DAN KRISHER: Hi. My name is Dan Krisher, and you're at the Winter NAMM 2006 show, and I'm going to be showing you Motiondive. Motiondive is a totally unique for Roland. Motiondive is a realtime video control package, giving you realtime performance of video.

Just like DJs in the past have always had realtime control of audio with their DJ mixers, Motiondive combines the idea, being able to control video just like a DJ does with music but with the same sort of controls that a DJ would have but would work with video, so you can use Motiondive if you're a DJ, combine it with your DJ set and be able to mix video live at your set. If you're a band, you can use Motiondive and be able to take and trigger and design video along with your live show. You can even use it if you're doing a presentation in your office. If you have a worship event, Motiondive can work in situations like that as well.

Let me show you how it works. The way it's set up is you got a control surface that's very much like a DJ mixer, and like a DJ mixer, where you have on one side music and the other side you got music clips, on the Motiondive console, what you're doing is you're controlling different video clips. So, on my A side, I can take and I can choose different clips. On my B side, I can use a console to choose different clips as well back and forth. So, I got slider function. I can also take and I can scratch video just like a DJ, switch between both sides from the console and then I even have control over the speed. I can reverse clips, slow them down, forward and reverse on both sides, same type of control. Then I have realtime control also of different sorts of visual elements as well, so if I want to take and have a transition, I have that built in. There's transitions for video. You can take it and you can control any type of the hue, chromo, color balance, any sort of video feature you can control directly from the Motiondive console, all right?

To give you an idea of how you would use this live, I've got a music track here and we'll just work with a little bit of music so here we go. I can use my mouse to pull up different clips if I want or again I can use the console itself, okay? Either way I can go.

Now, if I want to, I can use the console but I can also use a MIDI controller. Any MIDI controller you can take and control the Motiondive software, so check it out. I've got a keyboard controller. My black keys change my different organization -- clips, my clips library, and then my other side, my white keys will actually choose different clips so real time I can start jamming to the music from my keyboard controller, add a transition, go to my other side, use my slider to choose over to a different bank of clips, so as I'm playing I got my different clips going.

Let's say I want to take now and while my video is playing I can also take and I can add text as well, so my name's Dan, so I'm your DJ for the night, DJ, show, and again you can combine different ways that you can tailor your sequences as well, all this again in real time.

So, what you get when you purchase this package is you get the Motiondive console, you get the Motiondive software. The software comes with about 4 GB of video clips to get you started, and the video that Motiondive runs is common consumer video formats, anything from Quicktime standard videos, MPEG4, AVI clips, anything that pretty much you can generate from a PC or Mac you can use in Motiondive, so it's available to you, so if you're in a band and you want to put together your own live music video, you can do that. You can take a digital movie camera, shoot some clips of your band, edit them in let's say Quicktime Pro or if you're using a Mac in iMovie, and then drop them into Motiondive, and right off the bat you've got realtime video that you can use live on stage. If you're a DJ, the same sort of thing.

Also, Motiondive will work with still images, JPEGs. It'll also work with Flash movies as well so all sorts of different types of media can be used and you can use them in conjunction with your music tracks. There's a music player built in by the way, and there's also a macro function so as I'm working, if I want to take and I want to set up certain moves that I'm doing with my console or certain series of clips, I can use the macro function to memorize those for me so I can recall them in a performance situation.

So that's Motiondive. So Motiondive again is the controller itself, the software, all of this. The manufacturer suggested retail price for this is $599 for this package, and again it runs on both PC and Mac.

I'm Dan Krisher. This is the 2006 Winter NAMM Show. If you come down, you should check out Motiondive. Thanks.