arc control surface might be worth a closer look, too. The Tangent Wave2 is a direct successor of the almost 10-year old Wave control surface. At NAB 2017 Tangent had a prototype on display but now the Wave2 seems to be ready. Tangent Wave2 Control Surface If you compare the original Wave to the new Tangent Wave2 control surface, you’ll immediatley feel familiar. The Wave2 features some major improvements, though! First of all, it’s way smaller than the original Wave. And, even more importantly, the pickups of the trackerballs are now optical ones. The original Wave panel had mechanical pickups which offered less resolution and were more susceptible to dust. New Tangent Wave2 vs. original Wave panel. The best thing with all the Tangent control surfaces is their platform-agnostic design, though. You can use almost every app which make use of trackerballs, knobs and buttons with these panels. With the free Tangent Mapper software you can map your desired functions to the specific knobs, dials and buttons. There are quite a few pre-designes templates for your favorite apps already. For the Wave2 you can download mappings for Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X, Adobe Speedgrade, Assimilate Scratch and Autodesk Flame for example. Missing something? Yes, that’s one of the downsides with the Tangent Panels: pre-designed templates for DaVinci Resolve...
Published By: CineD - Monday, 14 May, 2018