I brought it home from NAB in it’s shipping box as a carry-on on the plane. It’s 13 inches long and with the trackerballs in it’s about two inches high. The shipping version of the Ripple will come with a small, cloth draw-string bag for both the panel and the balls to help keep them safe while traveling around. Weighing in at a little over 1 pound the Ripple is light enough to carry around from system to system. The design is slick and it’s easy to move the Ripple out of the way when not in use. No one in their right mind is going to try to wobble the dials on the Ripple but after feeling the construction of the plastic Wave I had to try. The buttons operate with a firm click upon push and the dials do not wobble at all left or right when you try to wobble them. The knobs and buttons on the Wave always seemed to have a bit of play in them but that doesn’t seem to be the case with the Ripple. If you’ve used the older and much larger Wave you may be surprised that the construction of the Ripple feels quite a bit better, and much “tighter” than that of the Wave. The familiar Tangent red balls feel just like those on the Wave and the Element. To get the Ripple’s price down to where it needed to be construction is plastic. It’s a rainy #NABshow return from Vegas today but bringing some product for review /V99Yjed6Xl Who really wants to take all that product back to the UK? The folks at Tangent were kind enough to let me bring a demo unit home for testing and review. There were many Ripples there for attendees to get their hands on and it proved a popular product. The Ripple was announced in 2015 but had it’s coming out party at NAB 2016 as Tangent, for the first time I can remember, had a booth on the show floor (we interviewed them about the Ripple). Tangent has done just that with the $350 Ripple. I think a lot of people used to wonder why no one could come up with a panel that hit at least the sub $500 price point. I had in-depth (audio chat) w/ Tangent about Tangent Ripple $350 grading surface #NABShow Ī couple of years ago the OxygenTec ProPanel came along which at around $800 was the cheapest option yet for dials and balls to use with Resolve (searching for one doesn’t reveal many product results so I don’t know if it’s still available or not). Altogether the Element will set you back just over $3000 but if you want only the track balls and rings, which is arguably the best part of any grading surface, that’s still around $1000. We’ve reviewed both the Wave and the Element here at PVC. Tangent introduced the Element system several years ago which broke the color grading service into a modular system. At $1500 the Wave wasn’t that affordable for most. For many years the Tangent Wave has been the “affordable” color grading surface. Ripple wasn’t always the affordable surface of the bunch. The Tangent Ripple fits nicely onto most any desk and integrates well into most workspaces. It was certainly a workaround as there was no such thing as an affordable color grading surface at the time. I found that it was a quite useful to take a Kensington trackball and use its ability to drag and hold to control the color wheels in Magic Bullet Colorista. This was a time before Resolve was free, before Premiere had Lumetri, and the Color Board was just a gleam in Apple’s eye. Many years ago I wrote an article called Poor man’s color control surface.
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