UPDATED WITH ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPHS AT THE BOTTOM!

UPDATE 2 - New Photo showing relative size of the panel at the very bottom.

Thanks to Tangent Designs for letting me introduce this to you guys. I saw the prototype at NAB this past April as of today, Tangent introduces the new Element Control Surface. As you can see, it’s a very sweet modular design that feels like finely honed steel or aluminum. Very beautiful design. These are the final 3D renderings just prior to production.

As you can see, very modular in design and according to Tangent, you can outfit this unit any way you please. As long as the software host supports it, you’ll be able to add extra panels of knobs, buttons and trackballs.

For a little more on my impressions of the unit, see my previous blog entry about the unit. I’ll do a full review once we receive a production unit for testing.

UPDATE! The folks at Tangent Design sent me these actual photographs of the production units. As you can see the renderings were pretty darn accurate. Sweetness!

UPDATE 2 - Here’s a photo from the Tangent Design folks giving you a relative sense of the size of the units. They’re much smaller than you might think from the original pictures. Note the mini Apple keyboard and the iMac in the picture. Thanks to Chris and Andy for sending the picture along from the IBC Show Floor.